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Superheroes, Mad science and Dragons - Oh my o_0Yep! It's that time of year again. The time of year when I host an OC contest and this time it's back bigger and better than ever. More characters, bigger prizes, challenges and much much more. Just to get you a little more excited? Everyone that faves this article in the next 7 days...
...will be eligible to win 1-month premium membership! :iconlegaspplz:
Now that's exciting. I know you all probably want to see the prize list before you event think about entering so here it is in all it's contest opening glory before half the prizes are even added yet:
1st place:
600

or 3 months membership *AJ333
Commission from *AJ333
Commission from *WingedGenesis5
Commission from ~KenzieLovesMusic21
100 Page Canson Sketch Book and 12 tortilians for shading
Final Fantasy Cloud Figure from *WingedGenesis5
Nato canteen from *AJ333
Toss Up – travel game (loads of fun) from *AJ333
Spray painted note book from *AJ333
Photo print of your choice

Raffle Time!

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Hi everyone!

I’m here to tell you about something exciting. If you like winning points, free commissions, llamas, journal features or anything like that you’ll probably want to keep reading

#The-Classroom is a group where some members are teachers, some are students and a few are both. The goal is to learn from an artist above you for a semester and improve dramatically in your art skills if you put in the work. Personally I can attest if the work is done improvement comes and it’s totally worth the effort.
Right now #The-Classroom is wanting to re-upgrade to super group again and to do this we’re offering a raffle open to all deviants

First the technical stuff:
1. To be entered in this raffle all you have to do is donate 1-10 points. That will get your name in one time. For every 10 points you donate your name will be put in. Aka donate 50

, yo

Daily Literature Deviations for August 6th, 2012
Guidelines | How to Suggest a DLD | Grou

Winter 2011-12 OC Contest: HOME[FINAL UPDATE (8):] CONTEST ENDED. If you need the extension to work until the 4th just note me. If you've already got that permission from me, keep working if you still want to. If you've already finished, thank you so much for entering and good luck! Judging will start sometime around the 5th and winners within the week hopefully. There's 8+ amazing judges this year and I can already tell it's going to be really close!

[END OF UPDATE 8]
[UPDATE 7:] LAST 5 1/2 DAYS LEFT! There's enough entries to go on but if you want to get in on all the great prizes start soon! I will offer a 3 day extension if anyone needs it but after that the contest is over. Good luck guys!!!

[END OF UPDATE 7]
[UPDATE 6:] Due to more requests the deadline has been moved to April 1st but this is the last time this contest will be extended.

At this point there are 9 entries, a few more on the way and things are looking epic. Don't be afraid to promote, you never know if your watchers might want

WHAOOOO CONTEST?!YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Me and :iconAJ333: are hosting a contest! You can draw our characters and stuff! Fun stuff man, fun stuff!
"Draw Myna's and AJ's characters? Um, okay, are they fun characters at least?"
Yeah man! We've got superheroes, electrokinetics, fantasy characters, half-animal people, tribal stuff, and even potato people!
"Even potato people?"
Well, okay, maybe not potatoes, but you can draw those on your own.
"Why should I waste my time drawing your characters?"
UM because we have really cool prizes, like lots of points, and llamas!
"I already have a bunch of DeviantArt llamas. They're kind of annoying and one has been chewing on my featured page all morning--I don't want more!"
But I didn't mean just dA llamas--I mean REAL, actual, live, breathing llamas. We will ship one to you if you win, or even if you get close to winning, and you can ride it to school every day and tether it in the parking lot and be the envy of all your friends.
"Wait, then where are those llamas

Finding My Happy Place (EDIT #3) And a rant...
Stupid Demands from Facebook Users
Why do people demand you do things they already know you do not do? On my Facebook, I had a user message me and tell me they wanted me to draw them a sexy scene with animals. They included that they knew I only drew humans and that I chose not to draw sexy stuff SUCH AS SEX, but that I had to do it anyway. FFFF hellz no. They followed it up with the date I had to have it done by (one day later o.0) and that they were not going to pay for it. They also insisted that I did not watermark it or include a signature. WTF? That is NOT (for those who don't know) how to approach an artist and ask for them to do work for you. I lol'd that user into my blocklist on Facebook. And I will do the same if they come to me on deviantART. Unbelievable arrogance on their part to think that everyone else has to PAY for me to do art for them, but they are so special that they don't have to pay and can make whatever demands

Contest Feature!Hey everyone~ This is the thank you feature for the people who donated points, prizes, etc as well as winners of the contest. I arranged this to look pretty, not to hold one picture over another so keep that in mind as I experiment with :bigthumb: works. Thank you so much everyone!

