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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

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

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

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

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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Violin Contest & 116 Entries

Journal Entry: Sat Mar 31, 2007, 3:02 AM

Mood: Artistic

Stock Rules

If you use my stock, you'll have to link back to *liam-stock in the desricption.

Send me a note or leave a comment with the link to your work.

If you want to use my stock outside dA, you'll need my permission.

You can use my stock for prints! But it would be great if you inform me.

Rules

DEADLINE: March 31st

Everybody can enter

Your submission has to be a Digital Art Work

You have to use at least one stock from my stock account - you also can use my stock as reference if you want to submit a Digital Drawing etc. You can find stocks in my gallery and please don't forget to look at my scraps!

You just can submit one entry.

You have to make your entry specifically for this contest so you have to add a link in your discription to this account.

Your entry has to fit into the theme - so it has to be something with or about violins.

No racist, pornographic or other forbidden content!

How to enter: You just have to send me a note with the link to your work! Please let me know that this is an entry for the contest in your note!

You also can do requests if you couldn't find a good stock!

Judging

On April 1st I'll select 10 finalists. There are so many beautiful entries that it's possible that I'll select some more. There are two criteria:

the idea

the quality
Then I'll start a poll where everybody can vote for his own favourite. Of course I'll select my own favourite too but I promise that I'll orientate towards the puplic choice. But this doesn't mean that the winner of the poll will be the official contest winner!
I hope everybody understand this and if there are still questions, please ask!

Prizes

1st Place:

3 month subscription by *liam-stock

3 month subscription by ^Elandria

3 month subscription by `Princess-of-Shadows

print by `JunkbyJen up to $10

sculpture (either felted or polymer clay) based on the entry by ~VegaLightsMyWay

special stock pack by *liam-stock

special stock pack by `UnicornReality

special stock pack by ~LongStock

special stock pack by ~Iardacil-stock

special stock pack by =Henibas

special stock request pack by ~Gracies-Stock

personalized stamp by `JunkbyJen

animated or not animated stamp by ~Fantasy-Stock

animated avatar or stamp by ~annie252

poem or short story based on the entry by *HiddenRelevance

journal feature by: *liam-stock *Eisblume ~sempiterna-stock `EmberRoseArt ~intergalacticstock ^Elandria ~annie252 ~LongStock ~PersephoneStock ~Gracies-Stock ~Alicelefay ~Synthexstock =Henibas ~WCS-Wildcat *HiddenRelevance

2nd Place:

3 month subscription by *liam-stock

sculpture (polymer clay) based on the entry by ~VegaLightsMyWay

special stock pack by *liam-stock

special stock pack by `UnicornReality

special stock pack by ~Iardacil-stock

special stock pack by =Henibas

special stock request pack by ~Gracies-Stock

personalized stamp by `JunkbyJen

animated avatar or stamp by ~annie252

journal feature by: *liam-stock *Eisblume ~sempiterna-stock `EmberRoseArt ~intergalacticstock ^Elandria ~annie252 ~LongStock ~PersephoneStock ~Gracies-Stock ~Alicelefay ~Synthexstock =Henibas ~WCS-Wildcat *HiddenRelevance

3rd Place:

1 month subscription by *liam-stock

sculpture (polymer clay) based on the entry by ~VegaLightsMyWay

special stock pack by *liam-stock

special stock pack by `UnicornReality

special stock pack by ~Iardacil-stock

special stock pack by =Henibas

special stock request pack by ~Gracies-Stock

personalized stamp by `JunkbyJen

animated avatar or stamp by ~annie252

journal feature by: *liam-stock *Eisblume ~sempiterna-stock `EmberRoseArt ~intergalacticstock ^Elandria ~annie252 ~LongStock ~PersephoneStock ~Gracies-Stock ~Alicelefay ~Synthexstock =Henibas ~WCS-Wildcat *HiddenRelevance

More prizes will come!
If you would like to donate a prize, let me know! Send me a note or leave a comment! I would be very glad and thankful!

It would be also great if you can support this contest in your journals!

to all donators

And special thank to everybody who support my contest in their journals:

Entries

1.

by `EmberRoseArt

2.

by ~ErebusOdora

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by !unknown-elfy

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by *SylwiaS

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by *Rag-Dolly

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by ~Ezaka

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by ~nianiniel

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by ~dauntiemagic

9.

by ~Aerich86

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by ~Relient-K

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by ~Eternal-Midnight

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by ~MelissaGriffin

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by ~arya-dwipangga

14.

by *SAB687

15.

by ~annie252

16.

by `JunkbyJen

17.

by ~SilkenWebs

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by !Scarlett1313

19.

by ~SHADOWZRWITHU

20.

