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How to be a devious deviant: Take TwoHow to be a devious deviant.

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Thank you! I can't believe I got such a positive response from you guys!

I did say I was going to find time and make the actual article someday. So without rambling on forever, I present to you...
How to be a devious deviant, written by you! You are all so freaking devious!

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Draw for a Child, Get Art BackClosed
You are always welcome to draw something for Katie, but I'm no longer offering art back. She is better now.
Please consider ing this journal if you support it; it may get more exposure, which would give Katie more art.
...So, as my scrap-watchers know, my little sister Katie is sick. (I mentioned it here for those who wanted to leave her a comment.)
Well, her cough worsened and today she is in the hospital with Dad. Her fever hit 105 degrees Fahrenheit, but it is lower now and she is getting the best care that they can give her. It's pneumonia again, and she'll probably be in the hospital for several days before she can come home.
Among other things, she took her Kindle Fire with her, so she has internet access—i.e., I can e-mail her a link to this journal.
Edit: Katie's internet access at the hospital is not very great, so she will be seeing all these pictures when she arrives home! Dad believ

Update on KatieSo, after several days of "she'll probably come home tomorrow," Katie finally came home. She is still sick, but she no longer needs to be on oxygen, so she is resting on the couch, taking medicine, and watching movie after movie.
The Draw for a Child project was an incredible success. Thank you all for participating and advertising; the journal made the footer and we currently have 181 pictures and one short film.
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Over the past few days, you all have proved what a positive thing the internet can be. Approximately 175 people stopped what they were doing to take the time to draw a picture for a sick girl whom they had never met and knew next to nothing about—only hoping that they might make her smile. Nearly 90% of them asked for nothing in return. Another 242 people favorited the journal in the hopes of spreading the word.
Thank you to everyone who favorited, drew, commented, advertised, and submitted the journal to a group. Th

Self-Injury Awareness 2013 Fears vs DreamsThe Facts
March 1st is a day that calls attention to a sensitive subject that takes on many meanings and forms for people. Self-injury, or self-harm, is the act of deliberately harming oneself physically, usually as a mechanism for expressing distress or coping in difficult situations. Self-injury is commonly associated with cutting, but can also refer to burning, scratching, bruising, bleaching, overdosing, some forms of hair pulling and picking, and breaking bones. Binging and purging may also be considered self-injuring behavior.
The reasons behind self-injury and the people who self-injure vary greatly, but one thing to keep in mind is that it does not matter what culture, ethnicity, gender, or age you are: there are people who have injured themselves from all walks of life. Triggering events like bullying, trauma, abuse, school, work pressures, bereavement and difficult relationships can all contribute to the distress one feels that leads them to self-injure, but

Closed ~ Wonderful Wednesday and YouHello Dear Members, Watchers and Visitors
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Share the artistic talents of your watchers or friends
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Draw Your OC With Mine Contest! Great Prizes!

You have TWO WEEKS left to enter! If there are less than 15 entries at the deadline, I'm sorry but I will have to cancel the contest

(if this happens, those who have already entered will still get some prizes for their efforts). There's some really great prizes up for grabs here, so enter while you can!
Welcome to my OC contest!

So many fab prizes to be won here, be sure to take a look! I'd really like to see the entries coming in now - I know a few of you are working on them, but that deadline will come quicker than you think! Don't miss out on these amazing prizes from all our generous deviants and get those entries in!

I'd love more prize donations, too - anything you like! Points, art, features, llamas, premium memberships, prints, stuff from the shop, etc
I'd really appreciate it if you could pimp this contest in your own journal or poll as well to help spread the word and get loads of great entries!

The theme is draw your OC with one of mine

Daily Deviation Suggestion GroupsThere are many +Groups for many different topics, and Daily Deviations are no different! When it comes to suggesting Daily Deviations, there are a few +Groups willing to do so on your behalf. Before we get to these groups, however, there is one special group centred on Daily Deviations: #DD-Catalogue. This is a group that collects those pieces that are featured as Daily Deviations. It is a good place to find Daily Deviations of a certain art genre, resources and more, so feel free to check it out!

