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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

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!

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

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

[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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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

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:

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Just to preface so you don't run into things you weren't expecting, Yaoi-con is a San Francisco anime convention based around yaoi/BL or homosexual (specifically male/male) topics. Please don't read this entry if that makes you uncomfortable.

For everyone else, hey guys!!!
It was a really great weekend, I had so much fun seeing everyone again and meeting new cosplayers/photographers.

I had 15 photoshoots but still managed to attend the seiyuu panel, cosplay event and bishounen auction. No sleep ftw. XD

The seiyuu guests were Okiayu Ryoutarou (fff TREIZE) and Kiuchi Hidenobu, they were so cute and stuck together like buddies the whole con. They really put themselves out there and took time to walk around, it was great seeing them interact with the congoers.

At the panel:

The BG!! XD
The main ballroom had huge banners of artist guests Yamane Ayano, Jo Chen and Takanaga Hinako's work hanging from ceiling to floor.

Saturday night was the cosplay performances, shout-out to Last Missed Chance & ~KoiCosplay who did fantastic jobs!! (Also, if anyone has video of their intermission show please let them know.)

Afterwards was the auctionnn~
It's so fun, basically a bunch of skits with only male performers. People bid to have them as escorts for the night (the con is still active into morning hours) and all the money goes to charity.

YESPLZ?!!

David Bowie lookalike who can do amazing glass ball tricks *-*

And there were a bunch of others who were equally entertaining, but the ultimate men of the night by far were:

YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD THE SCREAMING
When they walked onto the stage, it was insane.
I mean I was screaming too, I think, though I couldn't hear myself over the massive screaming of the entire room. There was so much potential but unfortunately they did very little fanservice, they only sung something silly and then stood there looking kind of in awe and amused.

They sold for $11,000.

Yeah that's three zeroes, it was unbelievable.
They got a standing ovation and certainly deserved it!

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As for photos, here's what's on DA so far~ (thanks guys!)

Lucky Dog

Vincent x Yuffie

Moritaka HS

Kingdom Hearts Steampunk

Hetalia Pirates

Kuroshitsuji II

+ moar

Kichiku Megane

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Pokemon Gijinka

LOL record for the largest group I've worked with so far

Togainu

ParaKiss

Kuroshitsuji Circus

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Reborn

Justin Beiber

for

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(this shoot was so funny omg)

Will update this when more are posted~
Hope everyone had a great Halloween and good luck with your own personal projects!!! o/

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*red-cluster Dec 13, 2010

Wow $11,000 CRAZYYY But if I had that much money, I might do the same. XD

Sounds like this was a fun con! Great photos as always, Masako~!

~sh1nt4 Nov 17, 2010

nice review for a nice convention !

~masa-kocha Dec 1, 2010 Photographer

Thank you! Glad it's not overkill or too much to take in~ I left out a lot, there are so many silly photos I'd like to post someday. XD

~sh1nt4 Dec 1, 2010

humm.. make an other article on that

and a special gallery dedicated to "not to show" photos !

~quatre2323 Nov 10, 2010

Wow! 15 photoshoot! You must be very busy in Yaoi-con. You should take more rest.
Thanks for shooting our Togainu no chi. After the process of photo, the color and feeling are incredible. I like the dark style. >0<
Although the shoot is in a hurry, there are still lots of amazing photos. Looking forward to see you next time. XD

~masa-kocha Nov 12, 2010 Photographer

Glad you like it!! It's fun working on these, and having a concept of what to do with them.
I have to say your cosplays were both very cool and well-made, and I was surprised when I was helping pose with the weapons that it was metal. @-@ You were both very good at handling them!
Yes same here!!! Hope I don't have to wait until the next convention! >3<

*CanadianStrawberry Nov 9, 2010

All of your shoots are so incredible! I love looking at your photography no matter the subject!

Also.... I think I win:

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~masa-kocha Nov 12, 2010 Photographer

haha omg XDDD
Have to admit you are the clear winner there! Though I think my expression would be happy just the same. ^D^
And I love how everyone has my flippy hair, lol!

~blackfruitbat Nov 9, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you so freaking much for all of your hard work. ;-; You did such a fantastic job with the pokemon shoot (I LOVE the licki + group pics!) and I am sure the steampunk KH photos turned out gorgeous. You have so much stamina to do so many shoots! I only hope you had some down time to rest and replenish. @-@ Seriously, thank you thank you THANK YOU for everything, you rock so much

~masa-kocha Nov 12, 2010 Photographer

You're so very welcome~! <3
Glad I got to see you again + your Licki cosplay was super cute!! ^-^ Getting the Steampunk ones to Raven now~~~

I had time to go to con events too so everything worked out well, plus photoshoots are just so much fun. Next (big) con is Sakura-con so I have lots of time to replenish before then. X3

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