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Journal Entry: Thu Jan 31, 2013, 6:08 PM



Hi guys! Sorry for my inactivity as of late; I just started a new semester at college and the workload is a lot heavier than I expected. I'll try to answer all your messages as soon as I can; sorry if I've left any of you hanging!

So anyway, it's been a while since I've posted anything, and it's probably going to be quite a while longer before I post anything else. Part of the reason is I don't like posting things when I have unanswered messages sitting in my inbox, and the other reason is that I can't use Photoshop.

Yesterday, something went wrong when I tried to boot up my computer and I had to do a system restore to set things straight. I scanned my computer for viruses and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it-- I think I just left my computer on sleep mode for too long which messed with my Adobe product settings or something? idk. Anyway, when I tried opening Photoshop today, a prompt came up telling me to re-activate the software.

WELL, as luck would have it, my version of Photoshop is balls-old (CS1) and as a result, it's no longer supported by Adobe's official activation software. BALLS.

Fortunately, Photoshop was the only thing to have been affected. Flash and Illustrator both seem to work just fine, and Imageready still works as well. I'd seriously freak out if Imageready broke because that's the software I use to do the animating portion of my pixel art and the software has been discontinued for quite some time now.

ANYWAY, Photoshop is still broken and now I have to find a way to fix it, which hopefully shouldn't take too long but it still puts a delay on the projects I've meant to complete which have been delayed for quite some time by my classes already. OTL;

So if you have commissioned me, I'm sorry but it's going to take a bit longer for me to complete your commission. I WILL finish them, though, because it would be a dickish thing for me to do if I just abandoned them because of a minor inconvenience. (This is why I don't accept payment until after I've finished commissions. Less guilt on my end, haha)

This will also mean, however, that the Paypal commissions I planned to open after this batch will have to be pushed back farther... yet again.

Oh and Post-Mortem is going to have to be put on hold again. OH BOY. At least I can still work on the traditional portion while I work to get this resolved.



TL;DR: Photoshop broke and stuff is going to be delayed. Sorry about that.





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Want to help me mess with someone's head? #7

Journal Entry: Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:27 AM



#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6

Salutations, Awesome Squad! Thank you guys for your continuing support in these features; you really bring a smile to my face! :)

ANYWAY, I'm sure that those of you who have been following my journals for a while know what's up, but for those of you who are new to this whole shindig, I'll describe what's going on.

You see this artist? :iconoceanleviathan: Today, we are going to mess with her head. ~SvEtLaNa73 was kind enough to suggest our star =OceanLeviathan to me, so let's go ahead and dive right into this!

So as far as I know. =OceanLeviathan doesn't watch me. She don't know that I'm writing this journal, and she probably don't even know I exist, which is a good thing considering the nature of these events.

I'd like to ask you guys to go send =OceanLeviathan a little love. Tell her nice things about her artwork, send her a llama, maybe :+fav: some of her artwork if it appeals to you, and possibly even watch her if you'd like to see more of her work in the future. Any acts of kindness are welcome, and if you think of something else I haven't mentioned, by all means go ahead and do it! :D

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH: You guys can't make any direct mention of me. Leave cryptic hints if you really want to, but I want =OceanLeviathan to log in to an inbox full of love and have NO IDEA where it all came from. :)

Here are some works from her gallery that I like:



And here are some starting stats, in case anyone likes comparing before-and-after statistics:

32,470 pageviews
269 watchers
1018 llamas

So, Awesome Squad, what do you think? Will you help me mess with this artist's head? ;)

Thanks again to ~SvEtLaNa73 for the suggestion! If you guys would like to suggest an artist to me, please leave it as a comment here: [link] and I'll consider featuring them later. :) (Just bear in mind that I get a lot of suggestions and I won't be able to feature everyone! ;v; )

Also, if you guys want to do a feature of your own like this, you're more than welcome to do so! In fact, if you do, send me a link to your journal and I'll feature it here as well. <3

If you want to do your own but don't know who to feature, feel free to check the comments of this journal: [link] Just be sure to leave a reply to the suggestion to let other people know!






