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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
Samples of my pixel icons:

10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
Good luck guys

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
#1 - :iconstellarhohoemi: =stellarhohoemi #145 http://gyazo.com/3c85275328e20e9c29b4df497496a3be
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#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
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Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
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i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
• you must be (or can become) a watcher of mine
• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
after you comment i will reply with a number and i will choose the winner using http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/
GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
have fun! CC:

Someone left $20 in an envelope at Fanime''
Hey guys!

Fanime was amazing but it totally left me sick for weeks

after I got better, I went through the letters I got and found one that had nothing but $20 and a note describing one of my posters. It looked like someone made a mistake and accidentally gave me their money without getting a poster. I want to return that money so If it was you, please e-mail me at Yuumei.yan@gmail.com with your name and address.

In other news, I will be at Anime Expo at table A24 and A25

Hopefully the Knite books will be ready by then!

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Ka-Blam or not Ka-Blam?

Fri Sep 4, 2009, 6:23 PM

OKAY! I'm in the process of researching more efficient ways to print up the continuing MCL chapters and have heard of Ka-Blam Digital Printing, which specializes in comicbook printing.

I know that there are at least a few peeps that watch me on DA that have used it, care to share your info/experiences with Ka-Blam? Am really interested about quality, customer service and such, as the prices are really good compared to what it'd be to print it myself via Staples and assemble it by hand (which would be a complete pain in the ass if I working with a starting run of 50+ copies >,< D'OH!! )

So yea...any input would be great...or at least suggestions for other comparable places (excluding Lulu.com, as their pricing leaves no room for profit! >,< UGH!)

Thank you muchly!

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TOKYOPOP'S Rising Stars of Manga Vol. 2 - AVAILABLE NOW! from most bookstores, amazon.com, tokyopop.com, etc. *Features Bettina's winning entry Axis Lumen*
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ANIME BOSTON - May 2009 - Artists Alley/Panels
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~Powdered-Kitty Oct 13, 2009

Glad to hear you taking MCL back!
Sorry, can't be of much help here. But I hope whichever one you decide to go with serves you well. I just wanted to give you encouragement ^^
Love to hear how it turns out :3

~tinkerbelcky Sep 7, 2009 Professional General Artist

I read a great blog post on Ka-Blam a little while ago: [link]

Hope that helps. It'd be great to be able to continue to read MCL!

*DreamworldStudio Sep 8, 2009 Professional General Artist

Oh WOW!

Thanks so much dear!! ^______^<3 That DEFINITELY helps out, especially when it helps me get one step further towards continuing MCL on my own! XDehehe

~lucydarkwood Sep 6, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

I think it depends on whether or not you're doing color interiors or black and white... I've had friends with positive and negative experiences with kablam! - mostly my wariness on them would be regarding their turn around time, which near conventions can be worrisome.

As far as Lulu goes - I've seen some poor interior art quality come out of there, as they are in essence a POD book printing company and not a comics printer.

When I get things printed, I go through a private small press printer called APEX. I priced it out on a book (using Kablam and a few others) and found that they were only $20 more than Kablam, and the reason for that is they send a proof to you ahead of time on the first run of a book. (Subsequent runs cost only book and shipping costs, which put them in at cheaper than Kablam)

The customer service is going to be superior on a small place like that. I like Apex because they do it ALL in house, so my sales rep can go yell at the pre-press department when review our proof.

If you're interested, they are here:
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*DreamworldStudio Sep 8, 2009 Professional General Artist

It'll be all b&w interior art with colour cover, so yea, helps keep the pricing down for sure!

Since I've worked with prepping art for printing in b&w, I've plenty of expertise on what works and what doesn't with b&w work, so am all set there...the one thing I've noticed is exactly that! Their turn around time is FAR longer than I had expected, but if I plan ahead well enough, I think I can make it work...and it'd keep me from waiting till last minute to get everything done as well XD;;;

Yea, same here for Lulu...that and the base pricing is RIDICULOUS even for a 32 paged comic! >,< so yea, no way I'm working/printing with them

Apex looks pretty good...but I think I like how Ka-Blam specializes in comicbook printing as oppose to general all around printing. THanks anyways! ^_^

~lucydarkwood Sep 8, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

No problem. ^_^

Let me know how Ka-Blam does with your order, I'll be curious to see their long-term track record.

~rekka Sep 5, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I've used Lulu for my b/w printings of SkyFall, but now that my next one is going color I decided to give Ka-Blam a try. The prices seemed very reasonable (especially for color) and the quality looks good. You could always do a single order of the proof copy and see how it looks before you release it?

!some-art-bum Sep 5, 2009 Hobbyist

A university class I took once did some printing through it for our final project (it was a sequential art class). While I didn't deal with them personally I've been impressed by the quality of the finished project. (I own that and also another comic printed by an online artist--impressed with both.)

Would it be helpful to you if I tried to get photos or a scan of either of the products?

*DreamworldStudio Sep 8, 2009 Professional General Artist

Thanks for the input dear!

Tis definitely great to hear so far that Ka-Blam is a good place to get comics printed ^_^V

Actually, they do have an option to order a sample of their printing products, so I can easily do that, so no worries about scanning and getting photos...thanks aways!

*NCWeber Sep 4, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I know

does all his at Lulu, and they come out great. The one time that there was a printing error, Lulu straightened it out real fast. I was impressed with their customer service. And the quality of their work is very nice for comics.

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