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Weekly Giveaway #2 --- CLOSEDWinner is Celestial-Blackrose! (: ♥
Hi everyone! How are you all doing today?
I am a bit late, but here's the second giveaway!
I will try to keep these up on a weekly basis ; w ; ♥
Being given out this week is... 100 points to 1 lucky winner!
To enter, please favorite this journal! I will be using a RNG
on February 27th and whoever wins gets the points. ♥
And that's all! You dont need to watch me or even comment
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Beauty is all around us. The color orange makes me think of: passionate, tropical, warm, citrus, otherworldly.

Thursday: Tree, Olive, Bottle Art Contest!I hope you all had a fantastic Valentine's Day last week! Well done spreading the love to all.

This week, we're continuing the love trend.

We're doing an art creation contest. However, there's a twist -- you must use three pre-determined items in your piece!
We want you to create a deviation including three specific items that revolves around our theme of love:
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Bottle
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Of course, you may use more than the objects above, but all three of those objects must appear. Feel free to create whatever inspires you! Maybe someone is creating a model tree with olive-colored leaves in a bottle to give to his love. Or, maybe two olives are sitting in a tree, sipping wine from a bottle. Whatever your mind creates, we want to see it!
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Week 1, 2013 at #deviant365!Hello Everyone!
I would like to formally welcome each and every one of you to the official #deviant365 group! We have a fantastic year ahead for all of you filled with events, contests, weekly tasks and perhaps most importantly, prizes! Every week we will be posting a task that hopes to get those creative juices flowing in your mind. Sometimes they will be simple, sometimes you might have to submit art, and sometimes they might be a week long task you partake in! But in every case, we hope to make them fun!
Happy New Year, and may these tasks lead you to your greatest endeavor!
This week the task is to answer this question: What are your goals, ambitions, or artistic endeavors for the upcoming year? Comment with your idea, and two deviants who do will win a devWEAR T-Shirt of their choice!
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But suggesting my own work is embarassing
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When we CVs receive self suggestions we treat them the same as we would any other suggestion so you can easily treat a self suggestion the same as you would a submission of your art to a group so more users can see the piece. While we do not guarantee that we

Flash Fiction Month July 2012Preface
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Katie's Storybook Project: Get Commissioned

Journal Entry: Sun Mar 3, 2013, 9:54 AM

Please consider ing this journal if you support it; it may reach a wider audience.

Hello, everyone! Most of you probably remember last January when my little sister Katie was hospitalized for pneumonia and I hosted an event encouraging people to draw pictures for her. It was an overwhelming success, and Katie was thrilled when Dad showed her the pictures in the hospital.

During the project, *bloodytreefrog and ~Freecakebadges were kind enough to donate 3,000 points for Katie (in total). I'm using these points to pull together this storybook project.

Details (please read all before commenting)

The Book

"The Magic of Love" is 14 pages long, including the cover, and I'll commission 17 illustrations for it. The characters are some of Katie's favorite (human) OCs. If you'd like to read the paragraphs that describe your illustration, you may ask me for them at any point in time.

Theme: Love is the most powerful form of magic.

Final Product

Since this is a community initiative, I'll show everyone the result. The final illustrated book will be posted as a PDF for everyone to read!

In the PDF, there will be a clear link to each deviation. (Either the pictures themselves will each be a link, or if I'm too technically inept, I'll caption the pictures with their titles and make links in the captions or Artist's Description. So come up with an awesome title for your piece, just in case!) I'll also make a copy for Katie.

I will not use your picture in any other way.

Donating Points

If you'd like to help, feel free to donate points (please mention that it's for Katie). It will help make sure that I can commission enough people to hopefully finish the project by her birthday.

The Wonderful Donors:

Current total: 3455

Excuse me while I go roll around in my happy tears.

