DC has announced Super Best Friends Forever EXCLUSIVE maquettes for San Diego Comic Con 2013!!! [link]

You've probably noticed I've been a little sparse on my updates and communication over the past few weeks, and even more so for the past couple days. I don't like to air my personal business too much, but I feel I owe you guys an explanation. My grandma Beverly had been in several hospitals/recovery centers for heart problems since late March. We thought she was on the mend, but because of problems with her lungs, her condition took a turn for the worse. She passed away this past Thursday peacefully and among her friends and family.

We all loved her very much and this has been a crushing blow to all of us. To me personally, she was the only grandparent I ever actually had a relationship with and this is the first time I've ever had to cope with the death of a close family member. I've come to find out that I apparently deal with the grief by hiding in my house and distracting myself with just about anything that doesn't involve other people, hence my radio silence over the weekend. I haven't been able to draw or create much of anything either.

I have a convention appearance this weekend at Animazement in North Carolina and then the next weekend at Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con. I'm hoping forcing myself to be around other people will be helpful and hopefully reignite my spark to draw again. I know it would make Grandma very sad to know that I wasn't doing art on account of her passing, so I wanna dust myself off and get back on it as soon as possible.

In the meantime, I appreciate your kindness and your patience.  Hopefully I'll see some of you this weekend or the next and I promise I'll reply to your messages and stuff over the next 2-3 weeks. Thanks everyone. And do me and yourself a favor, take a moment to let the ones you love know how much they mean to you and treasure every day you have with them. Our time together is too short, but genuine gratitude and appreciation always makes the most of it. Take care, gang.

Best,
K-Bo.

Hi everyone!!

I've reached over 500 Watchers!! I will admit, recently I've used *dAhub every now and then :> I think it's a great way to help others get some extra points and also spread art around in the process! If people who've found me that way don't like my stuff than they would've just unWatched! But a lot haven't Thank you all everyone so much for joining me on this journey of art!! especially all of you who have been here from the beginning!

I want to say thank you by holding a massive Photography and Drawn Art contest! So now to topic at hand

Theme - Emotion!!
Your Photography or Drawn Art may be of practically anything as long as it depicts an emotion of sort eg. Love, Happiness, Peace, Sadness, Anger, Boredom etc.

Prizes! ~
1st Place - 12 Month Premium Membership, 2000 and 5 Drawings* from me.
2nd Place - 3 Month Premium Membership, 1000 and 4 Drawings* from me.
3rd Place - 3 Month Premium Membership, 500 and 3 Drawings* from me.
4th Place - 1 Month Premium Membership, 250 and 2 Drawings* from me.
5th Place - 1 Month Premium Membership, 100 and 1 Drawing* from me.
All winners of course will also be featured with their winning pieces in the results journal which will stay on my profile for at least 1 week :>

*_{I use reference images for the majority of my art, drawings will be completed in order of 1st Place to 5th Place, these drawings will be put ahead of Requests if I have any at the time of the winners announcement, but they will be given 2nd priority if I have any paid Commissions at the time. You may have a max of 2 characters/subjects in a drawing but one drawing will be deducted if so, eg. 1st Place, 5 drawings, wants 1 with 2 characters so will only have 3 drawings left instead of 4, sorry if it's confusing Please also read here for more information/conditions etc. [link] Here are my most recent artworks also [link] :> It takes me 4+ hours to complete a quality drawing so it may take me many a few months to complete, I live my life and it is 30 drawings total after all Which I'd be very happy to draw ^0^}

Note! Because this is for both Photography and Drawn Art, there will be duplicate prizes! eg. 1st Place for Photography, 1st Place for Drawn Art etc. also for 2nd to 5th Places

Rules and Conditions - PLEASE READ ALL!!!!!!!
You must create a journal titled "Win A 12 Month Premium Membership!!" with a link to this here journal, and then please provide a link back to your journal so I can see  This is to help spread the word, nothing like some good competition!!
The work entered must be a new submission, made specially for the contest, so have fun with them! ^0^
You may enter up to FIVE pieces for each medium to increase your chances!
The work entered must be your own, made entirely by you (but referencing is completely fine!)
No work aimed primarily at an 18+ audience!
You are not aloud to draw any of my Fursonas for the contest.
You do not have to be watching me to enter!  but I'd recommend it for being notified of any updates :>
If you already have a Premium Membership and should you win 1st place, you may choose to have the 12 months added to your existing Premium Membership or split it and have them all or how much you wish, sent to another DeviantArt Member completely of your choice If you wish to split these months, please state in your 1st entry, if not it's completely ok!!! (this is just so there will not be awkwardness of me asking before handing out this well deserved monster PM xD)
Send your entries via note or link on my profile :3 They will be added to their respected Emotion Contest Entries folder in my favourites
Entries close 1st of July and Winners will be announced on the 7th of July at latest! :3
Do not take the contest to heart, just have some fun! ^0^

Winners will be personally chosen by me, in all fairness :>

Contest starts right meow!!!!! Have fun everyone!!!! ^0^

Sincerely,
~ SalienCat

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