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Contest Time!
It's time for my contest!
I hope you guys are excited. I've been planning this contest for months now.
If you would like to see existing contest entries, click here! ---> http://kittenhime.deviantart.com/favourites/55354821
✿Theme✿
Draw my persona Kitty!

✿What I'll Be Looking For✿
This contest will not be judged much by the quality but more by the creativity.
I would like to see what you all come up with!
✿What Mediums Are Allowed✿
♥Digital Art
♥Traditional Art
♥Pixel Art
✿What Is Not Allowed✿
♥Other OC's or Characters
♥ Gender bending
♥Creating her in another form other than Kemonomimi
✿Rules✿
♥The contest will end 6/14/2013
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May GiveawayIt is time for our monthly giveaway! Help us thank our awesome donors by giving them a llama. You can find our donors here.
How can I participate in this giveaway?
Simple, just favorite this journal (we had issues with people spamming comments).
How will the winner be selected?
A random number generator will be used (random.org to be specific). The RNG will be first used to select a page from the list of those who favorited this journal. Then from that list the RNG will be used to select the winner!
Do I have to be a member of this group?
No, you do not have to be a member.
Who can win?
Any member of deviantArt that has been around for at least 6 months and has not won the membership from previous giveaways. The winner must be a deviant who currently does not have an active subscription to deviantArt.
What if this account I have now is under six months, bu

Draw My OC Contest! Join please~~~Finally, contest time! Arrr…..I've been wanting to held a contest since….last year….haha…I was too lazy to write a journal of the contest….*sob*. Okay, now let's get to the point.
Theme
Draw my Dragon and Kirin OC in any scenery
Reference:

Reference sheet : http://sta.sh/013xi9fy914i http://sta.sh/0xa6rmqfzk1
Allowed Media & Style

Media : Digital art and traditional art (must be coloured) ONLY.

Style: Anime (cell-shaded/soft-shaded)/manga & Semi-realism anime ONLY. NO chibis/portrait/abstract/anthro/animation/photomanipulation etc
Some examples that the style I like:
http://chaosringen.deviantart.com/art/Centaur-Warrior-364644727
http://jinkimania.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Pie66-371753047
http://yogisha.deviantart.com/art/Silent-stratosphere-371646432
http://cobi-cobi.deviantart.com/art/Atera-363609173
http://juhaihai.deviantart.com/art/

Oi people - think before you click!Yesterday I got spammed to hell with messages linking to different variants of this image:
They can have slightly different graphics or contain different links but the message is always basically the same - go to this page and you'll receive 20 000

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I have to ask the question - how dim do you have to be to fall for it?
Ok let's see - we have an image hosted on a profile that is 1 day old and asks you to visit a website with a strange url with a promise of a financial reward on an another website. How do you even imagine that would work? And now, of course, people start crying that their computers got infected with malware. Which is great - every genius who fell for this obvious phishing scam deserved it. I hope your shitty computer burns and you along with it.
I know this is a no-duh for 90% of people reading it but for the sake of the rest lets revise what we all should know about online phishig. And before you go all:
No, no you can't.
Copypasta from

[FINISHED]hihihihi <3
Today I've reached 1,000+ watchers * O * holy carp what the fluck kfndmslkrhfgbjnsljshfnc
Amg did you know i never thought i'd get as many as 50 watchers when i joined dA XDDD
idfhvbnmsdjufgdvbjcnlsifh anyways
To thank all my watchers.... Im going to be giving away stuff owo
I know it's not much but I really don't have that much to give ;___; <3 Please understand
Im giving away a goodie bundle consisting of:

-Chibi from me

-Pixel Icon from me
-1 month premium
-150
You can look in my gallery if you want examples
Rules to participate:
-You MUST be one of my watchers BEFORE this journal is posted to be eligible(I will be checking!)
-One entry per person (no using other accounts!)
-You must love apple juice (Nah, just kidding)
To enter (if you are eligible):
-

this journal
-.... thats it 8D
Because I will be picking a number from a random generator, you must fav this journal and the number yo

