Hello sweet members!

We hope you enjoyed doing your Peter Pan illustrations! Submissions are now closed and the focus on news article is almost done!


The season to be jolly is starting and another year is passing by. We hope that the holidays find you merry and full of childish dreams. Enjoy yummy feasts, drink tasty beverages, smile a lot, sing as loud as you can, dance and have lots of fun with your loved ones. Happy holidays!




Our next monthly topic is RED HEAD! Red Head won with 23% of the votes. Sugary got second place with 13% and Shooting Star came in third with 12%, both will be in our next poll!

Please note that, as this month is packed with parties and celebrations (and we, the team, also need to enjoy the holidays with our families and friends), all submissions must be sent before December the 28th. Remember that we won't accept late submissions!

Grab your pencils, pens, markers and brushes and let's start drawing!





Our December member of the month is a sweet girl that's been in the club for quite a long time, sharing with us her soft and delightful illustrations and kind comments. Hear, hear for ~hearte!



Click here for more illustrations!



*RSmiles
~ElysiumRain
*Skribbles
~Steved1998

Hello sweet members!

We hope you enjoyed doing your trick-or-treating illustrations! Submissions are now closed and the focus on news article is already up!




Our next monthly topic is PETER PAN! Peter Pan won with 20% of the votes. Red Head got second place with 15% and Shooting Star came in third with 13%, both will be in our next poll!

Go on and read the story and illustrate the part you like best! (Giving that this month the topic is an entire story, try to include a little excerpt of the part you've chosen to illustrate).


Grab your pencils, pens, markers and brushes and let's start drawing!





Our November member of the month is not only one of the first deviants to have joined this group but also a great contributor of lovely illustrations, helpful comments and awesome ideas. Hear, hear for ~shortthing!



Click here to read what she has to say!



~alicelevene
~Lahdidah
*Cathy86
~deshollinador

Why hello there, you little pumpkins!

We're sorry that we weren't able to announce the new topic on time, we've been quite busy with work and life, so sorry! Seeing as we'll be starting the new theme a few days later than usual we decided that, for this month only, submission will close the last day of the month (and not the day before as we normally do).

We hope you enjoyed doing your dusty attic illustrations! Submissions are now closed, we'll be uploading the last submissions and putting together the focus on news article sometime today




Now what everyone of you wants to know, our next monthly topic! This time we're doing things a little bit different. We're not going to have a poll this month, instead we chose the topic

Trick-or-treating and other misdemeanors

In the month of Halloween, a time for pumpkin juice, black cats, witches and trick or treat we chose to go with the trick instead of the treat.

What games did you used to play when you were little? Where you nice kids that used to play Tag and Hide and Seek or were you naughty and enjoyed waking up your neighbours at nap time with a little game of Ring and Run or Sardines?

We want to see kids being kids, playing games and even misbehaving with their friends! So grab your pencils, pens, markers and brushes and let's start drawing!







Our first member of the month is not only a lovely member of the group but also a devoted former admin, who helped shaped the club to what is today. Hear, hear for =Pocket-Zoo!



Click here to read what Sole has to say!


=Nakatoni
*thestrangequark
*casie



<sub>On September 26 2009, Typhoon Ondoy (international codename Ketsana) hit the Philippines, causing a multi-city flood reaching up to two storeys high or around eight meters in the entire Metro Manila area and 25 provinces nearby. Areas most devastated by the 24-hour rainfall brought by the storm are Marikina City, Pasig City and the municipality of Cainta in the province of Rizal.

Four days later, Ondoy is gone from the Philippines’ territory of responsibility but has left 246 people dead, 38 people missing, countless families displaced and sheer indescribable ruin in its wake.

But there is one more thing that Ondoy left with Filipinos that day and it is hope. There has never been a more united effort to help fellow countrymen that this generation has seen than the volunteerism of people from all walks of life and of all ages in the many relief centers set up all over the entire country.</sub>

This is what’s happening now but we have to ask ourselves, where do we go from here?