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Whoops

Journal Entry: Sat Jan 5, 2013, 9:00 PM



So I was going to make art and stuff but a bunch of stuff happened. Some of it was pretty awesome (went to go see a movie, hung out with ~Triforce-Kun, and went to a spa/bath house), some of it was pretty awful (not being able to sleep because A BAJILLION FUCKING CRICKETS INVADED MY ROOM HOLY SHIT) and some of it was just inane (got hooked on Neopets again *sobbu*)

ANYWAY now I gotta play a bunch of catch-up because there's a bunch of art I owe and also lots of personal art I want to do too but probably won't have the time to do much of it any time soon because my time-management skills are balls-awful. Also the buffer for my comic ran out so I gotta bust my balls to work on that as well.

I feel like it might sound like I'm complaining a lot, but I'm really not. I just tend to sound really whiny whenever I write to-do lists for some reason. Not really sure why. :shrug:



This journal feels like it's missing something, so I'll just say that I really like coffee but sometimes it gives me runny poops.

I know right now you're like "ugghh medli we didn't need to know that" but someday I'll open up an online store and "coffee gives medli runny poops" will be a promotional code that magically gives you your very own limousine-yacht and the people who didn't bother remembering that bit of information will totally miss out on everything while the people who remembered will get to have super-cool limousine-yacht adventures. Well not really, but I did manage to waste some extra space in this journal entry, which was my original intention.

WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS





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Want to help me mess with someone's head? #6

Journal Entry: Sun Dec 30, 2012, 10:20 PM



#1 #2 #3 #4 #5

WOW I AM WAY OVERDUE FOR ONE OF THESE THINGS

Anyway, howdy, Awesome Squad! If you've participated in these events before, welcome back and thank you so much for your previous participation! :la: If you're new, then I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I do! ;)

AT ANY RATE, I've got the urge to mess with someone's head again. Anyone care to join me? ;D

My victim star today is this fantastic artist! :iconpopuluxe: In case you didn't catch it the first time, today we're going to mess with :iconpopuluxe: ~Populuxe's head. ~UltraBoo was kind enough to suggest this artist to me. :)

As far as I know, this user knows nothing about me. She doesn't watch me, she doesn't have any forum posts so she probably hasn't seen me in the forums, and she probably doesn't know I exist at all... which is absolutely fantastic given what I'm about to ask you guys to do ;D

What I'd like to ask you guys to do is send her a little positivity. Send her a llama, tell her nice things about her artwork, maybe give her a :+fav: here and there if you see anything that strikes your fancy, or maybe even watch her if you'd like to see more of her stuff in the future. :) Any acts of kindness are welcome, and if you think of anything else that might make her smile, go ahead and do it!

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH! You guys can't make any direct mention of me. I want her to log in to an inbox filled with love and have absolutely no idea where it all came from. As far as that's concerned, I don't exist-- though you can leave cryptic hints and messages to further confuse her, if you'd like. ;)

Here are some things in her gallery that I like:



Aaaaand here are her starting stats, in case anyone likes to compare statistics:

1881 pageviews
84 watchers
12 llamas

So, Awesome Squad, what do you guys think? Will you help me out? ;D



Thanks again to ~UltraBoo for the suggestion! If you guys would like to suggest an artist to me, please leave it as a comment here: [link] and I'll consider featuring them later. :) (Just bear in mind that I get a lot of suggestions and I won't be able to feature everyone! ;v; )

Also, if you guys want to do a feature of your own like this, you're more than welcome to do so! In fact, if you do, send me a link to your journal and I'll feature it here as well. <3

If you want to do your own but don't know who to feature, feel free to check the comments of this journal: [link] Just be sure to leave a reply to the suggestion to let other people know!






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Livestream (Offline)

Journal Entry: Sat Dec 29, 2012, 7:39 PM



Gonna be working on pixel art! Stop on by if you want to see.

No commentary this time, but I'll have music playing in the background. If it doesn't suit your taste, feel free to mute it or request a different song and I'll see if it's in my library. I won't go on YouTube, though, because that interferes with the stream.

Anyway, you can find the link here:

[link]

(also sorry if the stream cuts out; my internet connection has been a bit spotty lately)





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Contest RESULTS

Journal Entry: Sun Dec 23, 2012, 11:06 PM



AFTER A LONG AND ARDUOUS JUDGING PROCESS (that only really took a couple days), a very clean-cut contest came to a close (alliteration aaaahhh). Since I am balls-awful at writing introductions and this is taking waaaay longer to write than it should, here are the winners!

Third Place


Coming in third place, winning a one-month premium membership (or the point equivalent of 396 :points:) and a free request is...