Premium and Point Giveaway!The Giveaway
I will be giving away a one month, three month, twelve month, and two-thousand points!
Just fav this journal and you can win!
Rules
You must favorite this journal
No point or plz accounts
Accounts must have at least one month seniority
Do not enter more than once
How can I get entered more?
Favorite this journal to get entered
Write a journal about this giveaway and include this thumb:
:thumb371701888:
{Please comment if you do}
Donate to the giveaway. Every ten points equals one entry
How will I be picking the winners?
I will be using a generator to randomly pick a name.
Journal Written
:iconxHeartOfaPhoenix: :iconSnowy-Heart: :iconAbystoma: :iconminieverfeel: :icondarkdeath6136: :iconMarshfeilds-stock: :iconGokuDrawingCentral: :iconluvnuage: :iconcoolhorse1: :iconGrace3333: :iconour-cosmic-love: :iconBunnymee: :iconIlmexxx: :iconRoroam: :iconFeebas-Hunter: :iconxScarletstripesx: :iconClovis-cutestkitten: :iconKrimzonNights

Opinions are a Dangerous thing: Art StylesThis isn't about narking on anyone no, infact this is just my own muses really! You could say this is a journal for ENCOURAGEMENT! *SHINES*
I find sticking to one style restrictive if you are a beginning/moderate artist! (even professionals I might say! though I can't speak for everyone)
Having a distinctive look on how your art is done and produced is understandable and its a desire to appear unique to the point some one can just SEE your work and instantly think 'Oh! that's Ten-days!' or something along the line. However, when you are trying to find who you are and what kind of art you are to produce, I recommend trying, well, a lot of different things! Different styles, mixing styles, different colouring techinque, brushes, tools, shading. Don't feel dependant on what you are already doing and don't feel pressured by people just for trying new things!
Push out of your comfort zone. Can't draw hands? don't avoid it! draw the heck out of them! (how else are you going to learn?)
Draw a

1000 Point Giveaway!Okay enough of joining giveaways.....it's time to host one!

Remember the big surprise I was talking about in the previous journal? Well here it is! My BIGGEST giveaway yet!

Total prizes reach 1000

SIX more winners will be chosen who EACH will receive 50

!!!!!
~~I will be so broke after this...~~

But of course there are always the rules......

Please please please fave the journal!

Make another journal about this giveaway and provide a link of that journal in the comments (this will help spread the word about this giveaway)
Want another entry?
:bulletgreen:You can :+devwatch: me to get your name entered TWICE! EDIT:For those who are ALREADY watching me you can still earn additional entries by faving my art! Each fave gets you ONE extra entry! (Max number of entries possible: 3)
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to state wha

Made a video again :P...another fake Parashi Opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa8pPlOxuQ
It's really choppy and suuuuuper scribbly because I took like 30 seconds to draw each frame. Please fill in the gaps and gloss over the art with your wonderful imagination! I made it in Windows Movie Maker which is an absolutely evil program =o=
I'll try to fix up the ugly pictures and maybe add some color when I have time, and reupload another version later :b (don't know when though.) For now feel free to watch this one and laugh at it huhuhu
(the song is Tenkuu no Canaria, from ToS *w*b)

Mini Point Giveaway - Enter Quickly!200
1st - 100 :icontwaanie:
2nd - 50 :iconbannabutt-angel-14:
3rd - 30 :iconGIR10:
4th - 10 :iconYams83:
5th - 10 :iconCrimsonRobin:

This Mini Giveaway ended May 17th 9:00PM GMT (UK Time)
All winners are picked at random! (random.org)

Win free MLP OC commissionHi guys!
I have finally decided to have some sort of give-away/contest/lottery/whatever-you-like-to-call-it

