Huh! That was one long and very busy week without any posts, sorry guys! I can’t really explain you how busy I am these days because of my high school graduating project and preparing for the art academy. There’s almost no time for sleeping, just drawing and drawing with some short coffee breaks. I hope everything will be done soon, in a few weeks – graduating project (this week) and my portfolio for the art academy (a week after). This a very important part of my life, thank you for understanding. I’ll be back soon, as soon as possible. By the way, today I’m celebrating 4 months of blogging at Die without Art. Hurey!

You like the arts, blogs and writing? Then you are a person I’m looking for, to help me during my offline week. Here’s why. I will be attending the seminar for animators next week. I’ll be very busy whole week starting April 2nd to 10th.

That’s two months of blogging at Die without Art and my first giveaway just ended yesterday at midnight. It seems people didn’t take it serious, I recieved only two Wallpaper alert! submits, one from China and one from Croatia. Great. Both of workspaces are very creative, so I decided to use *True Random Number Generator* from random.org. It was ‘to be or not to be’ moment, simply said a 50-50 challenge. The randomness did its job…

Aaaand… the winner is… Agata Lučić, from Croatia, who wins a $25 Threadless gift.

After almost two months of writing and sharing very interesting stories from all over the creative globe, I’ve decided to run a very simple giveaway with a cool gift.

This is the first giveaway here on DwA. When I came to the idea to give something away to my readers I didn’t know what to give and what to ask in return. I realized that the tees from the huge Threadless collection are enough awesome for the creative artists and in a hope you will like it I’ve run this giveaway.

This morning was so boring in the school, so I’ve enjoyed the Twitter timeline and listened Papa Roach on my iPod until I saw my friend Nasc has published a new pixel art on his blog. He drew a TV News tower with the “Die without Art” sign on it. Nasc has included several things in tribute to the site and Twitter users who support him, including my blog, DwA.

With his young daughter Nasc has watched Disney’s new computer-animated film “Up!”, so he paid homage to the man with balloons in the work area. Can you find him? He’s so little, I know. You can see a bigger picture here.

You’ve noticed something new here? O’yes it’s a header illustration made by my dear friend Djurdjica Selec also know as Djuro. She’s amazing and really nice person, I usually call her a ninja because she kicks ass in drawing stuff. As freelance web designer and illustrator she works with the clients around the world. Djurdjica recently moved to the coast and still can’t believe it.

To realize what she meant with the illustration I asked her a few questions…

I know people who are active everywhere, in various sectors. I was overactive too until I talked to human resources and personal branding experts. They told me I should focus on things I like the most, things that I wanna work with in the future. After some balancing between the ambitions Art and blogging were the main answers, and that’s what I’m doing right now, here on DwA.

The first month of creativity and story sharing passed as the fastest train. If you followed that “train” every day, you know I’ve published over twenty articles through several categories such as photography, film, illustration and design.

Google Analytics makes me happy every midnight when I check the stats. I’ll keep those numbers my secret, but the percent of change is absolutely for the public – 188,300.00%. Are you kidding me, Google?