~bundleofstring with "Post Mortem hiatus blooper!"


Second Place


Coming in second place, winning a three-month premium membership (or the point equivalent of 636 :points:) and a free request is...

~Static-Thing with "Being Stalked!"

:bigthumb340596053:

First Place


Finally, coming in first place, winning a one-year premium membership (or the point equivalent of 2396 :points:) and a free request is...

*newdidda with "The obvious reason!"



Please let me know what you'd like for your requests and if you guys would prefer receiving a premium membership or the points! If you do not contact me within 24 hours, I'll contact you, so... yeah. You're good either way, but the sooner you contact me, the sooner you'll get your prizes. :P

WAIT BUT THAT'S NOT ALL
Because I had a few points left over, I'm going to divide up the rest of my points and give them to all the other entrants. It's not much, but I hope it's acceptable. ;v; <3

Anyway, thank you guys so much for participating in my contest; it was a blast! And to everyone else: Please do go check out these entries and the galleries of the people who drew them. They are absolutely fantastic! <3

:thumb340596053:





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FOR ANY OF YOU WHO MISSED THE STREAM

Journal Entry: Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:04 PM





This is all you need to see.

Screenshot courtesy of ~Triforce-Kun. [original post] (you should go follow her because she's awesome!)



ALSO I'M GONNA ANNOUNCE CONTEST WINNERS SOON so keep an eye out for that if it suits your fancy. :]





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I know it's a bit late for this, but...

Journal Entry: Wed Dec 19, 2012, 9:11 PM



Quick last-minute reminder that my contest is still going, and you've got about three hours left to enter, if any of you want to make a last-minute entry.  [link] Submissions are closed! Now we're going to judge the hell out of your entries. ;)


Judges: I'll send you a note detailing the judging process when the submission process is over. :)


...this journal is awfully empty so here are the entries so far. Go check them out!
:thumb340596053:





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Contest reminder, commissions (not really), + Xmas

Journal Entry: Thu Dec 13, 2012, 10:08 PM



Hi guys! :wave:

First off, my contest has about 5 days before the deadline. Prizes include premium memberships (first place includes a YEAR's premium!) and free art, so if you're into that kind of stuff, go check it out! ;)

Secondly, I know that I said I was going to open commissions this week, but that looks like it won't be happening-- I misjudged the amount of work I had to do for finals week, so I'll hold those off until the semester ends (in a week or so). Timing might not be so great because of the contest, but we'll see how things turn out.

Lastly, I just wanted to show you guys my Christmas tree. I got tired of setting up our usual plastic Christmas tree, so I decided to set up something with a little more machismo this year.







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SO I HEARD YOU LIKE PIXEL ART

Journal Entry: Tue Dec 11, 2012, 7:06 PM



So normally I don't write these kinds of journals, but this really caught my attention and it looks SUPER-COOL and I wanted to share it with you folks.

Some of you may be familiar with :iconcyangmou: *Cyangmou, who is an amaaaaaaaazing pixel artist. Seriously, his stuff is absolutely fantastic and I have SO MUCH RESPECT for his work. I suggested one of his works as a DD one time; you should check out his work if you haven't seen it already. :la:



ANYWAY, *Cyangmou and a couple of his buddies have been working on a snes-style RPG called SEYKEN, WHICH LOOKS PRETTY FRIGGIN' COOL BY THE WAY and they need some funding to finish their game.



I'm not going to outright say "GO THROW MONEY AT THIS GAME," but if it suits your fancy, please do check out their Indiegogo campaign. If it looks like something you would like to help bring to fruition, go ahead and make a contribution.

Thanks so much, guys! <3

Indiegogo
SEYKEN @dA
official website





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well damn (hiatus maybe)

Journal Entry: Fri Nov 30, 2012, 6:22 PM



(sorry if this shows up twice in your inbox; I don't think this posted correctly the first time and I thought some of you guys might like to know where I've been and where I'll be off to)

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of activity lately. This past week has really been kind of a shitstorm for me.

This is probably going to be a long, emotional journal, so if you don't feel like reading my shit, feel free to press the "back" button now. Don't mind the hidden comments below; this is a recycled journal entry and all the hidden comments were related to the entry that USED to be at this URL. The reason why I didn't bother writing a new journal was because I didn't want this to be on my front page.

Some background info

So I have an issue. Well, a few of them, really. Normally they're really quite manageable, but this past week, they all blew up in my face at once leaving me feeling pretty drained and pathetic, to be honest.

