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Points Giveaway #4 --- OPENHello everyone! ; v ; This is another points raffle!
Simply fav to enter! No need to be one of my watchers. ♥
Ill be using a RNG on May 25th!
The amount being given out is 100 points to 1 person!
Good luck! And if you are bored, answer the following question!
Favorite food? Least favorite food? ♥
My favorite food is salmon sashimi, and my least
favorite is probably broccoli. </3
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♥ buneep

I'm bored :c.... *50 point giveaway!* (OPEN)I am very bored! D:
And since I am feeling bored and nice, I decided to do a tiny point giveaway.
All you have to do is:

Fave this journal (it will be your number)

Watch me IF you like my art~ ;v;
Well....that's about it!
Winner will be chosen using Random.org
Deadline: 5/19/13
If you take a look/join my contest, I will love you forever

Contest Time!It's time for my contest!
I hope you guys are excited. I've been planning this contest for months now.
✿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
♥Up to two submissions per person
♥Favorite this journal
♥Post a journal about my contest, naming it "KittenHime's Contest"
♥Please do not do this with her hair !! :

✿Prizes✿
♥

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/

DESIGN A CHARACTER CONTEST 2013!hello friends family pets and everyone else who lives under the sea,
im doing a DESIGN CONTEST WAHOO LETS PARTY
alright well, here are the rules, includes what this is about and etc. etc.
Rules

.......... The design MUST HAVE ONLY 2 COLORS; BLACK AND WHITE

.......... you may use bases, but it is STRONGLY discouraged.

.......... I will be the only judge; I will be judging on WHAT I SIMPLY LIKE BEST. so read 'likes' to see some ideas of what I would like to see in an entry!

.......... I may use the design/character as my own BUT, I will (obviously) give you credit<3

.......... YOU CAN ENTER AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE!!!

.......... You can create an origonal species or use a real animal (such as a fox) for the design

.......... please make it origonal as you can! it can be of an already exsisting species, just that I dont

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

.
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

HOLY CARP 1,000+ Watchers! Goodie bundle giveaway!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 th

wonderful cosplay

i love these , posing is awesome, and facial expressions are spot on... now im only hoping for some with silly faces.. what can i say, im a facial expression nut! XD

EDIT: WINNERAfter entering the entries into the generator, we have a winner!
The winner isssss....
#41; ~nikiten! c:
Thank you all for entering! uvu I will notify the winner at this time.
EDIT: DATE EXTENDED SO PEOPLE CAN ENTER. I MAY NOT CHECK ENTRIES AT EXACTLY 4, BUT I'LL TRY.
*flips abunch of tables*
GIVEAWAY TIME
I'M PRETTY SURE YOU WANT TO WIN 50 POINTS FOR DOING PRETTY CLOSE
TO RELATIVELY NOTHING.
so my watchers and people who have done this before know the gist, but
for anyone else...
WHAT YOU MUST DO:
✿ CLICK THAT FAVORITE BUTTON
AND THAT'S IT! :iconorekibakaplz:
Once you click that favorite button, you're automatically entered into the raffle for 50

! :iconyukkolikeniplz:
The winner will be selected by the everfamous random.org!
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Short FAQ:
When does this end?
More than likely 5/17/13, at around 4 p.m EST. ( http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/eastern-time/

Devious Journal Entryokay, i kinda have to say something....
some rumors have been going around that im homophobic (??) and i try to hide behind people, and im full of myself and that i hate you all and i manipulate you guys??????
im mean you can say what you want but let me tell you the real true me:
Hello, I am Emma i am 19 going on 20 in a few months. I am Pansexual (if you don't know what that is here is a link to the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality) I am super bad at talking to people because of my anxiety and claiming to have a disability is not my way of shutting you guys out, I'm trying i really REALLY hard at making friends and being more social and im going to start being more social with you guys from now on this popularity kinda snuck up on me and i really had nothing to say because i was so "socially retarded" is a good way to put it. I have faith in my art, i use it as a way of expressing myself and paying homage to my favorite subject: creepypasta. man do i love creepypa

Bronies go nuts, and Nintendo Sucks?Equestria Girls
The trailer to "Equestria Girls" (the humanized MLP spinoff film) finally was released today. Aaaannnd everyone's freaking out. Again.
You know, it actually looks pretty decent. Bronies... please understand: I know you're a major unexpected demographic for the show. I know you enjoy seeing shout-out's become canon within the show, and appreciate how the creators do little things here and there for you. But... the show isn't made for you. This is not Cartoon Network and the target demographic isn't 25 year olds in college. You're a nice addition to the target demographic of little girls, but you are not the driving force behind MLP.
I don't want this to sound mean, but it needs to be said. This is where it becomes very important to understand the fine line between being a fan of the show and thinking that because you've invested so much energy into the show that you're entitled to things.
I'm sure the movie won't be as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It honest

