http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42685418/

Well, I was checking my email as I got ready to do some schoolwork and I saw this funky "You're a winner of..." thing in my inbox preview. Now, I thought it might be something that got through the spam filter and went to look at it...

And found out that I actually WON a contest that I actually entered!

Specifically, Nintendo and some photo-sharing website called smugmug held this contest back in October/November where you were supposed to draw a picture representing what you thought life would be like as a Pokémon... Mystery Dungeon style. So I figured, what the heck? I'll enter. I doodled this weird picture and tried to make it look all awesome when I traced it into Photoshop... that didn't turn out so hot. I mean, it wasn't bad (if I may toot my own horn), but I generally suck at computer coloring and, well, it sorta shows. All the same, though, I liked it and entered it anyway.

So the rules said they'd be judging around November 10th and notify the eleven winners around Nov 20. I saw several pictures that I considered better than mine, so it's not like I had my hopes up anyway, and when I didn't get any notification past the end of November I figured that was it, oh, well, I'm entering a Yu-Gi-Oh! art contest that I stand a better chance of winning anyway. But then, as I said above, I checked my email today... and I WON, bizzlenatches! I just need to reply to their email and then they're gonna ship me a DS Lite! (And a copy of Mystery Dungeon, and the official guide book... thing is, I went out and bought Dungeon Blue and the same guide book a week or so later because I didn't think I had a chance of winning. So unless the game they're sending is Dungeon Red, and I doubt that because they're sending a DS and the DS version is the one they wouldn't shut up about, I'm going to be getting two useless things... ah, well, I can sell them or give 'em away. Really, I don't need the DS Lite either, as I already have a perfectly good DS, but I might give my brother my old DS and let him get rid of his broken-hinged, can't-do-jack-squat-with-wireless one. Or I might keep them both, heh.)

El link above is my entry... like I said, the art's not perfect, but I like it and the "umbrella in the rain" sentiment is sweet. Maybe that's what won the judges over, I don't know. *dances* I won, I won, huzzah! Free stuff!

...And for those of you who'd like to know whether or not I stand a chance in this YGO thing, clicketh here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42354800/

Now THAT'S one of my good pictures. Probably looks so much better because a) I can draw dragons better than I can draw anything else, and b) because I hand-colored it with my trusty Prismas and not farty ol' Photoshop. Hopefully, this one will end up as the actual name/artwork on a real card next year... perhaps *pokes Blademaster* even a card worthy of inclusion in a fanfic or two, heh... and if I win this (I suppose I should be finding out soon if I did), they're going to send me a Yu-Gi-Oh! game for PSP! Which would be awesome! Except I don't have a PSP and don't plan to shell out the money to buy one! Huzzah!