Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
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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
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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.

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!

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

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

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
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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does manipulation give your work style?

Thu Apr 5, 2007, 10:55 AM

Eating: a smoked audi
Drinking: Espresso.

so many photographers -- including some of the most popular on dA -- appear to use photo manipulation of their in-camera RAW work ... to give themselves style. yet ... instead of putting their work in "photomanipulation" it goes in whatever photographic gallery they want. are they manipulating their work? what the viewer thinks is a photograph? or both?

it's one thing to make a photo.

it's another to have "style."

not stylized photos but photographic style.

i've seen landscapes that CANNOT be achieved any other way but by intense manipulation or "enhancement" as those who aren't in the "real world" call it.

i've seen skin tones and lighting ... which cannot be achieved any other way but by manipulation.

all of that said ... one of the best is this retoucher. look at the relevant section. do some mouse-over's on some of the examples.

so ... i ask ... if you make a mundane photo which almost anyone with any photographic knowledge can make ... and you give it to a retoucher ...

is it your style or is it the retoucher's style?

yeah, i know ... film people can do all sorts of things to their negs or chromes or whatever.

there are great examples of both digital and film shooters who deviate from what's was "actually recorded" to sensor or film.

i think it would be great when the day comes ...

when included in the exif information we see every single step, every single layer, every single everything ...

and i think that most will be surprised at how much "work" or "manipulation" is included in some of the most popular work in cough-cough ... the photography sections.

i think that if we looked at actual RAW files ... of some of the photographic gods (in both the real world and dA) ... we'd all be surprised as hell.

i know that editors have showed me the RAW files from some very well-known shooters here in LA ... and my respect for said photographers ... well ...

lets just say ... my respect level went down several notches.

happens in the real world.

happens at dA.

because ... dA is far from the real world ...

but ... that line between what is acceptable in the real world ... and dA ... is starting to blur.

a real blur.

not a fake one.

off to the city.

hope you're all well.

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~mudgey Apr 27, 2007

i think there needs to be a manip section of da.. or just be able to add the fact it has been. if u put it in the manip section then theres not as many section such as transport etc. like the straight up photography section.

`blackzer0 Apr 15, 2007

That's food for thought, man. Makes me rethink things.

!darthmarlan Apr 11, 2007

If I do more than just a bit of levels etc etc etc. i generally put in the description what has been done, ie, tweaked curves, selective colour adjustment etc, but yeah i am sure a lot of people would be surprised as to how much post-work goes into a lot of things

`cweeks Apr 11, 2007

i'm sure there are some on dA who are "photo gods" ...

and if the viewers really knew how much "post work" goes into their material ...

they'd be shocked!

!darthmarlan Apr 12, 2007

indeedly

~etspangler Apr 10, 2007

Crap!!!

I am sitting here crying my little eyeballs out cause I just figured out I am a photo manipulator.

I have dishonered my family and my nation.

I must commit Sepuku now!

I ask that you honor me by being my kaishakunin (second)

(you get to cut my head off, don't worry I have a really sharp sword for you to use.)
*laughs*

Have a nice day
and for god sakes go manipulate someone.

Later
Lunitic Bodhisattva

!NL2377 Apr 9, 2007

Damn... That's just insane. There are definately a few of mine that should be in the photo manips section after reading this... but those are mostly back from my digital days...

Damn....

~dasens Apr 9, 2007

couldn't agree more, i really do think there's the need to establish a clear difference between real photography or photoshopography, and as much as i enjoy some of the "magic" some people can work on an image, i just don't find it right or even fair to see it among real photography works.
People who manip photographs and achieve great results, have nothing to be ashamed of, they do deserve their credit, just not amoung the photography cattegory, that's why photomanip catt. is there for.
And its important that people who actually have influence on communities, start to make a point about it.

~tommyna Apr 9, 2007

Mister Weeks,

I couldn't agree more with you, that's why I always wanted that the outcome of my photographic world is just the way my eyes sees it...

*simba Apr 7, 2007

Once again, you have hit the nail on the head. Nicely stated. *cough cough*

Have a good one. I am once again looking at your pieces ... any new stuff I should see?

Have a great holiday buddy. LA is overcast? Hell, it snowed here this morning ... after the 80 degree week. Crazy jetstream.

Hide some eggs for B and C. And get J something nice for her basket.

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