[x]

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

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!
******************************update!**********************************'
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!

Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules

You can enter as many times as you want.

No shading required

You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808

Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!

The character needs to be full body.

try to fill as much as the shape as possible!

You can not alter the shape.

you can not draw outside the shape!
If you want to enter, you choose between the shapes linked under. You can however do all of them if you want to!
Lineart only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/tttt-1_zpsed0fbbf4.png
Shape only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/llll-2_zps87cb9751.png
And then you draw the character you choose inside the shape as best you c

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???
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
_________________________________________________
Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

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.

[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
#5 - :iconSaKetosan: ~SaKetosan #1055 http://gyazo.com/f619d82896957ab4794d367f23a31e9c
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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

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:

Browse More Like This

more ▶

Featured in Groups:

#swfc
Star Wars Fan Club

#We-Love-Star-Wars
... a lot

#TheJediTemple

#Star-Wars-Elite
For the Fans, By the Fans

Details

Submitted: November 3, 2012

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 14
Favourites: 7 [who?]
Views: 656 (0 today)

[x]

Thoughts on Disney Buying Lucasfilm...

by ~GahmahRaan, Nov 3, 2012, 2:56:29 PM
Journals / Personal

I'm sure all of you have heard the news by now.

I actually do see some potential for Star Wars: Episode VII to actually be good now that George Lucas is just a creative consultant, and I'm not worried about Disney toning it down at all (hell, even Disney's been known for tackling darker subjects in this day in age). I don't even think later seasons of The Clone Wars will be toned down if it makes a channel hop to Disney XD (word of advice if it does: pick a suitable timeslot; the series has gotten darker every season). Considering how well The Avengers turned out, I don't see any reason to be panicking yet so long as they don't interfere in the creative process. And there's also recent movies like Wreck-It Ralph. If anything, it can't get worse than the Holiday Special.

What most of us are on edge about is the fate of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. A lot of us are worried that 30 years worth of lore will be undone since it takes place after Episode VI. Well, that's why we have Leland Chee (AKA the continuity guy) around. The EU has never been a hard-and-fast canon (you could basically say it's all licensed fanfiction in the first place), and parts of it are inevitably undone whenever a new story is written (whether it's by Lucasfilm or not). Besides, I'm not that sensitive retcons, and as a fanfic writer myself, I know it's almost impossible to keep up with all of the EU (and some parts of it aren't that great or notable in the first place. *cough*The Crystal Star*cough*). In the case that it contradicts a lot of the post-ROTJ lore, I see it becoming its own separate timeline, kind of like how it works in Marvel and DC comics.

Overall, I'm keeping an open mind about this.

As for the fate of the Paranormalities trilogy, it's just another fanfic in the end, and Episode VII's not coming out for at least two years. I'll probably be finished with it before then, and if two continuities are created, it'll be part of the EU timeline since it does take place after the New Jedi Order books (even if storywise, you won't need to have any knowledge of the Star Wars EU to enjoy Paranormalities since it relies mostly on original characters and concepts).

14 Comments

Listening to: Video Game Soundtracks
Reading: Articles
Watching: Cartoons
Playing: Video games

Thoughts on Disney Buying Lucasfilm...by ~GahmahRaan

Journals / Personal

*Sir-Saboteur Nov 6, 2012

My thoughts are that of great concern. On one hand they may keeps with how star wars is and always has been and it will continue to prosper and be enjoyable, but on the other Disney might screw it up like they have with other things, I do not want a Disneyfied star wars. I really hope its the first one.

~GahmahRaan Nov 6, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Anything is possible. While I don't find the idea of Disneyfying Star Wars likely, it's also good to be cautious.

Again, only time will tell.

*Sir-Saboteur Nov 11, 2012

Yep, all we can do is wait and wish for the best.

~LittleFoxStudio Nov 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Finally someone who's not nerdraging about all this. "Ruining my childhood!" Really? How? The next movies could be incredible. I don't remember seeing Mickey Mouse cross overs into the Avengers. This is meant to breathe new life into the saga, and it will.

~Blue-Lupus Nov 5, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

And there are still morons around here who literally believe that the next movie will feature Mickey Mouse. So let's hate GL and Disney, yeah?

World is full of brainless idiots.

And well, the new movie can turn out even interesting. At least we have something to wait for!

~Lightning-Powered Nov 4, 2012 General Artist

I'm not even worried about anything. George makes me sad, that's all.

~JediSenshi Nov 4, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

I just hope they don't kill off the power trio.

=Mileable Nov 4, 2012 Student General Artist

Expanded universe...... My thoughts exactly! They can't just ignore the fact that all of these awesome characters are sitting there ready to be introduced. I mean who doesn't want to learn more about Mara or the solo siblings or Ben if they don't then they r crazy people

~UlitmaSephiroth Nov 4, 2012

Whilst I may not be the dude to go for in terms of Post ROTJ stuff I do know about several of the bigger arcs in the SW universe like the Vong war and the Second Civil war. Those kinds of arcs in general should be kept around and if the movie actually goes for those arcs even better

~IdleTeen Nov 4, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I think it's a Godsend for Star Wars fans. Disney has a reputation of making good movies and George Lucas isn't directing this time around. And people who aren't George Lucas understand Star Wars.

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

Thoughts on Disney Buying Lucasfilm...

Thoughts on Disney Buying Lucasfilm...by ~GahmahRaan

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style