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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

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

You can rotate the shapes!

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

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 can like this
Deadline
July

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.

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

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.

[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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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!

XBOne... fixed.To everyone who says picking on Microsoft for their consumer unfriendly bullshit was "being unnecessarily mean," take a look at this. Don Mattrick just announced that Microsoft is back peddling with the XBOne, removing the disastrously awful features we've been bashing them for trying to inflict on us.
    Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience.
    For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come. As is our heritage with Xbox, we designed a system that could take full advantage of advances in technology in order to deliver a breakthrough in game play and entertainment. We imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games. We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future.
    Since unveiling our plans for X

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

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DIRTY DIRTY LOVE on view at Like the Spice Gallery

by ~cobotenuss, May 21, 2009, 1:34:29 PM
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UPDATE!!!!!
Oh yeah, I made it to the big time. Check out Shirt.Woot to see me in action! Here's the link: [link]

The opening is just hours away. I hope to see all you dA'ers there.

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Great things are happening and I hope you can be a part of them!!!

Opening May 22nd at Brooklyn's Like the Spice Gallery, I will exhibit, for the first time ever, the series: Dirty Dirty Love. Many of you may already be familiar with this body of work, and some of you might be stumbling upon it for the first time. In short, Dirty Dirty Love [link] is a series of confessional portraits, each dealing with one or more aspects of sexuality that mainstream society has, for one reason or another, deemed taboo. Working in conjunction with my subjects through collaborative interviews and modeling sessions, the goal of Dirty Dirty Love is create imagery that explores alternative and secret lifestyles and open a forum for discussion about their value and permanence.

The show opens up Friday, May 22nd at Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsbrg, Brooklyn, New York. The reception will be from 6:30 to 10pm and will be one hell of a good time. I'd love to have as many people there as possible, so if you're able, please attend. No RSVP's required, come as you are, come prepared to party.

For those of you who really want to pick my brain about my work and process, the gallery will be hosting an Artist's Dinner the following Friday, May 29th at 8pm. The dinner is an opportunity to have a one on one with me and the gallery's owner, Marisa Sage. RSVP's are required for the dinner and seating is limited.

The show will run through the 21st of June. More information can be found here: [link]

***In other, more important news, I'm a Daddy!!!
My little girl, Isabel Mia Negron, was born April 23rd at 4:28am. She is an eating and pooping machine and spends her days thus far making squishy faces and generally fighting her sleep so she can see what all the commotion is about. I'll be posting photos of her on my dA photo account here: [link] She is amazing and has me completely wrapped around her itty bitty fingers already. I can't wait to have some more downtime so i can really get to know her.

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Mood: Overwhelmed
Listening to: The Crystal Method's New Album - it's pretty good!
Reading: "The Alcoholic" by Jonathan Ames
Watching: "Barbarians" on the History Channel
Playing: hot potato
Eating: cereal
Drinking: sweet sweet Milk

DIRTY DIRTY LOVE on view at Like the Spice Galleryby ~cobotenuss

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~airnsun May 24, 2009

i can't wait to come see your work! t and i were thinking about checking it out on thursday. i wish we could make it to the dinner but i think he will be heading home by then. it would be great to see you as well, but i am guessing your sweet baby is keeping you busy!?!

looking forward

xoxo,
K

~cobotenuss May 26, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

Busy is an understatement. Man, if it weren't for my parents I think I'd be going crazy by now.

I'd love to know your thoughts if you have a chance to make it to the show. The opening went really well - nerve wracking but well. Now I've already started moving onto the next few projects. No rest for the weary!

Have a great stay in NYC. How long will you be here?

~airnsun May 30, 2009

it was great to see the show. i am amazed by your use of color and the realistic detail, i have never seen watercolors like that before. it is wild to see us up there and one of them might have even sold! congratulations on a wonderful show! i hope your dinner went great last night and all is well at home with your sweet new baby

i am here until early monday morn... a bit homesick at the moment, i miss my little one very much.

all the best to you sweetie!
xoxoxo
K

~cobotenuss Jun 10, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

I'm so happy you made it to the show! I wish we could have met up at the gallery but as you know, I've been home with Isabel. Traveling into the city is not as easy as it used to be but we're having a blast up in CT. I hope you had a great trip to NYC. Let me know the next time you are in town and we'll meet for a drink and some craziness.

Once again, thank you. You are amazing.

R

~airnsun Jun 12, 2009

i completely understand! my trip was really nice but i am still recovering! i have to thank you again for this wonderful collaboration! I am very much tempted to post my fav of your pictures of us... i think i am gonna ask t about it tonight... you be well, and enjoy all your time with your little one. what a joy and blessing!

YOU are amazing!!
xoxox,
K

~cobotenuss Jun 12, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

Oh wow - well if you want to post any of the photos at least let me edit and touch them up! The ones I sent you were straight out of the camera and there are just so many that look fantastic. You were so amazing to work with - I hope we get the opportunity to do so again... soon!

~airnsun Jun 12, 2009

oh no, not the actual photos! i was thinking of your paintings! i would love to see some of the shots of chili and i though

those are for our eyes only!

~cobotenuss Jun 18, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

Ahhh! Ok, well please feel free to do whatever you want with those images. As for the ones of you and that HoT BiTch, I am still editing them. I've been behind of my editing due to changing diapers and trying to sell paintings. You know how it goes. But I'll be sure to set aside a handful tonight so you can see how great they came out.

Cheers.

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~nargynargy May 24, 2009

congratulations on Isabel (a lovely name!) and the gallery opening. I honestly wish I was living in New York to be able to come see your work in person. Hope you're having a blast

~cobotenuss May 31, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you so much. It's a crazy time here what with new babies and finally finding gallery representation. It's all the best of everything all coming at once and I love it!

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