by ~drherbey

21.

by ~tinynarna

22.

by *IMM0RTALIZED-KA0S

23.

by ~lyricaldevastation

24.

by ~celestial-void

25.

by ~terrasoul

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by ~DeadRosesForever

27.

by ~KittyKati727

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by ~ShadeHuntress

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by ~Green-Woman

30.

by ~Aegils

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by *TayaRavena

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by ~Damnedin

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by ~SapphireHaze

34.

by ~design-by-devlin

35.

by ~saphia

36.

by *CoolBlue-Gord10

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by ~damnedEvans

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by ~Lacrimatorium

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by *Cinnamoncandy

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by !tosetti

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by ~870

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by ~lonesomeaesthetic

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by ~WCS-Wildcat

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by ~arros14

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by *allison712

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by ~DianaFernandes

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by ~amiens

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by ~Nilaihah

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by ~ictenbey

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by ~snowgod

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by ~blonde-thinking

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by ~The-name1ess

53. :thumb49839036:
by =Shadowelve

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by ~KittyD

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by ~broken-rose-petals

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by ~snowcryztal

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by =NessaPalmer

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by ~ASentimentalGuy

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by =Amjara

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by ~xRevival

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by ~VanillaDream

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by ~Tintz

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by !Rebecca-Parker

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by =silber-englein

65. :thumb50213611:
by ~Behana

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by ~honey-and-venom

67. :thumb50231976:
by ~twilightstars

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by ~AdroVonCrow

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by ~wynnter89

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by ~InnMemoriam

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by ~FuocoGotico

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by ~Tempest116

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by ~gsdark

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by !deadgirlpoem

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by ~MrsLeonScottKennedy

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by ~starxdust

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by ~jvgce

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by `JZino

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by ~Palandurwen

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by ~topazcatseye

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by !MrRedsDesigns

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by !one-with-shadows

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by !Frostwake

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by `arhcamt

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by ~maelinn

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by *sunmoongirl

87. :thumb51147478:
by ~restmlin

88 :thumb51270637:
by ~fir3torqu3

89.

by ~G-Unit23

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by ~randomstarlight

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by ~Rose-among-thorns

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by ~art-by-david

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by ~angelandluci

94.

by ~Podopteryx

95.

by ~eggy-chan

96. :thumb49857798:
by ~JustWhisper

97.

by *Sindah

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by ~glamgirl

99.

by ~replicant

100. :thumb51889161:
by *FrozenStarRo

101.

by ~RottenBiomass

102. :thumb51855330:
by !to-Revelation

103.

by ~HakuhoNoKaze

104.

by ~ardunt

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by *Iardacil

106.

by ~cryingsorceress

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by ~ZookaJo

108.

by ~moondoll

109.

by ~kassieadelaide

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by ~crying-shinigami

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by `cosmosue

112.

by ~sattch

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by ~Somasorsa

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by !Silent-dream

115.

by *misslyka

116.

by ~Radyga

117 Comments

Violin Contest & 116 Entriesby *liam-stock

Journals / Personal

©2007-2013 *liam-stock

~snowcryztal May 3, 2007 Student Artist

Is there a winner yet in this contest, sorry if I'm slow

..just haven't heard anything more about it..

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~ardunt Apr 4, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I am trying my best not to be :antsy:

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~animehamster Apr 1, 2007

wow...

through my whole life (12 years since yesterday was my birthday

), i hav never seen so many people who luv the violin...

BUT IT'S SOOOO AWESOME!

i play the violin and i'm also in an orchestra. i've played the violin for about...thinking... 8 years now!

it takes patience and hardwork to become good.

i won't be able to submit anything since i dont kno how to do digital art work

but do u think i'll be able to send u a poem (not for the contest) to see if you would like it? it's going to be about a violin!

i'll talk about this contest in my journal so the viewers will might want to vote for the deviations posted! Good Luck! (u might need it!

)

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~Radyga Mar 31, 2007

So many great entries! This is going to be a tough one to judge! haha

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Mood: Confused

~Somasorsa Mar 31, 2007

I dont see my entry in the list. Just in case you've forgotten it's here [link]

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~Wicasa-stock Mar 28, 2007

I feel sorry for the judges that have to vote on this one. There are some excellent entries so far. AND SO MANY!

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*liam-stock Mar 28, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

_{There will be an open poll! I'll select 10 finalists and everybody can vote!}

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~Wicasa-stock Mar 29, 2007

Nice. Well done and who would have thought there'd be so many entries for this title? I would enter but I have so much going on.

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*sunmoongirl Mar 25, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

Hi! I placed your contest in my journal, looks like fun!

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*liam-stock Mar 26, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

_{Thank you}

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