October challenge!(normal journal submitting seems to down... so I'm trying sta.sh...)
Sorry this was a day late. I didn't realize October started yesterday and yeah... I fail with time xD In defense I've been one day off ever since being drugged into thinking a whole day never existed a few weeks back.

Here's what it is! It's really a self-challenge to better your art skills really fast. The goal is to at least work on a drawing every day for 30 days. So whether it's putting 20 minutes into one drawing for a week or drawing a page of sketches a day or even finishing a whole picture a day, the goal is 30 days of sustained art. You can prove it to us or you can keep it to yourself but it's more fun when you're going up against other people with who's gunna get the most done first etc.
Here's the brave participants!
1. :iconSquirrelGirl15:
2. :iconFlindtasaurus:
3. :iconTatertot88:
4. :iconevilAvatarfan94:
5. :iconEyliana:
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Looks like something you'd like to join too? Why not! Here are

Frequently Asked Questions - F.A.Q. !Finally! I chose the most frequently asked questions and I answered them. Hope this dispelled all your doubts. If you have any - write them down!
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Why lady2?
It's very easy - or so stupid. As a child I watched over and over again Lady Oscar on tape (yes, yes - cassettes are my childhood ...). By registering here it occurred to me that I would like be the second lady

How long have you been drawing?
It's such an obvious question. Isn't it? I will answer like the most - from when I was a little girl. Although it used to be different ... But when it came to draw something in the school, for colleagues, etc. all appealed to me. Even my mom, who needed drawings for her work. Seriously I decided to wake up and start develop my style in 2009. And so to this day I'm not stoping doin' so ...

Have you ever attended to any art school?
No. Never took any art classes. Although I attended some classes - but they ju

I'm Home-Super Epic Long Journal of Trip stuffOk so I'm home. I sorted through 300+ (would have been 500 but I stole net and deleted like 200 things xD or commented and stuff 3 days ago or so) something messages down to 30 right now. I wrote in a note book about the trip and I'll share that with you in an epic long journal.
For those who don't want to read it all here's a summary: The other kids were some of the biggest jerks/airheads/idiots I ever met (minus maybe 3 or 4) and the adults weren't much better minus my 2 group leaders and that made the trip good photo/learning wise, sucky people wise.
For those who do want to read (and I'll love you forever if you want to and do read it all

) I'll post what day and the location for you and then type the journal. It's written like a journal, like the current time is when I'm writing the entry so ignore tense weirdness XD. I'll add photos that go with it as I get them up on dA Here goes nothing!
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Day 1 and 2, Location- Airplane and Killarny in Ireland.
Well

Summer OC Joint Contest- HomeHello! With much, much writing, planning, back and forth and editing, we present *AJ333 and I's joint contest! It runs until September so you'll have plenty of time if you wish to enter and lots of prizes to be won and possibly more coming. We'll be updating the prize list if anyone wishes to donate but that's entirely up to you.
It's an OC contest, you can either draw the couples (strongly encouraged since it earns you a lot more points towards your final score) or you can draw just one if you like.
We hope you have lots of fun, we know we had a lot of fun planning and putting all of this together! Hope you enjoy this and thank you so much before hand! This is going to be exciting.
Please make sure to read all the rules before hand so you don't do something that'll cost you points or won't be accepted, we don't want any of that happening

Hope you'll join and most of all, have fun!
Contest home: http://fav.me/d52m

Joint OC Summer Contest - HOMEUPDATE 3 CONTEST HAS ENDED! Judges have been sent notes to get working. 1/4 judges is done at this time and progress looks good! Be on the lookout sometime next week for results

Thank you everyone who entered! And those who did be sure to go read this journal by *WingedGenesis5 who's offering a thanks for all entrants! - http://fav.me/d58i95j

END OF UPDATE 3
UPDATE 2 The contest is EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 15th. That's right, you got lotsa extra time to work now! There are 18 wonderful entries, almost there for 4-5th placing

END OF UPDATE 2
UPDATE 1: Wow I haven't written an update yet

Oopsie. Well here's a quick one! There's 26 days left to the contest so if you haven't started on an entry yet, you should! There's well over 2,000

in prizes as well as all sorts of really epic stuff! Check out the prize page if you need motivation to enter! And PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS CONTEST. There are so many bonus prizes

Feature # 7 Portrait FeatureA feature of only portraits. Some beautiful art, i'll feature it on my page until the next feature

Awesomesauce contest!I've been wanting to host a contest for a while, so with some time, and careful preparation, me and ~iEatIdiots are finally doing it!!!!! I'm so excited!!!!!!!

