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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
#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
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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!
******************************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!

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.

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

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:

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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OK, You Can Stop Ignoring My Gallery Now!!!

Mon Jun 12, 2006, 6:23 PM

Due to the posting and DDing of the kitten in a blender photo [link] , AS MY PROTEST I had requested that everyone please ignore my gallery until that photo and DD have been removed because it wasn't possible to deactivate my gallery.

Well, that simply isn't going to happen and there does't seem to be anything we can do at the moment!!!!

I'd like to thank all the commentors as well as the admin and the artists who participated in this discussion. Sorry but I still think this photo was in very poor taste but because dA isn't a democracy, there's not much a mere member or subscriber can do about it. Since this is pretty much a free/paid site though and dA relies on our subscriptions to operate, it seems to me that we should have a say it how things are done around here and more and more people are getting together to politely inform the staff of this.

is one person who is carrying on a dialogue with other members to encourage change at dA. His journal page: [link]

Meanwhile, life continues apace. Sometimes, it goes at such a pace, I can't keep track of everything though for the most part, much of my life remains in cyberspace both here and elsewhere/when on the net.

I've had some family surprizes both good and bad and having to face some of my responsibilities. What a tough life, eh?

So if I've been less than present here please let me apologise. Inspiration has been down a bit too so I haven't been posting quite as wildly as I was for awhile there either. Hoping that this too will pass and that a brighter future will be in store for us all!

Thanks for reading!

Please wait for my friends' icons to load and then look at their galleries too!
Thanks!

Clubs:

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The Faery Godmother Project [link] :thumb34193518:

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OK, You Can Stop Ignoring My Gallery Now!!!by ~LeonieZurakowsky

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*WolfSorcerer Jun 16, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Will keep it simple. They put up a site, which is a skeleton, and they run it the way they want. That's fair. It's body is made out of Members/Subscribers who complete the idea, and though not much can be done to change some criteria, we freely express ourselves about what we like, and should be exactly the same when we find something we don't like. That should also be fair, isn't it?. If we don't speak out, we become a flock, and we well know what happens to flocks projected to world politics. Let's not be fooled by "small" examples.

It's true, many serial killers began as animal torturers. Others restrain themselves to animals only (not much difference). Saying that implied violence on animals is "cute", reveals how sick a society we have become. Should we

about it...NO WAY!!

Take care hon!

~LeonieZurakowsky Jul 19, 2006 Digital Artist

Thanks for your response

!Trecman Jun 21, 2006

Concurred Sergio. If everyone turned a blind eye to the ill's of the world we'd still be living in the dark ages, where people killed people and Nations attacked Nations. - Oooops, that's a synopsis of tonight's news. My mistake.

Wake me up when the world GROWS up! ............ zzzzZZZzzzzzz sleeping through the uglyness zzzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............

Peace!

*ArtistInWaiting Jun 13, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

Glad to hear we can stop ignoring you! Like I said before...I had a completely different take on the picture. Sorry if I upset you.

Hope your "troubles" in your private life go easier than it looks at this point. Yipiii for the good stuff. Looking forward to more art from you.

~LeonieZurakowsky Jun 13, 2006 Digital Artist

Thanks my dear, and no worries - we all have our "imho"'s!!!! Just can't help but think of how those serial killers get started and all that is implied by the pic. Hope you can understand my POV.

Thanks for the support and I'm just 'going with the flow" and trying not to 'push the river' these days. I am so lazy about posting lately - I've got scads of stuff sitting in a log-jam!

Glad to see you've been posting a bit more too lately!

*ArtistInWaiting Jun 13, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

S'ok, I am just a little light in the brain. Or maybe I just try so hard to ignore the really bad things in life. I think sometimes working with the handicapped and elderly makes me less worried about what happens on the Internet. I can see your point, I'm such an animal lover that hurting them is beyond my ability to fathom. I can't even watch Animal Cops on Animal planet! Those poor creatures!

And serial killers...they don't need to be inspired...they just do it. It's part of the syndrome. Those people are soo spooky, can't even imagine what goes on in their minds! Read about them and shudder.

Posting more, well a little, been doing a lot of posting on a new site too. TigerHomes.org is the place to be Live cams, watching real exotics, that are well taken care of. A whole bunch of people who love animals...wild and the family pet.

~LeonieZurakowsky Jun 14, 2006 Digital Artist

I just figure if we don't complain about stuff, nothing will get done but I've spent years ignoring all the problems and still ignore most of them or I'd go insane. I don't watch TV, read the papers or listen to the radio. All my news tips come via one list serve and occasionally I go to those suggested sites to look for more details - naturally some of these are news sites etc so I just get all of my news on the net. But believe me I don't go looking for it anymore...there's enough shite in my own life lately!

Bookmarked that site and will take a look sometime...when times permits. Amazing how swamped I am lately and I don't even have a "job"!! , though I sure could use the money! ;D

*ArtistInWaiting Jun 15, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

Actually TigerHome should come with a warning label! "Highly Addictive". Oh, and if you do join the forum, don't let TigerDave get to you. He is feeling the financial squeeze from the hurricanes and once in a while does his Money Rant. He is thinking of charging a small fee to watch the cams, and he gets a little crazy once in a while! And he has never heard the word, diplomatic, so never take his rants personally. He is going to let people be "sponsored" if they are very active. (which I think you mght be once you get into it) Or you can donate as little as $5 a mo and watch for free. He has thousands of people on his database, and less that 1% help him keep the animal cared for and the camsite running, the bill from servers alone must be awful. So try to look at the site fairly soon, we don't know when he is going to start charging. He doesn't know either, and who knows, maybe he'll never get around to it.

I have started donating lately, because I have been watching the animals almost everyday. Because my "work" has stablized, I have been catching up with things I wanted at the Gift Shop. (Any purchases go to helping the guy out and will entitle you to watch the cams.)

~LeonieZurakowsky Jun 15, 2006 Digital Artist

Thanks for the info - will take another look at the site! As for donating - I'm in one of those positions like Dave!

*ArtistInWaiting Jun 15, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

Yes...I know donating is hard for you. That's why I mentioned his idea for a mini-sponsor as he calls it. I really don't know the amount of money that puts you on the "Golden Sponsor" list. With me they went back and found all the times I have donated and I landed on the list. The only donation that I had made where I wasn't getting something back, was a $25 hurricane donation. Several of us can only donate 20 a month. This feeds one predator or one lemur troop for 1 day.

I'm going to try to sell prints and have the proceeds go to feeding the animals. It probably won't work but I'm going to try.

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