You will have the chance to win a drawing made by me, with you MLP original character
What you'll have to do to participate:
•Favorite this journal
•Put a link to your OC that you would like me to draw in in the comment field below,
•also add a little comment why I should pick your OC :3 Only one entry/person
(If you don't do all three thing above your entry won't count)
What you will win:
•A drawing of your OC, made by me with markers on paper size A5, drawn in this style http://fav.me/d65cire
If you would like me to send the physical drawing to you you'll have to pay for the shipping (only Paypal accepted), otherwise I can send the scanned version to you by e-mail :3
.• I will pick TWO (2) winners! •.
I have no idea how many that will enter, I have never done something like this before x)
This contest will end at May 23rd (which means you'll have one week to enter)
So.. good

Mickey's Chibi Raffle!EDIT YOU HAVE LITTLE TIME LEFT FOLKS. NIGHT!
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Hi folks! Thank you again for 500 watchers!
Er. 508 watchers! I'm really slow at doing things for you guys.
You can slap me.
This raffle is for watchers only.
:iconbuhuuplz:
Anyone who watches me after *Rashirou will not count.
All you have to do is fave this journal and I'll use that random generator thing....what's it called Linh?
That thing. I'll use that thing.
First Prize Winner gets a chibi like this:

The winner will be chosen
Wednesday May 22 at 1500 hours PST.

Eurovision nightGot myself some ice cream and will be making myself compfy on the sofa so I'm ready for the big, glittery, horrible music, camp, pointless politics, drama that is eurovision. It never disappoints me.

Sadly I will be alone for this one. Matt had to do a concert he didn't want to do, so I will be live tweeting (humonlazydiva) my impression of the whole shebang.

(UPDATED)DRAW MY OC!WIN 1000 POINTS AND MORE!EDIT #1-YOU CAN NOW WIN,1000 POINTS!+ADDED MORE PRIZES!
EDIT #2-DONATORS WILL BE FEATURED BELOW.
EDIT#3-ADDED MORE PRIZES!
(if you wanna know why i raised the prizes,its because i won a contest!yay!)
YAY!Another contest!I hope someone will join!
So..its about my newest OC,Kasumi,.of course,youre going to draw her~

Things to clarify:

A mage's abilities are:supernatural strength,able to cast magic spells,able to survive for a long period of time.
Her staff/rod appears when shes battling with someone.

CONTEST RULES:
You have to draw Kasumi.
You can draw her with her likes and dislikes,her casting spells or just her alone.
Do not draw her with your OC or my other OC's,they dont know each other.
Do not draw her as an animal and pony.
Backgrounds are preferred but not needed.(although putting one will really raise your chances at winning!)
Traditional and Digital drawings only.
Chibis,headshot

Advice and TutorialsSo this First Advice and Tutorial Journal will be on General Anatomy and Such. The second will be up to you so please comment below in what you think the next Advice and Tutorial Journal should be on.
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What I personally find the hardest to draw is feet and hands. I found that with a lot of practice and a lot of frustrating mistakes my feet and hands actually look at the very least almost the way i want them to be.
Now my favorite Style of drawing is Anime or sometimes semi-realism, and i find that by doing studies of the more traditional style realism actually helps improve my anime pictures greatly. For instance i would practice drawing my hands and feet in different positions holding different things and from different angles. I also find it extremely helpful while i'm drawing and i'm having a particularly hard time drawing a hand or a foot in a certain position i will stop for a

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Journal Entry: Thu Feb 5, 2009, 4:44 PM

www.surrealsushi.com

"Hey. I think i saw your picture on this website/blog here CLICK HERE"
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK IN THESE COMMENTS. Some crap about spyware or something...just don't click it.
I just got 3. Spread the word.

I'm going to japan...atleast, I want to this year. And I need your help! I'm probably going to have to travel alone...which scares me since I have no sense of direction and am easily intimidated. So...do you have any advice? Cool places? Good times to go? Hotels? The location of the Canadian Embassy? (lol) Usefull phrases?....I wanna go when its mild-cold....like spring or winter. I'd like to stick to Kyoto and Tokyo..

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Listening to: ...
Watching: Tootsie
Playing: NHL09, Left4dead, COD:WOW
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~kasai May 11, 2009 Professional Artist

Hey Jeff, are you still planning to come out to Japan?? I live in Saitama and work in Tokyo so if you need any help getting around, hit me up!