So what are my issues? Well first off, I have problems with time management. This isn't really a big secret or anything; I've mentioned it in a few of my previous journal entries so this isn't really anything new. I'm terrible at managing my own time and I'm terrible with remembering dates.

Second, I have the awful habit of becoming a total recluse whenever I feel overwhelmed. This impacts both my online and IRL social behavior, but in different ways. Online, I tend to isolate myself. I stop checking messages on dA, I become inactive on Tumblr (unless I'm in a REALLY bad state, during which I post hysterical text posts), and I just basically cut myself off from most forms of communication. I really had to force myself to even write this journal.

IRL, I still isolate myself, but in different ways. I bottle up my emotions and pretty much never make it known if something is bothering me, which works pretty well most of the time until the accumulated shit of however many months it has been since my last breakdown becomes too much and I basically turn into either The Incredible Rage-Hulk or a big pile of sobbing mess.

Third, I get intimidated REALLY easily. I try not to pay too much heed to what other people think about me, but in truth, those kinds of things really do matter to me. This can work both with me and against me. On good days when I'm feeling confident, this drives me to be active in the community and help other people wherever I can. On bad days, it does just the opposite: because I care too much about what other people think of me, I become isolated and withdrawn, avoiding talking to people because I'm afraid of their criticism.

It's not JUST people I'm intimidated by, either-- I'm really intimidated by big numbers, or more specifically a large volume of input from a lot of different sources at once. This is why it takes me so long to reply to messages sometimes: I just see that big, scary number at the top of my page, realize that every one of those is a person (or a spambot) who was kind enough to leave a comment or a fave, or one of my friends who wants feedback on their artwork, and instead of manning up and dealing with it, I basically wuss out and run away.

In more visual terms, this is my reaction:



Geez, that intro bit was way longer than I would have liked it to be. I hope this doesn't end up being a 10-page essay or anything

The main problem

SO, I have all those above issues that I talked about and whatnot. They're usually pretty manageable. Usually. Until, that is, something comes along and kicks over my emotional tower of blocks and ruins everything forever.

In the past couple weeks, I've been busy with school. Usually it takes me a while to get readjusted whenever I enter a new semester, though this semester I've been having more difficulty than usual in doing so. I think this is mostly because my Mondays and Wednesdays are set up in such a fashion that prevents me from really getting anything done aside from schoolwork.

Basically this semester has been kind of taxing to me mentally because I'm back to taking "real" classes with "actual" homework and exams this semester instead of mostly doing art classes for my major.

So there's that... and I also recently found out that I'm probably going to have to go back to a fourth year of community college.

Personally, I'm not too upset about this in itself. I actually like community college; it's cheap and close to home so I don't have to worry about housing. What I DO have to worry about, though, is what's at home.

I haven't told either of my parents this yet because I'm absolutely terrified of how they'll react. My dad probably won't react too badly because he had to stay in school for a prolonged period of time due to switching majors, but my mom's potential reaction is what scares me the most.

During my first year of college, my mom made fun of one of my friends for staying in community college for four years, calling her a "loser." That phrase didn't really hold much significance then-- at most, I was irritated at my mother for talking rudely about my friend.

But then the end of my second year of college rolled around, and it was clear that I wouldn't be able to transfer to a larger university due to my lack of credits and my mother being diagnosed with colon cancer.

Then the end of my third year came around and I had applied to a number of universities and art colleges, my mother had undergone and finished treatment by this time, and though I was still short a few credits (some of the classes I had taken hadn't transferred to all the universities I wanted to apply to) , but I worked out a plan to finish those during this semester and the summer. I was feeling a mix of emotions-- panicky that I wouldn't be able to transfer in time, but also excited because my education seemed to actually be going somewhere. In the midst of all this, I fucked up. hard.

Somehow, I missed the deadlines for sending transcripts to most of the schools I wanted to transfer to because I was stupid and fucking complacent that I had completed step 1 that I forgot that I actually had to complete step 2 in order to proceed. I just fucked up so hard and I fell flat on my face and landed in a big fat pile of wet shit and I fucking hate myself for it.

Suddenly, every single one of my issues that I had managed to keep straight exploded into a clusterfuck of raw emotion and sent me into a downward spiral into self-loathing. My mother's comment from three-and-a-half years ago hit me in the face like a sack of bricks, as the realization sank in that I was going to be the loser who went to community college for four years because I couldn't manage to grow the fuck up and act like a reasonable fucking adult.