So we thought up three themes. Pick your favourite.
Steampunk Pretty self explanatory here. Do you love science fiction and victorian novels mixed together? Do wooden gears and bat like wings spark up your imagination. Exactly. Draw something steampunky here.
Wings WINGS WING WINGS! Oh, how magnificently wonderful wings are! They come in all sorts of different colours and sizes and shapes. Your task is to design a wingless character a pair of wings. Go for it!
Draw our OCs So, can't draw steampunk? Or wings? You want to stick to human, OR, you want to draw our ~~really really awesome~~ characters? Yup.

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Art Competition-2000 points in prizes and growing!

by *AJ333, Jan 11, 2012, 7:19:06 PM
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Have some drawing skills, lack of inspiration and want to win somewhere around 1,000

, some new art supplies, an action figure and some amazing commissions? Well you're in the right place! Welcome to the halfway point of my annual winter OC contest.

Just to kick things off here are all the exciting prizes you could win if you keep reading and decide to join this contest:

_{1st place:
1,000 or 6 months membership (+left over points from the 1,000) from *AJ333
Commission from *AJ333
Commission from *WingedGenesis5
Commission from ~KenzieLovesMusic21
100 Page Canson Sketch Book and 12 tortilians for shading from *AJ333
Final Fantasy Cloud Figure from *WingedGenesis5
Toss Up – travel game (loads of fun) from *AJ333
Spray painted note book from *AJ333
Photo print of your choice from ~AJ333Photography

2nd place:
750 or 3 month membership (+ left over points from the 750) from *AJ333
Traditional sketch commission from *AJ333
Request from =Kinsara
Commission from !Elentari412
Commission from ~KenzieLovesMusic21

3rd place:
450 or 1 month membership (+ leftover points from the 450) from *AJ333
Commission from ~KenzieLovesMusic21

4th place:
250 from *AJ333

5th place:
100 from *AJ333

Llamas:
*AJ333
~AJ333Photography
~PoolofFadedMemories
!Darkhearteddemon
~SquirrelGirl15
~KenzieLovesMusic21
~plainlycryptic
~tearstainedpages
~MynaOphelia
*Rebel-Judd
~Fire-n-IceAngel
~ShadowQueen25

Features:
*AJ333
~SquirrelGirl15
~KenzieLovesMusic21
`TiaVon}

Most exciting part? The prize list keeps growing as people continue to donate and if another 500

are donated a 4th and 5th place will be added!

This contest has a little something for everyone; Fantasy, Si-Fi, Super heroes, Mad Science, hopeless romance, Epic battles and introducing for those of you who lack inspiration: challenges that gain you 10 could-be-curial-to-winning score points in judging! There's 3 stories worth of characters to pick from so who could go wrong here?

2 of the artist that have entered before ended up with DD's and one was featured in the recent Exotique 7 art book. This is no little contest with just a few entries or low quality art, its a major competition!

Here is some art that past annual contests have created:

If you would like more information please check the contest home here: [link] There are links to the up-to-date prize list, character information, rules and all that other good stuff! Be sure to ask any questions you have via comment or note and I'll get to them right away.

Oh and did I mention everyone who faves this article will get a llama from me?

~AJ~

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~Grimmybearz Mar 27, 2012 Student Digital Artist

so we can draw any character base on a theme?

*AJ333 Mar 27, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Yes, any of my characters which are listed in the character jounrals. There are around 10+ characters to choose from that you can draw based on description/bio of their life and pick what to draw.

There are also challenges on the 2nd character page that will gain you 10 extra bonus points should you try to draw them since they're a little more challenging if you want a theme to go by.

There's only 5 days left on the contest though, just so you know

~Grimmybearz Mar 27, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I'll give it a try

*AJ333 Mar 27, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Yay, can't wait

~yupon Mar 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

oh wow!!! i'm in! what generous prizes!

*AJ333 Mar 21, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Yay, can't wait to see your entry

~AnnieMae88 Feb 25, 2012 General Artist

I can't believe I missed this! I'd better get to work right away!

*AJ333 Feb 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

There's still about 20 days left so you're good

~SquirrelGirl15 Jan 15, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I need to get started on a bunch more entries! I've done one so far (haven't uploaded it yet) but I need to do a bunch more

*AJ333 Jan 15, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Yaaaaaaaay

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