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*jeffsimpsonkh May 11, 2009

next year I'm afriad

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=Presteza Feb 14, 2009

go soon, it will be spring in a month or two.

there are some ceremonies at this time of year too, for example in Nara (near Kyoto) there is a fire festival at a big temple there
[link]

Japan and Korea are the safest places I've ever travelled to, and people are generally helpful.

useful phrase: "watak-shino nihongo warui" which means "I don't speak japanese"
lol obvious I guess, I was spoiled with my own personal interpreter, my vocab didn't expand much further than arigato or moshimoshi or stuff most peeps already know

a phrasebook will help, use it to point out words to non-english speakers (rather than attempt to pronounce them yourself).

Prettymuch everything will be new and different, go there with a sense of adventure

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~massalo Feb 13, 2009 Photographer

Oh great man, I'm planning on going round december! this journal is actually helping a lot

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~mishinsilo Feb 12, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

Isn't there a spa where you can bath in warm chocolate and other foods. MMMM -do that!!

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!crim-son Feb 6, 2009

it's not just "Hey. I think i saw your picture on this website/blog here LINK"

i got the text "Hey. check out this funny blog!! LOL CLICK HERE" from infected persons
maybe you could ad that in your blog

oh and "google chrome" warns them if they visit a infected side ^^ (chrome is the most save browser i like that)

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~konako Feb 6, 2009

The best place I ever went in Japan is Mt.Koya (Koya-san). [link] There really are no words to describe how beautiful it is. walking through the cemetery is something you really have to experience.

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*Nightiingale Feb 6, 2009 Student Digital Artist

I heard (by word of mouth) there is a host program in Japan. It's really kick ass. You stay with a real japanese family for awhile. I did that. Best experience of mylife (the girl who was my age was nammed miki how cute

).

Yeah, if you get a chance, buy a 3 day pass for tokyo disney land and disney sea (it's like this mad water-park, but with disney !! Two best things EVER in one). Trust me, to really apprciate it (and do everything), you need to spend 3 days there.

Oh and if you do go to disney land, get there like as soon as the gates open and go on all the popular rides first.

Splash mountain (3 hour wait in line if you dilly daddle)

Haunted Mansion (same deal)

Big Thunder Mountain (holy fucking shit *excuse the language* longest line ever!!)

Oh and don't cut in line, otherwise you will be called an ignorant tourist in japanese (genki or something)

Also, check out Kyoto, really cool place. And if you're a guy, do some sumo (it's so funny). If you're a girl, go to a gehisa studio and get the full on gehsia girl make up, kimono, hair do the works. I did it, sure the kimono is heavy, hard to walk in, but it's so worth it! I have a photo of me in it, I look so cool 8D loolz.

Check out the Shojin palace, Golden temple and imperial palace. Kinda boring, but the Shojin palace has a cool history about ninjas, samurais, war-lords, power and greed e.t.c.

If you want a tear-jerker and need to appreciate your life, and need some inspiration/uplifting/courage story go to hiroshima. You will not forgt it. Nuff said. Trust me, you break down and cry when you see the tricycle that a little 3 year old boy died on from the bomb, his little hand's shadow etched on it

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Oh also, because you're a tourist, you can get a special shikansen (bullet train) pass. Gives you unlimted use of the bullet trains (I think).

Oh!! Also!! Don't eat sushi from the train station stalls. I did. I was so sick I can't remember 3 days of my trip. Wait I do remember giving hourly offering to the porceline throne if ya know what I mean. Sushi is okay there, just not train-station sushi (they don't keep it cold enough at the train station *arggh*).

HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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=Tsabo6 Feb 6, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks m8!

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~wompum Feb 5, 2009

I've heard a lot about people going over to Japan and teaching English for some extra cash. Most companies also provide great accommodation (like an apartment) and encourage you to have a roommate from your country, which you wouldn't have but it would be a really good way to feel secure if you're intimidated by the fact of being in a completely different country.

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