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Chat Event
To celebrate the holiday season, BlissfullySarcastic and I decided to run 2 chat events this month for the emote community. The first was held on Friday 21st, 9PM GMT and the next on Saturday 22nd, 4PM GMT to help open up the event to people living in different areas of the world.
Each day we had 3 different events lined up covering a wide range of emoticon related topics from a pixel challenge, to an Emoticon Legend quiz. Below you will find a round up of the second event. You can find part 1 on this page: synfull.deviantart.com/journal…
Guess the OC
In this event we provided a hand drawn image depicting an OC from the emote community. the challenge was to name both the OC and the creator. Below you can find a summmary of the clues, answers and the winners.
Clue 1
Answer: iGor by SparklyDest
Winner: icefire8521
Clue 2
Answer: Minnie by Mirz123
Winner: icefire8521
Clue 3
Answer: Selador by otohime0394.
Winner: marcphx
Clue 4
Answer: Lily by spring-sky
Winner: Krissi001
Clue 5
Answer: Smarty by I-is-smart
Winner: IceXDragon
Clue 6
Answer: April by happy-gurl
Winner: icefire8521
Clue 7
Answer: Peeka by Kyramy
Winner: IceXDragon
Clue 8
Answer: Chip by marcphx
Winner: Krissi001
Clue 9
Answer: A. Corn by MafiaVamp
Winner: IceXDragon
Clue 10
Answer: Clefairy by ClefairyKid
Winner: Kyramy
Clue 11
Answer: CiCi by Banjelerp
Winner: MerelyCubed
Clue 12
Answer: Krissimosnta by Krissi001
Winner: icefire8521
Pixel Challenge
In this event participants were given an hour to pixel a gift for Fella. You can find a full list of entries in this journal
1st Place
by Sylvaur
2nd place
IceXDragon
IRL Emote Challenge
In this event, we decided to take a break from the norm and challenge participants to make an emoticon without using any digital medium. This can be accomplished by crafting an emote out of objects, using an emote stress ball, or simply drawing an emote on paper.
The theme for this event was 'the holiday season'. This could include any religious holiday or combination of religious holidays or any other aspect of the holiday season (for example: winter, gifts, et cetera).
Once completed, they had to scan or take a photo of the finished work and upload it to deviantART (your gallery, scraps, or sta.sh). Participants were able to make only very minor tweaks to the finished work (cropping, adjusting color slightly), but they could not make any major changes to the finished image (no photo manipulations, no adding items/digitally made emoticons).
Check out the comment section of this journal for all of the entries.
1st Place
by FireFlyExposed
2nd place
by MerelyCubed
Honourable Mention
by Krissi001
Donator features
As a small thank you to all that the deviants who donated the prizes for these chat events, we have chosen 1 deviation from each person to include in this feature
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Winds of change
Whilst I'm not overly active on dA any more, I still pop in once in a while and thought I'd do a bit of a life update for anyone else who still lurks around here. The last few months have been a bit of a whirlwind for me. At the end of June, the software company I worked for failed to get the investment it needed, meaning that I lost my job along with the majority of out Dev and QA team. I'd been working in the same company for nearly 10 years and really enjoyed my time there, so it was a shame I had to leave. Luckily for me, I had quite a long notice period (9 weeks) which was long enough to find a new job and then have a few weeks off. This gave me the chance to spend a lot of time with my sister and her family (who were visiting from America) and go for a number of walks in my local national park called The Peak District. I started my new role a few weeks ago. I think it's going ok but it will take some time to adjust to working in a new company. It didn't help that I caught
Welcome to 2023!
Happy New Year! I just realised that I didn't write a single journal in 2022. Whoops. I am still lurking around here and pop in a few times a week, but I haven't had much to post/update. So what was 2022 like for me? Quite mixed. The year started off strong. I spent the Spring months working on my house - I painted the fences, shed and decking, decorated a blank wall in my office and then spent a few days painting my bathroom. Over the summer, things hit a bump in the road. I had a number of fun plans arranged, which all had to be scrapped as I (and a friend staying with me) caught Covid. Fortunately no long lasting effects, and we both made the most of the situation, but it wasn't quite the relaxing week we had planned. Oh well. In Autumn, I tried to make up for missed opportunities, and think I took on a little too much at once. I filled a lot of my free time with meetups or walks or other house improvements, which resulted in feeling exhausted since around the end of
NaNoEmo Roundup 2021
With the blink of an eye it's now December and NaNoEmo has finished for another year. It has been an absolute delight to see a number of emoticonist take part, breathing some life back into a community that is dormant for much of the year. To add to the celebrations, two of the entries received a Daily Deviation (DD) and one emoticonist ( @MerelyCubed) managed to complete the "30 in 30" challenge - a truly impressive achievement. Without further ado, here are a selection of the entries from this year: @MerelyCubed 30 entries @Phlum 6 entries @BlissfullySarcastic 7 entries @nillemotes 11 entries Emotes submitted privately
Please Sir, can I have some more?!
Within the blink of an eye it seems to be August, and I'm really starting to wonder where the year has gone. I can't say I have a load of stuff to update this journal with, but I fancied an update nonetheless. I'm now well settled in the new house. In April/May I managed to finish unpacking most of my belongings, so it started to feel like it was my home rather than just a place I was living. In June I had the boiler replaced, which was an experience and a half, but I'm glad that's all done. I have the windows to replace and some work to do in the loft, but I'm just taking some time out to enjoy the house as it is before it descends into chaos again. I was also pleasantly surprised when I found a new hedgehog that visits the house. I was a little sad that I left the others behind when I moved, but I discovered him outside the shed one night and have been looking after him ever since. He's been given the nickname Oliver after one late night session where he threw his food bowls
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I know that thisjournal is old now ,but I'm so happy to see my Lily as one of OCs in the contest !! It means that it was considered as a fairly known emote which makes me really happy 
BTW ,who drew it ?
BTW ,who drew it ?