Pictures from "Draw for a Child" last January

The Pictures

Each picture has a number in front of it; you can use the numbers to tell me which one(s) you'd like to draw.

= Nobody has been commissioned to draw this picture yet. (It's up for grabs.)

= Somebody is working on this picture.

= This picture is posted!

Sky: Sunny with very little or no clouds, about noon
Surroundings: A warm, hilly, grassy area; any trees are deciduous (i.e., leafy and not needly)

Pictures without Backgrounds (6)

Christy grins devilishly and elbows Amirra, who blushes and places her hands over her mouth in surprise. Princess Rose and George may or may not be visible in the background, laughing and probably holding hands. Taken by ~spyu98 [link]

(p. 2) Waist-up shot of the bandit, annoyed with a very cranky expression Taken by ~pineapplehunter [link]

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(p. 4) Princess Rose is pleading with George, and she looks like she might cry. George looks at her and doesn't seem to understand. He is dazed and holds her crown in his hand. Taken by ~EvranaWolfsong

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(p. 5) Bust shot of Amirra and Princess Rose. Amirra looks victoriously off to the side; she has just had an idea for solving a problem. Princess Rose, who has just stopped crying, looks hopeful. Taken by ~CanisLupusDingo [link]

(p. 10) Bust or head-and-shoulders shot of Amirra. She looks startled: she has just come up with a good idea for helping Princess Rose. Taken by ~Rbananas [link]

(p. 11) Approx. waist-up shot of Christy holding Doll. (Doll may or may not be visible in the picture.) Christy wears an expression that says "Seriously?" since she can't believe that her friends haven't thought of something. Taken by ~EliDir

(p. 11) Princess Rose joyfully hugs Christy (possibly lifting her off of her feet). Christy, holding Doll, grins. Taken by ~Rbananas [link]

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(p. 1) Princess Rose and George run in the hills; George is holding Princess Rose's crown up high in the air and Princess Rose is trying to get it back. Both are laughing. Taken by ~lythre114

(p. 2) In a valley: The bandit yells at Princess Rose and George. George is silent, and he holds Princess Rose's crown in one hand. Princess Rose looks angry because she thinks the bandit is being unreasonable. Taken by ~misayuu [link]

(p. 5) On a hilltop: Princess Rose is trying to speak while crying and catching her breath, so as you can imagine, it isn't going well. Amirra, concerned, is gently encouraging her to explain why she is so upset. Taken by ~Chinquary

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(p. 6) Alan's room (plain wall or basic furniture background): Princess Rose and Amirra have just come in the room, out of breath. Alan looks concerned; he can tell that they have a problem. Taken by *BenevolentRose [link]

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(p. 7) Alan's room (plain wall or basic furniture background): Princess Rose and Alan kneel on the floor across from each other with an open book between them. Alan is explaining something important to her. Amirra listens; she may or may not be in the picture. Taken by ~lythre114

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(p. 9) Alan lies on the floor of his room, exhausted. Amirra brings a blanket to spread over him. She can be spreading it or holding it in the picture; it doesn't matter. She and Princess Rose look worried because they still can't solve their problem. Taken by ~lythre114

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(p. 10) Princess Rose and Amirra sit on the front steps of their house. (It's a simple house; you may draw it however you like.) Princess Rose is red-faced and ready to cry. Amirra looks sad too; she doesn't know how to help Princess Rose. Taken by `SavageFrog

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(p. 12) In a valley: Princess Rose kisses George (Disney style, nothing gross). Amirra may or may not be visible, smiling in the background. This is the most romantic part of the story (and therefore Katie's favorite part), so feel free to play up the atmosphere! Taken by ~EliDir

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(p. 3) In a valley: The bandit does a dramatic magic spell in which dark clouds gather and green light is involved. (You can invent the rest. Have fun!) The spell is to make George stop loving Princess Rose. The bandit wears an evil, delighted grin, while Princess Rose and George watch, afraid. George is holding Princess Rose's crown at the time. Taken by *Pheoniic