START HERE is a collection of artwork inspired by Typhoon Ondoy relief efforts that aims, in turn, to inspire others to help in rebuilding the Philippines. The hope is that we can eventually set up an exhibit where we can sell the artworks with the proceeds donated to Ondoy relief efforts, rebuilding programs and calamity risk management programs.

Why art? It is our belief that art is made because we have something to say and this is the perfect time to say something meaningful and in our own special ways. Art moves, not just our hearts but also towards a positive direction that we can choose for ourselves.

Say something. Move with us. Share your art visions of creation and rebuilding.

To know more about START HERE and were you can send your artwork follow this link: [link]

Please help spread the word.








WE LOVE YOU!
the team (Alex, Germaine and Toia)

Hello beautiful members!

September already! Boy, how fast does time fly? Are you starting to get ready for Halloween? Thinking costumes and possible Halloween-esque illustrations for next month?

We hope you enjoyed doing your ghostly illustrations! Submissions are now closed, we've already uploaded the last of the submissions and we will be putting together the focus on news article sometime today


Remember that there's still time if you want to participate in *million-dandelions's Little Bear Book Project. You can find all the info here: [link]

And if you live in Europe remember that BIB (Biennal of Illustration Bratislava) is about to start!





Now what everyone of you wants to know, our next monthly topic! Dusty Attic won with 20% of the votes. Curious and Opposites Attract got both 14% and After Dark came in third with 13%. All three of them will be in our next poll!


We hope you enjoy working on this dusty topic! So grab your pencils, pens, markers and brushes and let's start drawing!








=misskeima
~AlexandriaRaine
~amithystblade
~eorg80
*whitestarflower








WE LOVE YOU!
the team (Alex, Germaine and Toia)

Hello darling members!

So it looks like we were nominated for an award down at *TheDeviantAwards. We have no idea what the prize is supposed to be, but we're happy just because. Thank you to whoever nominated us!

If anyone feels like voting you can do so down at *TheDeviantAwards, but we don't care if we win or not, we consider ourselves winners just because someone or several someones out there think of us as the best club

We really do love you!

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Help and support *million-dandelions with her Little Bear's Book Project, everyone can participate, it doesn't matter how skilled you are just as long as you do do it with your heart.

On 27th December 2008, my husband Mikka died. He was robbed and thrown to the river. Some of you could have known him or have seen his wonderful and poetic b&w photographs of his daily life.
~nothingeater If not, you can check his gallery right now. it's worth seeing believe me!


I decided to do a book in memory of him.
the little bear's book. in Russian it is Мишкина книжка (Mishkina knizhka) what has double meaning - the little bear's book and Misha's book (that is Mikka's real name).


I ask everyone to take part and draw little bear for Mikka or for our 1 year old daughter who could watch them all later when she gets older. It doesn't matter if you are skilled in drawing or not. just do it with your heart.

Please, check her journal for more info and full detailed rules: [link]






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We hope you enjoyed our previous topic, we certainly did! We hadn't had this many submissions for a while now and we're quite happy that Outer Space Adventure inspired you that much


On another note, would you like if the club did a "member of the month" feature or some other kind of feature? We've seen a lot of clubs that do that but we weren't sure, so we decided to ask for your opinion and started a Forum Thread, please go there and let us know what you think!


> Do you think we should start doing monthly features?



The winning topic this month is Ghosts with 19% of the votes. Dusty Attic got 16% and Opposites Attract 14%, both will be in our next poll!


Ghosts was suggested by ~jimoakley666, Attic by ~adriana-owl and Opposites Attract by =oogiboogi, thank you!



We hope you enjoy working on this topic! So grab your pencils, pens, markers and brushes and let's start drawing!







~iCareTooN
~mallory-me
~Friend-of-Maglor
*sugarcream
~gedatsu-kitteh
~hana-albrecht