In a state of panic, I tried to see if I could graduate from my community college with an AA so that my three years in community college wouldn't be for nothing, but all my credits were wrong because I had been taking classes to TRANSFER, not to graduate.

Basically my only choices right now are to go to a private art school that I'll probably have a hard time affording or go back to a fourth year of community college and be that "deadbeat loser" my mom hates.

feels

Needless to say, I feel like shit.

I feel like I just shattered my parents' expectations of me. They had really high hopes for me from kindergarten all the way up to my senior year in high school. I was in honors program for the vast majority of those years and I scored high in most of my tests. I feel like I've let them down and I'm just waiting for shit to happen when they eventually find out how much I've fucked up.

I feel like a wreck for letting MYSELF down when I promised myself I'd actually get something right without having my hand held the whole way for once, but instead I've effectively fucked myself over.

I feel like a terrible person for letting that affect me so much that I couldn't even write a damn "thank you" for all the birthday wishes and gifts you guys were generous enough to give me and I feel like an ungrateful twat for not telling you guys that I love you often enough.

I feel like a terrible friend because while all this has happened, my friends go through problems of their own and I can't be bothered to let them know that I care because I'm too scared to talk to anyone.

I feel like an attention whore just for writing this journal and I feel awful for knowing that I'll probably be too afraid to reply to anyone who actually does bother to comment.

I feel like an irresponsible asshole for opening point commissions then not working on them even though I should clearly have enough time to work on them if I bothered to actually manage my goddamn time correctly.

I feel like a lazy writer because I haven't bothered to post a proper update since my comic was featured on SmackJeeves.

Sometimes when I'm driving I feel like I should floor the gas until I'm going at 100 mph and just ram my car into the most solid wall I could find. Those thoughts don't usually last very long, though.

I feel really vulnerable in general. I'm afraid that I'm just not good enough to do anything even remotely useful. I know I should just be appreciative that there are people who do support me, but I feel naked and hurt, like I can't deal with anything I've been able to deal with before.

For some reason I keep thinking back to this comment I received on my comic:
Absolutely blasphemous.
That comic had no comedy in it what-so-ever. There was absolutely no reason for me to scroll through it and waste 7 seconds of my time. I'd rather be writing comments like these than to read your filthy humorless comics.

...and even though I was able to handle it just fine when I first got it, right now it feels like one more arrow through my chest to add to the several that were already there. It's just one fucking comment written by someone who clearly had too much time on their hands, but it still bothers me because I'm afraid this person might be speaking the truth.

I guess it's a little silly to be worrying about something as stupid as a negative comment on my comic when I clearly have bigger things to worry about.

Hiatus?

This whole ordeal has been really taxing to me and I don't know if I'll be able to devote any time to dA in the coming weeks. I might have to extend my absence and just take a hiatus or something.

idk, maybe this will turn out like one of those "I'M GOIN ON HIATUS GUYS" "WAIT NVM I ONLY HAD TO LEAVE FOR LIKE FOUR HOURS I'M BACK AGAIN" situations, but in case you guys don't hear from me for a while, I just wanted to make it known why I might be inactive.

This means that I won't be working on commissions until I'm emotionally stable again because it's really hard for me to do not-vent art in this state. If any of the three of you who have ordered a commission want to cancel or change an order, feel free to leave a note in my inbox. I probably won't get back to you for a while, but I'll get around to reading it before I'm ready to start again.

I'm really sorry about all this, guys. Thank you if you've read this far and I'm sorry for being a buttface this past week.





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Want to help me mess with someone's head? #5

Journal Entry: Sat Nov 24, 2012, 10:24 PM



#1 #2 #3 #4

Well howdy there, Awesome Squad! Thank you once again for helping me out with these features. It always puts a smile on my face to see people who are so willing to help brighten someone else's day!

So anyway, I'd like your help to mess with someone's head again. Would you care to join me? ;)

The star of the show today is a fantastic artist known as :iconshortiebutt: *ShOrtiEBuTT. Once again, that is :iconshortiebutt: *ShOrtiEBuTT, who was suggested to me by =PixelScreams.

