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Just noticed I recieved my fifth daily deviation on my most recent piece "Fatality"

And what a surprise at that. First piece in half a year or so. And on terrible hardware. I'm very surprised yet very greatful for this honor!

Welcome to all new watchers, and thanks for all the favs you people have spread my way. Much appreciated. Wish I could thank you all personally, but my inbox is a bit overflooded at the moment.

On another happy note I just recieved my computer back from the workshop, and can fire up Photoshop again. Any tips or themes you'd like to see for my first piece?

~Emil

Hey all.


I've been very inactive lately. One deviation submitted since March - and despite trying to login at least once a week to check my messages, I've got well above a 1000 activity messages and even more unwatched deviations.

So I'm sorry that I haven't thanked all new watchers like I usually do, and for not having responded to your messages and notes.

I'll do better in the future.

That said, I just recently passed 20000 page views, which ought to count for something I guess - though I really don't know what

The turn out on the contest I announced in my previous journal has been canceled due to a horribly low turn out. Thanks to the 4 people who actually gave a damn though. Send me a not or something if you need help, advice or critique on any of your deviations and I'll make sure to help you out.

That's all folks.

Alright, I'm arranging a small contest for all of my watchers (and whomever happens to stumble across this journal). The goal is to create my ID for 2011. Simply because my old one is ugly and outdated. The ID should represent my art in a stylish and alluring manner.

By large this is more of a design contest than an art contest (which is great, because it means almost anyone with a picture editing program can partake).

I could of course design my own ID, but I thought this would be fun. Also, the prizes are stuff I would want to do, but never get around to doing - but this way I will be compelled to. Which would be great both for me, you and the rest of the community...

Contest time

A month. From today until the 25th of may.

Instructions

- Upload the piece before the deadline on either a 3rd party site or in your scraps before the deadline.
- Send me a note with the url.
- After the 25th of may you may upload it to your gallery or do whatever you want with it. Side from using it commercially (however you could possibly do that), or claim that my art is your art

Requirements

- Art from my gallery needs to be the center of attention in the piece
- Other stock might be used at will, but credits must be given
- This is foremost a design contest, not a photo-manipulation contest - so I prefer my own art to be relatively unaltered (go wild cropping, cutting, resizing and designing though
- Any and all resolutions are fine
- No text, name or title required (unless you want to)
- The piece shouldn't have any watermark or artist signature - but you will of course be credited on the actual deviation when I upload it to my own gallery

Prizes

There will be one OR two winners in this contest. There's a first place and a runner up - the first prize will only be given if I deem one of the submissions good enough to be used. In that case the runner up will be the second best piece. In the case there's no piece I really don't want to use - there will still be a runner up winner, and prizes given away

All contestants that enter will get a journal feature when the contest comes to an end (of both their entry and a piece that I select from their gallery).

First prize

The winner may choose one(!) of the following things to be submitted to him/her personally - with copyrights given away and a free for use in any and all works:

* A high res planet stock (layered psd or transparent jpg)
* A small fractal pack
* A small asteroid pack
* A high res star field stock
* A commission piece of print size (you can obviously not pass this forward as your own) (subject will be space and of my own choosing) (I will upload it to my own gallery, but the print size will be reserved the winner)

On top of this the winner may also choose a prize from the runner up category.

Runner up

The runner up won't get a personal prize, however he or she may choose something for me to upload for the community as a whole. As with the winner, you need to pick one(!) of the following:

* A high res planet stock (layered psd or transparent jpg)
* A walk-through on my next piece
* A nebulae brush pack
* A star brush pack
* A high res planet pack
* A fractal pack
* An asteroid pack
* A tutorial (I'll pick the subject myself - but you're free to come with suggestions, but there's things I simply can't do and things I can't explain in text).

It'll be interesting to see how many (if any) that enters this

I just recently got my third daily deviation on my piece Disintigrate. How it's even possible is way beyond me. I must have unknowingly bribed the gallery moderators. Thanks though to Sniper115A3 for suggesting it and to MacRebisz for the feature.

In other egocentric news I just recently passed 15000 page views, 500 watchers and I'm pretty darn close to have a whopping total of 150´000 views in total on my deviations. Guess I've bribed more than the gallery moderators...

Anyways, thanks you all - and I hope I won't let all of you new watchers down.

Now to my question - tell me...

...or give me suggestions for my next piece please

Just recently got a new computer and I'm eager to whop up something extraordinary. Could use some input from you guys though, anything in particular you'd like to see? I usually get very poor response on my journals, so if you have a nice idea you're quite likely to see it being realized.

Thats all folks, happy new year on y'all

Today when I came back from a couple of weeks of vacation, without any Internet I - to my great surprise - discovered I'd received my second Daily Deviation on Aphelion. In some ways this DD feels if, not more, than at least equally pleasing as my first. Since this DD was both suggested and featured by two artists who's art I very much admire. That said; thanks a lot gucken for the suggestion and MacRebisz for the feature.

Also, a warm welcome to all new watchers, I truly appreciate the gesture and hope you'll keep on appreciating my art.

I've got a couple of classic space pieces in the making, so stay tuned for the next couple of weeks or so

I had intended to feature a couple of great works here, even had it set up - but alas, no sub anymore!

/Emil