Cosplay Folders and Contests At Our Sister Group

OUR 'LIL SISTER NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!

To show some long over-due love for our much neglected(bad elf!) "imouto group", AspiringAnimeArtists (also known as "A3", is an online community specifically created for showcasing cosplay and art submissions) , and to celebrate their special event of having reached the milestone 1K+ members/watchers, we have finally revised(including multitude of new gallery folders - mostly cosplay related,  and easier to read submission/faq guides), updated(reorganized our members' submissions to proper folders and deleted all of those that are presently displayed as "in storage"...yuck!) , upgraded(now a super-group like our other 2 sister sites in our network) it to better serve our truly awesome members and to validate our commitment in showcasing their excellent submissions its galleries.  So, we humbly ask all of the dedicated cosplayers and talented artists from our sister groups to generously share their passion(if you are both a cosplayer and an artist, that is even better!) with our members/watchers by joining(or even just dev-watching would be awesome!) this growing cosplay/art community and actively submitting their inspirational works to our galleries.  

Another reason to join our sister group?  We're going to pass out dA points as rewards(minimum of 100 dA points each!) for the mini-contests(atleast 3 per week - if our members can provide correct answers, for the next 2 weeks) that we will be holding at AspiringAnimeArtists , starting 4-6-2014(Sunday, Eastern Standard time).  These mini-contests will consist of various challenges, including anime(which most of our cosplayers are experts since they are required to do much research before cosplaying their chosen characters) & our groups-related questions, and will be posted somewhere in A3's frontpage unannounced; the first one(must be a member of AspiringAnimeArtists to participate) to note the group(group notes) with the correct answer(s) will be awarded the points.

A final reason to join?  We will be holding a group mascot contest(must be a member of A3 to enter) right afterwards with the reward being a 1 year dA premium membership(or equivalent dA points if preferred).  The character theme will be a "imouto"('lil sister) type female who will represent our group, AspiringAnimeArtists ; more details will be posted later; it doesn't have to be just artworks since we encourage our cosplayers to participate as well by submitting their cosplay rendition of our upcoming group mascot for A3.  So, why not join and challenge yourself and participate by testing your creative skills with the other talented contestants and also win a 1-year subby(or dA points) in the process?  
 

EXPERIENCING STRANGE PHENOMENON ISN'T ALWAYS SO BAD:

I do not know if anyone else have noticed it but our daily pageviews have notably increased during the past month and I am just as baffled as many of our viewers as to the reason(s) why this is happening; both of our sister groups have experienced this as well.  Maybe the folks in the real world have finally recognized the true awesomeness of our members' submissions; we are absolutely lucky to have so many breathtakingly lovely female cosplayers/models and highly-skilled photographers who actively share their truly unforgettable works with our group! Or maybe I have a ton of new fans who like to read my witty group blogs...you know that I'm kidding, right?  Hopefully, this is a good thing since this means more positive exposure for our member and their submissions showcased in our galleries, which equates to more pageviews, faves, comments, and dev-watches to go around.  And, as the representative of our network's administration, I just want to take this time to express my most heartfelt appreciation to all of our active members, watchers, and visitors for their continued support of our most humble groups!