As far as I'm aware, this user knows nothing of me-- she doesn't watch me, and as far as she is concerned, I don't exist. What I'd like you guys to do for me is go to her page and leave her a little positivity. Give her a llama, leave her some nice comments about her profile or artwork, poke around her gallery a bit and maybe :+fav: some things if they suit your fancy and maybe tell her why you like them-- and hell, if you REALLY like her work and you'd like to see more of it in your inbox, you can watch her if you'd like to. :D Any acts of kindness are welcome, so if you have thought of other ways to express some kindness toward her that I haven't listed here, please go ahead and do it!

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH-- You guys can't make any direct mention of me. I want her to log in to a bajillion messages filled with love and have absolutely no idea where it all came from. As far as that's concerned, I don't exist-- though you can leave cryptic hints and messages to further confuse her, if that's what you're in the mood for. :giggle:

Here are some things from her gallery that I've taken a liking to:



Aaaaand here are her starting stats, in case anyone likes statistics:

1751 pageviews
122 watchers
25 llamas

So, Awesome Squad, will you help me mess with this user's head? ;)



Thanks again to =PixelScreams for the suggestion! If you guys would like to suggest an artist to me, feel free to leave a comment or a note  and I'll consider featuring them later. :) (Just bear in mind that I get a lot of suggestions and I won't be able to feature everyone! ;v; )

Also, if you guys want to do a feature of your own like this, you're more than welcome to do so! In fact, if you do, send me a link to your journal and I'll feature it here as well. <3






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Livestream (Offline)

Journal Entry: Fri Nov 23, 2012, 9:57 PM



Gonna be working on some Post-Mortem for a while! I'll be listening to iTunes but I'll switch over to the mic if people pester me to do so.

Swing by if you're interested. :)

[link]





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Submissions closed. Now judging

Journal Entry: Mon Nov 19, 2012, 11:43 AM



EDIT: Submissions are closed! The four other judges and I are now judging the hell out of your entries. ;)

Who wants to do a contest??? :iconthaxterlaplz:
I've got BIG prizes to offer this time so if you're interested, keep on reading!

The Prompt


So some of you may have noticed that my webcomic series, Post-Mortem, is taking HELLA long to update. This was actually because commissions were taking up most of my free drawing time, but LET'S PRETEND THAT WASN'T THE CASE FOR A SECOND

So... what if something else had happened instead that prevented the comic from being updated? This is where you come in. Draw what you think could have happened that prevented the comic from being updated.

There could be all sorts of possibilities, from Thaxter and Grimm (the main characters) being kidnapped by the Russian mafia to =medli20's arms falling off and taking ages to grow back. It's all up to you; get creative! :iconthaxterlaplz:

For character refs, you may find the following links helpful:
[link]
[link]

Also, in case you want to draw me, here are a bunch of silly doodles and one not-so-silly drawing of me:
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Rules


Every contest needs a set of rules. Here are some guidelines to follow! (I may add things if I've missed anything)

:bulletred: This goes without saying, but your entry MUST follow the prompt. If it's not glaringly obvious what's happening in the picture, a description in the artist's comments of your deviation would be helpful.

:bulletred: Please submit your entry as a deviation by note or as a link in the comments.

:bulletred: Your entry must be new and submitted AFTER this journal is submitted. Time-traveling is cheating and will be disqualified. Also, please don't reuse an old deviation.

:bulletred: You may enter up to two times if you wish, but only one of those entries will be able to win.

:bulletred: Literature submissions will not be admitted. I realize that literature is a valid artform and that it takes a lot of skill to be able to write a decent piece of literature, but I feel that it would be very difficult to judge a literature submission against a more visual submission.

:bulletred: Please do not bribe the judges!

:bulletred: Yes, you may use your OCs! :iconthaxterlaplz:

Deadline


Entries are due by December 19th, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Prizes


:star: FIRST PLACE :star:
:bulletred: ONE YEAR premium membership
OR the point equivalent (2396 :points:)
:bulletred: Any FREE request of your choice by yours truly

:star: SECOND PLACE :star:
:bulletred: THREE MONTHS premium membership
OR the point equivalent (636 :points:)
:bulletred: Any FREE request of your choice by yours truly

:star: THIRD PLACE :star:
:bulletred: ONE MONTH premium membership
OR the point equivalent (396 :points:-- please note that you cannot buy a one-month PM for yourself)
:bulletred: Any FREE request of your choice by yours truly

Judging


Normally when I do judging, I just let anyone who wants to vote for their favorite entries, but that allows for a lot that can go wrong. (Miscounted votes, people rallying their watchers to vote for them, etc) To avoid that, I'll be looking for a small group of people who are willing to be judges for this contest.