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(p. 4) On top of a hill: Amirra is practicing a magical spell involving pretty colors of light. (It would be visible to passersby.) The details are up to you! Princess Rose, very upset, runs up from behind to talk to her. (This picture is horizontally wide... I need it for the bottom of a page.) Taken by ~pineapplehunter [link]

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(p. 8) Alan's room (plain wall or basic furniture background): Alan does a magic spell that will tell him something important about Princess Rose. (You may invent the shiny details. Have fun!) Alan and Princess Rose are kneeling across from each other, and there is an open book between them for Alan's reference. Amirra watches. This will be a full 8.5x11 page! Taken by *babygpanda [link]

How to Join

Comment or note me to let me know (a) that you're interested, (b) which picture(s) you'd like to draw,* and (c) what your commission prices are. (A link to them is fine.) If I believe that the price is reasonable and affordable for me, I will officially commission you to draw your desired picture(s). I'll pay you once you're done, but if you are uncomfortable with this, I would be willing to pay a percentage up front.

For your sake and mine, let's say that one person can sign up for up to 3 pictures.

*I'll double-check with you to affirm that you didn't accidentally pick the wrong one.

If it helps, this is what I can pay on average.

per backgroundless picture (the first category)

165

per picture with easy background (the second category)

400

per picture with complex background (the third category)

If I have points left over, I'll commission even more art for Katie! If I run out of points, I will attempt to draw the remaining pictures by myself in time for Katie's birthday.

Yes, Katie got a haircut. She watched The Parent Trap, found a scissors, and yeah... Mom noticed afterwards and took her to a barber shop.

If everyone finishes their pictures in 2 weeks (by March 16^th), the book will be ready in time for Katie's birthday!

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Katie's Storybook Project: Get Commissionedby `Luna--Rose

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Project: Commissioning 17 illustrations for a book for a child
Illustrations: Humans, occasional magic
Goal: To make a little girl smile

It's about time I was able to get this posted! I'll try to be online as often as possible to contact everyone.

Thank you.

Edit: All slots are taken! However, I'm going to have some extra points, so please comment with your commission info if you're interested in taking a commission from me. I'll probably ask for these same characters.

love 3 3

joy 3 3

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

neutral 1 1

~EliDir Mar 18, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Here's the second one! [link]

*Pheoniic Mar 16, 2013 Student Digital Artist

My situation is the same as EvranaWolfsong!

_{...I thought I would have more time today but tiredness has set in and I need to pack all my things to go back to college again. (That includes my entire workstation)}

That being said, I am in the refining part of my process..and I could probably submit it now as it is and it would be okay.
_{(All the major elements are blocked in and shaded.)}
But I need to polish it a bit more before i am ready to post it.

I'm quite proud of it so I hope you like it when I finish it tomorrow!

My Apologies!

`Luna--Rose Mar 17, 2013 General Artist

I understand.

I can't wait to see it!

*Pheoniic Mar 17, 2013 Student Digital Artist

Yup and I'm done!

I hope it works functionally for the page. Like placement of the text and everything.

...It's a vertical drawing after all.

Also nearly everything is editable and on its own layer (including my signature) so if you want any modifications I can do so!

`Luna--Rose Mar 24, 2013 General Artist

It works perfectly.

*Pheoniic Mar 24, 2013 Student Digital Artist

Excellent!

~EvranaWolfsong Mar 16, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I'm sorry, I'm not going to have mine done today. I'm a good way into into it, but I'm not going to have it done until tomorrow. I'm sorry X{C

`Luna--Rose Mar 16, 2013 General Artist

If you finish it tomorrow, I can still get it in there.

~Rbananas Mar 16, 2013 Student General Artist

One piece down! [link] I'll post the other later today.

`Luna--Rose Mar 16, 2013 General Artist

Thanks!

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