Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
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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
#2 - :iconpastachan415: =PastaChan415 #97 http://gyazo.com/ed9cd42a6db6852445a9238d2e97a10d
#3 - :iconanichan7: *anichan7 #1069 http://gyazo.com/c13f0ba1315169bd8c3535e8f3c39b6a
#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
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Draw My Naruto OC Contest!!!
Manku Urakami
Shippuuden – right outfit

colors take from here http://tonemi.deviantart.com/art/Manku-Urakami-345814033
Pre Shippuuden

Her pairing Sora - http://s001.radikal.ru/i193/1305/de/d7f6152c3bc8.png
I want join! What I'll do?
If you want join:
*READ A RULES.
*I don't do some list of contest members, if you want draw for my contest, just do it!
*MOORE CREATIVITY!

*Send me link in finished draw here in comments, or in notes.
*I'll put your draw in *Entries
*Congratulations! Your' a member! :iconimsrspervplz:
Rules

Draw my Naruto OC Manku Urakami. It's can be all thet u want, fan art, face screenshots, couple art or else.

ART must be drawd for my contest! Not commission for me, not AT's, only new and your draws.

No base! No trace! Only own draws!

You may enter only one draw for every contest c

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!

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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

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

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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

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

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
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Hello everyone =Alex-Blaszczynski here.

For a while now we have been wanting to update our logo, and after some discussion we decided that the best way to get a new one is to host a contest!
Our current logo was designed by ~cgaratl who won our last logo contest
So all you logo and icon designers get ready because here are the details for #Digital-Art-Club's 2012 logo contest!

What we are looking for
Digital art club is in need of a new logo for the group to use across a variety of projects (facebook page, Stock Packs, tutorials +more) as well as for our groups avatar.
We will be using the avatar in future commercial projects so please bear in mind that by entering this contest you are giving us the rights to use the design in those commercial projects.

The brief
The logo needs to be a vector

It needs to either have DAC or Digital Art Club in the design (does not have to be the focus)

Can be in either CMYK or RGB

Should look modern

Should be relevant to the group (ie digital, art, design)

We require a black version + a white version

needs to work in a 100px 50px avatar (you can have an alternate version of the logo that is specifically for the avatar)

Please refrain from making animated logos. :3

We trust your creativity so we aren't putting up too many restrictions
also i have said this before but thank you to everyone who participated in the last contest
it made me really happy to see a lot of you join in anyway back to the main topic.

Rules

No racist or religious symbols

You can submit as many designs as you want.

Only one design will win

Make sure each submission has both the black and white version on it.

You MUST include a 100x50px version in your submissions (remember it can be an alternate version)

To clear a couple of things up about the black and white versions of the logo, what we meant by that is that we want you to present your logo in a way similar to this image.

And now for the part that you have all been waiting for.
PRIZES!
I am donating the prizes again, i will ask the other staff to donate some stuff if they can.

Prizes

1st place

4800 points or 24 months premium from =Alex-Blaszczynski

3 months premium membership from *AF-studios

in depth Feature in =Alex-Blaszczynski's journal (which will be hosted on #Digital-Art-Club's page as well)

feature in *AF-studios journal

A feature on the Digital Art Club Facebook Page

Permanent credits on the #Digital-Art-Club page linking to your profile.

2nd place

1 month premium membership from =Alex-Blaszczynski

1 month premium membership from *AF-studios

feature in *AF-studios journal

A feature on the Digital Art Club Facebook Page

Feature in =Alex-Blaszczynski's journal (which will be hosted on #Digital-Art-Club's page as well)

There is no 3rd place this time guys :3

Contest dates

Contest starts from today (19/10/2012)

Submissions Open 25/10/2012 (Submissions now Open)

Submissions Close 5/12/2012

Winners chosen by staff by 10/12/2012

Make sure you submit to the "Digital Art Club Logo Contest" folder.

Staff feature
The staff feature is now live, every time I update or release a journal i will be featuring one of our staff members to thank them for their hard work.

*AF-studios. Ana Fagarazzi
Ana Fagarazzi is the amazing woman who brought #Digital-Art-Club to life back in 2007. She carefully chose her staff and over time gathered a wide range of members.
Ana has been a great attribute to the Deviantart community, providing free resources for people to use,hosting give-aways, as well as putting a lot of her time and money into this group which has now become the largest digital art based group on deviantart!.

As an artist Ana has impressed critics from around the world with her amazing talent for photo manipulation and digital painting, she is an adobe certified expert and has worked on numerous commercial projects as well as having her work displayed in magazines such as Advanced Photoshop and Creative Photoshop.

Ana's Website: AF Studios

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*donmalo Oct 22, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

Hmmm - interesting discussion here…
But to be honest - I didn't get the point out of it. If the founders made the decision to update the logo - why not give it a shot. The option to get back to the old logo is still there.
Changing a logo is always a huge task and have its pro and cons at the same time. And in my opinion its absolutely necessary to change a logo from time to time. Why . its simple - maybe the philosophy has changed, the entire look must be changed or if its just to bring a forum to the future. Things changing day by day, especially it comes down to a graphical or visual look.
If we are not willing to do that - we still would wear white socks and neon colored stuff, because it was cute in the 80's…

Not sure if I'm happy with those common "crowd sourcing" thing when it comes to logo design or as we call corporate design. Corporate is one of the upper level when it comes to graphic design. This contains much more then just a logo…
but again - thats just my humble opinion.

to make it short - give the new logo contest a shot. And if the new logo looks impressive, go ahead with that and if not - keep the old one.
So both ways will be a win-win situation.

best

*thomasVanDijk Oct 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Have you, the staff, considered asking us, the people? And did you realise how stuck up it sounds what you you just said?

*AF-studios Oct 21, 2012

What exactly did he say Thomas?

*thomasVanDijk Oct 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

"Because we, the staff, believe that it is time to update our logo."

Sounds like they're all high and mighty when he says "we, the staff".

*AF-studios Oct 21, 2012

I think he was just pointing out who made the decision. As much as I love our members and respect the community opinion, the decision is ours to make. Nothing wrong with current loge, I personally love it and find it simple yet creative, and memorable as well. But change can be good, and if you can change something to better, and host a competive, fun contest with a nice prize list...then why not.

=Alex-Blaszczynski Oct 21, 2012 Digital Artist

Kinda confused as how you came to that conclusion.
I was just stating who "we" are. i mean if i just say "we decided" it could mean anyone decided. It's just how i was taught to write by my English teachers in high school.

On the note of asking the people, we try to include the dac community in nearly all our decisions, however some decisions are made by the staff independently. However even though the initial decision to get a new logo was made by the staff we are involving the community by hosting this contest and giving people the opportunity to have their work featured and chosen.

~kiwioh Oct 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

In moments like these, I wish there was a "like"-button on dA

~DTKinetic Oct 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Cool update, and I like features from this club

=kiko11 Oct 19, 2012 Student

_{I may give this a try!}

~IamAgine Oct 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Give it a look... About Digital Art Club... [link]
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