I won't be able to offer any point incentives for people who want to judge (my points will all be gone by the time I've given them to the winners), but I will be able to make FREE animated pixel dolls (similar to Dakota in the sidebar to the left) for those who are able and willing to judge. These will be done when the judging process has ended. :)

If you would like to judge, please be sure that you will be able and willing to vote in a non-biased manner anywhere between the times of December 20th to December 27th.

Judges will not be able to submit entries to the contest.

Judging will be comprised of selecting a handful of favorite entries and rating them on a scale of 1-10.

I will take up to FOUR judges, listed below.

1. ~Twillywho
2. =timeIords
3. =SoPiOsDrEaM
4. *Ceata88

Misc.


I think that about covers it! If you've got any questions, please feel free to shoot them my way. ;)

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Giveaway Results!

Journal Entry: Wed Nov 14, 2012, 12:08 PM







Big, big congrats to both *The-Emerald-Dragon and ~NI-XI for winning the giveaway! You will both be given your points shortly. :D

Thank you so much to everyone who participated! :heart: I will be hosting more giveaways and contests in the future, so I hope guys will consider participating in those, too <3

HEY DO YOU LIKE GIVEAWAYS? I LIKE GIVEAWAYS. LET'S DO A GIVEAWAY.

SO HERE'S THE THING

Up until Saturday, November 17, 2012 11:59 PM Pacific time (That's the western coasts of Canada-land, America-land, and Baja California-land), Premium memberships are on a buy-one-get-one-free sale. THAT MEANS IF YOU BUY A PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP THIS WEEK, THE DURATION BECOMES DOUBLED. A three-month PM turns into a six-month PM, and a one-year PM lasts a whole two years

That's pretty friggin' awesome!

EXCEPT that the promotional sale only applies when you buy a premium membership for yourself, which complicates things a little. To get around that, I am going to give away points so you can buy your doubled PM for yourself! Yaaaaaaay :iconthaxterlaplz:

And if you already have a bajillion years of premium memberships attached to your profile, you can use those points for something else! Yaaaaaaaay (x2) :iconthaxterlaplz:

Giveaway details


I am giving away two sets of 636 :points: to two lucky people so they can buy a six-month premium membership this week OR do whatever the hell they please with it.

Anyone can enter! Yes, that includes people who don't watch me but decided to freeload some points off me anyway. You guys can enter as long as you don't mind me TOTALLY JUDGING YOU ◉ ‿ ◉ (jk jk)

:star: To enter, all you need to do is :+fav: this journal. In 24 hours after posting this journal, (maybe a little longer depending on when I get home, but 24 hours is your "safe cutoff point") I will close entries (meaning I'll just ignore anyone who faves this journal after that point) and pick a winner using a random number generator.

Sounds easy? Maybe not because I tend to get really wordy and include way more info than is necessary but IT'S EASY, I SWEAR

Remember guys, you only have 24 hours to fave this journal, so be sure to check the timestamp of when this was posted to make sure you're still eligible!






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New skin!

Journal Entry: Thu Nov 8, 2012, 7:47 PM



Just designed a new skin for myself because I was getting tired of how ugly and hard to read my old one was. Still trying to work out the kinks in this current one, so this will probably change a bit in the future.

If anyone has any advice on how to get the journal title to be in line with the bottom of the hat up there, please let me know! Many, many thanks to ~radioactiveshake for helping me get my stuff in line! :D





Here's some Lorem Ipsum to fill up space and whatnot.

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Want to help me mess with someone's head? #4

Journal Entry: Mon Nov 5, 2012, 4:10 PM


#1 #2 #3

Hello again, Awesome Squad! Thank you all so much for participating in the last feature; it makes me smile to see so many people eager to brighten a person's day. :D

Anyway, would you be interested in helping me mess with someone's head again? ;)

Our target this time is a wonderful artist known as :icontyller16: ~tyller16. Once again, that is :icontyller16: ~tyller16, who was suggested to me by ~EckoSlime.

