and are releasing a Memorial site for his sister Cheri on January 22nd, her birthday. They know it takes a long time to create something, so They're giving us the heads up now. If you wish to contribute to this memorial, art pieces have to be handed in a week before on January 16th.

Remember, this is to celebrate Cheri, not her creations. Focus on Cheri as a person as you knew her. It can be anything.
A drawing.
A CG drawing.
A poem.
A mini story.
Audio clips.
Renderings of her CHERIGIRL drawings even.

Real-Shadowartist and BossyGirl want to make this a huge event, hoping many will respond and I thank you for that in advance.

Just send your finished work or link to Real-Shadowartist or BossyGirl via a note. Not all art directed for Cheri is actually under her name, so if anyone sees a Cheri art anywhere please inform them. DA is a vast world.

Please help spread the word as well.

From *clayscence's Journal:

yeah!! contest time!! this will be an awesome contest because it's about YOUR OCS (original characters)!!! you don't have to be an expert that draw amazing stuff, because that's not what this contest is about.
i will be the judge so grab a pencil and start drawing!!


RULEZ


1-there is no limit of entries, you can participate as many times as you want!!!

2-it doesn't have to be only one character, you can draw 2 or more OCS

3-drawings that brake devaintart's policy are going to be inmediately eliminated from the contest

4-the drawing can be in any technique you chose

5-the deviants that donated prizes can participate as well, knowing of course that if they win they will have one prize lessbut there are so many prizes that it doesn't matter XD

6-in the description of the drawing you HAVE to write your OCs personality so i can see how you translate that into the drawing. the likes, dislikes, style, age, name, sociable or not, temper, and all that you can think about.

7-the drawing must be done exclusively for the contest but you can use an old OC it doesn't have to be a new one

8-an OC is an original character. this means that the character must be a full creation of the participant. no fanart or other deviant's OC are allowed.


I will judge: representation of the OC, effort, originality for the first 3 prizes and 2 mentions. then i will judge separately the itmes i wrote bellow.



PRIZES!!


wow....this are a LOT of prizes..! i can't believe so much people wanted to help me thanks! there are so many probabilites you would win something!! check them out:

1st prize
**clayscence full body colored drawing
**clayscence feature
*=michelephant stamp/rollover
**Jezebel1669 sub 1 year
**PrincessElemmiriel drawing
**Kittie--chan photo
*`carolinabarajas feature
*=ittoryu24 feature
*=Kaoxita feature

2nd prize
**clayscence half body colored drawing
**clayscence feature
**bssc sub 1 year
*~Ultamisia drawing
**GysKing1 feature
*~Kelly-violet plushie wings
**Crissey feature
**Kittie--chan feature
*=Kaoxita feature


3rd prize
**Gweyeni feature
**clayscence chibi colored drawing
**clayscence feature
*~FullmetalDragon7 1 year sub
*=rjonesdesign feature
**ShatteredSoul209 feature
*=shatterflii drawing
*=Kaoxita feature


mention
*=vero-g6 drawing
**clayscence feature
*=michelephant 3 month sub
*~Nikiu drawing
*=shatterflii feature
*~VALINAX drawing
*=elquijote drawing

mention
**clayscence feature
*=rjonesdesign 3 month sub
*=kuzuSkot drawing
**InpuUpUaut feature
**OptimusPraino drawing
**GysKing1 lineart
*=rjonesdesign drawing

OC's representation
*=Amy-Sun sub 1 month
**clayscence feature
*~Aiyana-Ayama drawing
**Asuka-Rosenrot feature

effort
**clayscence feature
*~Dinaria feature con links
**Ninie drawing
*~Dinaria drawing

originality
**clayscence feature
*~LuMaGa feature con links
**Asuka-Rosenrot drawing
*~BrokenTeapot 5 usd

the most voted
**clayscence feature
*~arbucias93 drawing
*=joephotoshop drawing
*~Yayo290 drawing

funniest
**clayscence feature
*~FrostNight drawing
*~ReallyMightBeGone drawing
*~FullmetalDragon7 drawing


ATTENTION DEVIANTS

participants that did not win MAY have a special prize, i don't assure you anything

please!!! post in your journal that *clayscence is holding a contest. only that i want this to be a great contest, so i would be thankful if you could feature my contest in your journal arigatou gozaimasu!!!!

DEADLINE:
march 10th (can be extended if there are a lot of entries)

QUESTIONS:
if you have a question, ask me in this journal or send me a note

THANKS:
thanks again to all the deviants that donated prizes for this contest!! and i was afraid i wouldn't have enough prizes....!

WTF ARE YOU WAITING??? YOUR OCS ARE CALLING YOU!!

Homophobia and You: We're people too! Stop the hate and spread the love!

*I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

*I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

*I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

*We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

*I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

*I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

*I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

*I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

*We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

*I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

*I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

*I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

*I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

*I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

*I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

*I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

*I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.

*I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

*I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

*I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to help lessen it.

~violet-lotus is currently working on a characters sheet for both Slice and Divebomb and has just posted up some sketch work that people might be interested in checking out.