Hi everyone,

Well it's been a long time since I posted anything on dA but I think you guys will be seeing more artwork from me now that I downloaded GIMP to my laptop. I've been experimenting with it and I kind of like it more than Photoshop. They're both similar to each other but GIMP is more simplistic to me. Sadly I'm not a pro at it just yet and I would really appreciate it if anyone can send me some links or info on how to use GIMP to is maximum potential in anime art. I'm looking at some tutorials already but most are "how to draw anime eyes" or "how to color anime art". I need some more help on GIMP and if you can tell me what you know about it, please do.

Another thing is... my DGM comic kind of ended. Ever since school started my grades and my school work have been on my TO DO list. So, the DGM comic won't continue untill the next summer. I'm sorry for those who actually reads my comic but this is the truth.

Then about my life... I just got accepted in my school's varsity basketball team so now I have practices every school day and on Saturdays. Then the last sports season I got 6th place out of 40 girls in the Europeans Golf Tournament. In other words I was on the school's varsity golf team. So my life has been pretty hectic and traveling all over Europe doesn't really give me a lot of time to do my homework as well.
Last week or so I went to Italy. If you haven't heard of it before, I went to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Then I saw Venice and Florence Italy as well. I got a cool mask from Venice because they are famous for their carnivals there. I'll post a picture of it soon, and I plan on making it my dA ID pic.

So, you all know how my last contest ended poorly right? Well I'm going to try a new one. Due to the lack of time I have there won't be a lot of prizes. It should be fun though for the particapents so here's the subject...

*-* The Pooh Bear Contest *-*

This is similar to the last contest. So it should be pretty easy

RULES-
1-Draw Pooh Bear as human
2-The person can be a girl or a boy (your choice)
3-Please don't make it scary/gory or anything like that
4-Show me what Pooh would look like to you
5-If you used a specific outfit from a reference pic. please send me the link to it as well
6-Please leave a message on this journal if you want to particapate.
7-Please turn in your artwork ON TIME.
8-If you need more time, please tell me.
9-Last, have fun.

PRIZES-

1st place- An anime artwork of your choice
---------options---------------
1-made on the computer
2-made on actual paper
3-chibis
4-groups
5-solo
6-anything you want

2nd place- An anime artwork of your choice
----------options--------------
1-made on the computer
2-made on actual paper
3-chibi
4-solo

3rd place- An anime artwork of your choice
----------options--------------
1-made on the computer
2-made on acutal paper
3-chibi

TIME-

Starts- Dec. 7
Check- Dec. Jan 6
Ends- Jan. 31

* I will send all participants if any of the dates have changed*

If you have any questions about this contest please tell me.