As far as I know, this person has no idea I exist. I'd like you guys to stop by his page and leave a little positivity. Leave him some nice comments; give him a llama; if you like his work, you could :+fav: it and maybe leave a comment saying what you like about it; and if you REALLY like his work and you'd like to see more of it in your inbox, watch them if it strikes your fancy. Any acts of kindness are welcome-- if you want to get creative with it, I highly encourage you to do so! ;D

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH: You guys can't make any direct mention of me. I want this guy to log on to an inbox full of love and have absolutely no idea where all this positivity is coming from. For all intents and purposes, I don't exist-- though if he starts asking questions, you can leave cryptic answers, if you'd like. :lol:

Here are some of the things from his gallery that I like:



Aaaaand here are his starting stats, in case anyone likes statistics:

1340 pageviews
38 watchers
18 llamas

So, Awesome Squad, will you help me spread some love and mess with this guy's head? ;)



Thanks again to ~EckoSlime for the suggestion! If you guys would like to suggest an artist to me, feel free to leave a comment or a note  and I'll consider featuring them later. :)

Also, if you guys want to do a feature of your own like this, you're more than welcome to do so! In fact, if you do, send me a link to your journal and I'll feature it here as well. <3






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Want to help me mess with someone's head? #3

Journal Entry: Mon Oct 22, 2012, 4:03 PM


#1 #2

Psst. Hey. You. Yes, you. Want to help me screw with someone's head? In a positive way, of course. ;)

ANYWAY. The person we will be messing with today is :iconrock-the-hummer:. Yes, this person. --> :iconrock-the-hummer:

As far as I know, this person has no idea I exist-- or at least, they aren't watching me, so they won't see this journal in their inbox. I'd like you guys to stop by their page and leave a little positivity. Leave them some nice comments; give them a llama; if you like their work, you could :+fav: it and maybe leave a comment saying what you like about it; and if you REALLY like their work and you'd like to see more of it in your inbox, watch them if it strikes your fancy. ;) Oh and hey, they apparently have a Tumblr as well, so you can send them nice things over there, if you have a Tumblr account. Follow them, like/reblog their posts, send them some askbox love, stuff like that. :D

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH. You guys can't make any direct mention of me. I want them to log on tomorrow (or whenever they happen to log on next) to an inbox full of happiness and be completely bewildered as to where it all came from.

Here are some things from their gallery that I like:

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So, Awesome Squad, will you guys help me spread some love and mess with this person's head? ;)



:star::star::star: ALSO, if you want to participate in more than one of these, :iconmagicalpouchofmagic: is doing the same thing over here, so check it out! [link]





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Pixel stream! (offline)

Journal Entry: Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:44 AM


Gonna be working on some animated pixel art and doing some doodles later on. :)

No commentary this time, but I'll have iTunes running in the background. If my taste in music doesn't appeal to you, feel free to mute the video or request a song and I'll see if I have it. (I won't be going on YouTube to play songs I don't have, though; it tends to break the stream)

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Inactivity in spades

Journal Entry: Wed Oct 10, 2012, 9:38 PM


Sorry for the inactivity, guys; I've been really busy lately with university transfer applications, scholarship applications, job applications, schoolwork, and the like. I still haven't finished with any of those yet, so I'm probably going to remain relatively inactive for a while longer. :/

On a lighter note, though, I'll also be going to National Portfolio Day on Sunday, so that will be fun. :D If anyone else in southern California is going, hit me up if you see me! I love saying hi to people. :iconohohoplz:

So... yeah. Not much else to talk about, but golly, I sure do hope I can get into the university I want to attend. OTL; At any rate, I'll try not to worry about it too much and focus on doing one thing at a time. ^^;





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Journal History

Shoutbox

=Hidden-Power:iconhidden-power:
Glad to see you're alive!
Mon May 20, 2013, 9:17 PM
~Rosalina1234:iconrosalina1234:
OH YEAH!!!! :D
Thu May 9, 2013, 9:59 AM
~sonicfan1234567899:iconsonicfan1234567899:
PEWDIEPIE IS AWESOME!!!!!
Mon May 6, 2013, 3:04 PM
~FelizDiaMomoXD:iconfelizdiamomoxd:
So, i herd u liek pixel stuff...
Sun May 5, 2013, 7:46 AM
=Hidden-Power:iconhidden-power:
I just want to tell you I wish you luck on everything! Stay strong~
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 11:01 PM
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If you had to travel fifty years in the past or fifty years in the future, which would you choose? 

68%
271 deviants said The future
32%
125 deviants said The past