Community Spirit Week!

Jan 2, 201220 min read

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Published: Jan 2, 2012

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Hello!
Well, it's the start of a new year and the start of my spirit week, which hopefully will be ~~fun~~ potato for all involved.

So, let's get this show on the road...

Promoting new talent

I'm going to have a list of new emoticonists (less than 3 months) right here. Please tell me if you know any, and I'll put them here so they can gain exposure and what-have-you!

Pimpage section

I'm going to use this section to pimp peoples' emoticon projects, groups, contests, and what-have-you.
Please comment if you would like something here!

Groups

- A group founded by Xanderpus and myself, dedicating to providing regular "challenges" to emoticonists who need practice on certain areas or even simply ideas.

Contests
January EMTC! hosted by SparklyDest - The theme for this month is TIME.

Projects

Emoticonists Support Stamp Project hosted by Phlum - Entries seem to have slowed on this but we haven't run out of emoticonists yet

Other such things
The Emote Awards 2011 hosted by stuck-in-suburbia - The votes are now open!

Cake commissions by happy-gurl are still on offer for a short time. Grab one while you can!

Free Stuff Friday Saturday Tomorrow!

I will be doing a brief livestream ~~tomorrow~~ and I will be taking requests. Click here to get me started! join.me/phlum-livestream [note: offline at the moment, just leaving here for ease of access.]
I will list all the finished requests here. This will operate on a first come, first serve thing.

Contest Tiems!

Since we're at the beginning of a new era (possibly) this contest theme is going to be...
Future
What do you think is going to become of our society in the coming year(s)? Is our technology going to increase to the point at which we don't even need to live? Or will third world countries become more developed? It's your call.

Rules:

Only new emoticons made and submitted after this announcement will be accepted.
The piece has to include emoticons in a reasonable manner.
You can enter as many times as you like!

Entries:
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Prizes:
Since this is a small contest and because I'm not good at preparing, I don't have a huge amount of prizes. If you could donate something that would be fantastic.

:thumb245773686: Winning prize:

One month of Premium Membership
An emote gift card
A feature in this very journal

:thumb245772358: Close contenders:

55 points apiece
An emote gift card (small, static only)
A feature in this very journal

Features!

I'll be featuring five pieces every day for this week. Features could be from emoticonists new or old...and I feel like starting with a newer emoticonist, don't you?
Suggestions are welcomed.

Monday: 8-bitCoffee
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Tuesday: EmotiKai

Wednesday: 23linsky23

Thursday: Sailor-Pikmin

Support And Be Supported by Sailor-Pikmin

I'll name this thing later by Sailor-Pikmin

Friday: otohime0394

SanguineEpitaph's Birthday Card by otohime0394

Saturday: nikkittie

Sunday: Nee-to

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Mini project thing

I've thought of something that we can all do together: namely, yarjor's fantastic expression challenge!
I'll have a sign-up list so two people won't end up filling one slot. There are 96 slots in the challenge which obviously won't be filled within the week but this could be continued if there's enough interest.

More rules

Before you make an entry you need to comment on this journal and sign up or else it won't be accepted. We have to keep order somehow!
You can only use one box in one entry, unless you collaborate with somebody else. You must tell me if you're doing this!
Please try not to do an expression that somebody has already done.
Participants are limited to three entries though this is subject to increase.
No animated entries.

Here is the current state of the project. If you want to add to it, comment here and I'll put you on the next slot