IMPORTANT STUFF!!! + new graphic, tutorial coming soon

I might just as well start with the "IMPORTANT STUFF!!!".

Only two people have entered in the raffle so far and it ends tomorrow, so I decided to change it a bit. Now there won't be one winner, but everyone who applies gets a graphic!

I canceled graphic requests around September, I think, but you can now apply again until next Friday, 3rd of May.

I will make the graphics in order of requests, so the two people who entered the raffle will get theirs first.

You sign up the same way as before, you only need to:

1. Be a follower of this blog (hehe :-P)

2. Comment with your name and a way I can contact you (Stardoll, email or anything else)

You can apply in the comment section of this post or the raffle, I will check both.

I will send the people who applied an email/friend request asking what they want the graphic to look like, if you don't answer within a week I will cancel the request.

Hope you liked this change :)

*new topic*

I just finished a new graphic, and I'm going to make a tutorial of it (it will be in my next post). It's just to show my way of making graphics, I'm not telling anyone to do it the same way because we all have different techniques and opinions of what looks best, and I'm far from a pro myself.

Anyway, here it is:

It's drawn 100% by myself and has taken about 865432340987654323456789 hours to finish. The shading is choppy, but other than that I'm really pleased with the result.

It's not meant to look like a certain person (does it reming you of anyone though?) but some pars of it represent me. For example the tattoo, because I love music and the Deathly Hallows necklace because... well, isn't that pretty obvious? :D I'm going to buy one that looks like this in real life, on Etsy.com. Long purple hair because I like hair in unnatural colors like bright red, turquoise and - you guessed it - purple. A neon yellow top because I see neon yellow all over and I'm starting to like it.

I also wanted to draw a cat, wolf or unicorn on the top so the graphic would be even more personalized but there's not much place for it.

That's all for now, I think. The tutorial will be up very soon.

Opinions/critique on the graphic? Did you like the change?

And don't forget to tick a box below, it's much easier than to write a comment!

Maria

Birthday raffle!

I'm really proud of my new cupcake graphic, made to fit the blog's new theme :P

As I promised earlier today, I am making a small raffle to celebrate 1 year of this blog and of me making graphics.

And as I promised, (sadly) the prize won't be big: 1 graphic/drawing/sketch/whatever you want made by me.
I will contact the winner about what it should look like (if they have a picture they want to recreate, if it should have a Stardoll face, if you want it to have outlines like my latest graphics and so on).


If you want to enter:

- You need to be a follower of this blog
- Write a comment with your name and a way I can contact you. (Stardoll, email, Skype or anything else)
- I am going to add a new tutorial soon because last time was about half a year ago, but I can't decide if it should be about graphics or pencil drawings. What do you prefer? (this is optional but it would be a great help)

Yes, that's all!

You have 1 week to enter, until Friday the 26th.


Hope you will enter :)

- Maria

Raffle results

Hello readers/followers!
I am in a very good mood today, because I won Medoll of the Month on USD!!! Seriously, I couldn't believe it!
Anyway, back to the point of this post...

The raffle was due yesterday, and I have got 9 entries. I know that's quite much... but if there were just two more entries, the Superstar winner would get 5 stardollars more!

The prizes were:
- 30sd and a cupcake gift if you want one for the superstar/royalty winner
- You will be on the next banner of this blog together with me and a cupcake gift if you want one for the non-ss winner.

There were 6 non-ss entries, and 3 superstar/royalty entries.
And now you will find out who the winners are.

*DRUMROLL* (I know I can add a drumroll to the videos below, but my little brother is sleeping and I don't want to wake him up)


The superstar/royalty winner:

The winner is Crystallam2000! Reserve something in your StarBazaar for 30 sd, I will buy it as soon as possible so you can get the money. You will get the cupcake when I have bought the reserved item.

The non-ss winner:

The winner is ask510! You will get a cupcake now (or as soon as I have time), and the banner will be up in some days (maybe a week)!

Congratulations to the winners and thank you for participating to the others!

Maria/mgirl07

P.S. If you have a question about anything, if you can't see the video, if I have spelled one of the names wrong or anything else please let me know!

THE BIG RAFFLE!

This is your chance of winning a prize... and all you have to do is to is to follow this blog (if you haven't already) and write your username in the comments! Oh, and write if you are a superstar/royalty or non-ss, because the prizes are different.

The prizes


Superstars: 30 sd if there will be 0 to 10 entries, 35 sd if there will be 11-20 entries and 40 sd if there will be 21 or more entries! So you are welcome to invite more people, because then you have a chance of winning a bigger prize! (you have to sell something to me through the StarBazaar to get the money)

Non-ss: As I can't send you any stardollars and the graphics I make are already free, I've come up with a creative prize - you can be on this blog's next banner for several months until the next makeover!

I will write all the usernames on pieces of paper, fold them and put them into two hats: a non-ss and a superstar one. Then I will take a random one out of each hat, and announce the winner! I know there's something called random number generator and that sort of stuff, but the other is more interesting!

Note: if only one superstar or only one non-superstar will enter, I will put the two prizes together into one hat/category, and if there will be no ss/non-ss entries I will have to remove one of the prizes.

EDIT: the non-superstar winner can also get a cupcake gift if they want one, because I am non-ss myself and can't buy any of the other gifts!

Good luck!

The raffle ends on Tuesday the 31st of July, so you have about 4 days to enter!