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.
Journals Written:
~xHeartOfaPhoenix http://xheartofaphoenix.deviantart.com/journal/Advertisements-POints-premi-giveaway-365417158
~Snowy-Heart http://snowy-heart.deviantart.com/journal/Giveaway-D-371114455
~Abystoma http://abystoma.deviantart.com/journal/3000-and-100-points-giveaway-371793132
~minieverfeel http://minieverfeel.deviantart.com/

Mini Point Giveaway - Enter Quickly!Winners will be announced soon!
200
1st - 100
2nd - 50
3rd - 30
4th - 10
5th - 10

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

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

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by ~WelshWench, Jul 2, 2007, 12:35:49 PM
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The connection has timed out

Problem loading page

503 Service not available

Is it me or is dA's service shite lately?

I ask because haven't seen much teeth-gnashing or ranting from people lately and my net connection is still as fast as ever on other sites. The problems seem to get worse from around 6.00pm, UK time.

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Mood: Grouchy
Listening to: iPod on shuffle
Reading: My message centre
Watching: The screen
Playing: With UF
Eating: A banana
Drinking: Water

Hourglasses and other irritationsby ~WelshWench

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`ClaireJones Jul 6, 2007 Professional General Artist

Is it just me or does dA have time-outs every fifteen minutes?

I swear the problems occur most about +/-2min at every :00, :15, :30 and :45 interval. The rest of the time it's fine. Slow and bogged down, but fine.

Time-outs I'm used to. What I'm most angry about is that the print deviations I've unstored aren't appearing in my gallery. There were some things I accidentally stored a month ago that I immediately unstored, but even they aren't in the main gallery. But, if I run the gallery statistics, I'm informed that I have over 70 deviations. However, over ~30 show up in the actual gallery. If it was only deviations, I would be more forgiving, but I have a print account that I would like to have available. I've even resubmitted some of the prints to trigger something with the main gallery, but to no avail. They pass inspection, but the main deviation is still AWOL. However, if I follow a direct link to the deviation, I can see it.

All right. I'll stop ranting now. I'm not even supposed to be here.

~WelshWench Jul 6, 2007

It seems to have timeouts all the bloody time (though - and I hesitate to say this in case it put the kybosh on

) it's actually working OK at the moment

The non-apperarance of deviations in your gallery must been down to server lag and/or unsynchronised servers. I notice odd stuff when browsing the category galleries which would fit in with that.

And "supposed to be" be buggered: I'm very glad to see you here

`ClaireJones Jul 8, 2007 Professional General Artist

I've seen that the "unstore deviation" issue has been on the bug list for quite some time. Still, a month? That seems excessive even for an unsynched servers issue.

I'm glad your glad to see me

, but due to recent events, I've substantially limited my time online when under the clairejones username. Although that doesn't stop me from lurking around all the time.

I thought of getting a new username, but figured that I would probably be found out in short order.

Instead, I've spent a lot of time recoding one of my sites and making loads of icons, of all things. I'm kind of devastated right now and feel as though I've lost everything I've worked so hard for these past couple of years. I'm sure I'll figure out something else to do with my time. I know that sounds cryptic, but June was a really bad month.

~WelshWench Jul 9, 2007

I am sorry you've had such a bad time

Wish there was something I could do to help make things a bit better for you.

If you look at the "Weekly Bug List", you'll see stuff that's been there for ever

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~NinthTaboo Jul 5, 2007 Hobbyist General Artist

I've almost given up doing anything on dA besides uploading. The time outs are unbearable (dial-up and a connection by firefox through AOL make it even worse) There are days i wonder why i bother, but then i get homesick for good ol' deviantART, and so back i come.

~WelshWench Jul 6, 2007

I know what you mean. I left dA altogether late last year because I was so hacked off with the sorry state of affairs ... but I came back about 4 or 5 months later to what, as one dA friend called it, my "dysfunctional family"

Sadly, it is still the largest and most active fractal community I've found on the net, so it's a case of grit my teeth and keep plugging away!

*baba49 Jul 4, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Connection is really sucksfull here too. I even made a speed test the other day to make sure that my provider hadn't reduced speed but it's perfectly ok. I start wondering why I should pay for high speed as long as I spend so much time on dA. I suppose I couldn't be slower with a 56k dial up.

~WelshWench Jul 5, 2007

I find myself doing a lot of speed tests lately, too ... for the same reasons as you. I just end up with lots of tabs open and hope that some of them actually get around to loading

Right now, the worst thing is trying to reply to comments in my message centre when the **** site doesn't even have the decency to timeout, it just keeps on and on and on and on , so that the only solution is to refresh th page and completely lose whatever's been typed

*baba49 Jul 5, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

today even the whole layout of the message center looks weird. Looks like they are hackling again big scale

~WelshWench Jul 6, 2007

I think they've been installing new servers, that nay have caused some glitches.

that that's ALL it was!

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