Wow that's probably a confusing title
Well then let's get started

First of all, I won the contest!
THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who voted for me! I really think there are so many other people who should have won before me XD;;;
I really appreciate everyone's support!

However, when I joined the contest, I joined with the thought in mind that I just wanted to have the challenge of not knowing what I'd draw, not the prizes.
I didn't really think I'd win, but since I did, I'm donating all of my prizes to the other winners. I was thinking,it's not really fair for me to get the prizes when it wasn't really my goal, and someone else might have really worked hard for them.
I notified the club owner so hopefully there will be an update at some point. I don't knwo who the prizes are going to though XD I left it up to her.

And now my FAVORITE part of this journal XD

Many of you may know 呪音せんせい (Juon Yu) of the Beyond the Limit blog (especially if you're BB fans). I really admire her art and so I look/sometimes comment on her entries. ANYWHO she held an art chat on Fri. the 13th and so I decided to join, if only to watch her draw and learn some techniques.

However, eventually I really wanted to doodle in the chat XD
And all of a sudden, Juon's like, "That's so cuteeee!"
I was just like.... ;A; WUT
I never even thought I'd really exchange more than a few words with her, and there she was complimenting me

Anyways after that I started drawing a lot with her and the other talented artists, and we all drew together for like 6 hours XD;;
It was so awesome....I drew a picture concept and she liked it so she drew her own version of it ;w; <3333 I felt so unbelievably shocked and honored ;A; That this artist who I admire so much was drawing something like I just drew ;A; Then I'd draw captions to her art and she'd draw caption to mine XD It was awesome

Everyone was Japanese so it was kind of hard to hold a good conversation with them but I did okay, I think XD;;
They got excited when they found out I was from America and started asking me all these questions XD;; I felt bad because it was really hard to answer quickly enough for them.. ;A; Every hour or so we'd do the whole "its XX time here, what time is it there?" thing XD

I'm completely aware of how fangirly and desu-y I sound right now but I don't even care XD It was such an honor I'm still shocked from it
I'm still worried I was being rude by entering their chat though XD;; Although if I was able to read it well enough, one of them said I was fun and they were glad I came ;A;
I know none of them are reading this, but thank you everyone for being so nice to me :'D

Anyways, on to the next thing---

The awesome invited me into her Secret Santa~ Thank youuuu~ (everyone in the list is super talented O: I'm worried I won't be able to keep up with them XD)

So now, I'm putting up my want-y gift-y for my Secret Santa to see ;D

Shooo...
If you could draw my OCs I'd really love it XD;;; *predictable*
Umm...I think it would be really awesome if you could draw them together in some kind of alleyway (since they are homeless) in some kind of ramshackle Christmas theme? XD (ex. dead looking tiny christmas tree, rags for the tree skirt, broken lightbulbs for ornaments, garbage lying around as tinsel, etc.) XDDD
Of course, that's just an example, you can take that theme in any direction you want~~
Hopefully they'd look somewhat happy/peaceful and not sad, despite the scene XD THEY'RE MAKING THE BEST OF IT

References:

color reference:

The pictures are outdated but those are the colors. However, the bluehaired one's hair is a tiny bit lighter, now.

If you absolutely feel like you CAN'T draw that, you can also draw:

I've been thinking about childhood games I used to play, and Ape Escape (the original) was one of my favorites. I recently rememebred tht I had this huge crush on the evil monkey dude Specter (creepy, IKR? I always had crushes on the villians of everything) So you could draw him! It would be like a tribute to my child self :'D

Reference: [link]
Or you can look at the anime: [link]
(He acts really retarded in the anime though XD)

However, keep in mind I prefer the first option, the second option is there if you don't think you can XD

If everyone was brave enough to read this whole journal, I salute you

ALSO, I WILL be hosting my own contest soon! Look for it soon <3 (hopefully)