I’m not the most patient person in the world, especially when I have work in the next few hours. So when a fast-food joint has me waiting nearly 20 minutes. Granted, the food was good, but not worth the wait. Pranas would differ, but whatevs!
Also, I have a terrible habit of sulking about past mistakes. Ah well!
Yadda yaddda, you know the drill, I cant remember what I did today so I draw something kinda neat from a videogame I played. It’s all I really do when I’m not working, drawing, or, you know, being cool.
Goddammit Savannah, we need more Monster Hunter players, what’s wrong with you?!!
I will never stop working for YOU! Achey-ness ain’t never gon’ bring me down!
Good god, I don’t think I’ve ever been more tired in my life that today, all weekend I maybe got 4 hours of sleep for ever 16 I was awake, and I got MAYBE 5 hours of sleep on the ride home, so for work… it was something of a living hell.
But I got through it cause I’d spent the weekend having loads of fun.
Well, another con comes to a close, and looking back, it was a fantastic weekend! I met so many great people, made several new fans, and rolled in commission dough! I learned so many wonderful things about tabling, and met a good online friend for the first time!
Overall, I give this con a B+, while I was severally unprepared, I happend to make the most out of it, and didn’t hide behind my con-table all weekend, and I got out and had some godammned fun!
Hope to see all you Adventurers there next year, dammit!
Okay, so in essence, I ditched the whole indy vibe I tried to hold up for the convention, but in all honesty, I really just wanted to make the money I spent on the table back, and gee golly gosh did I!
The whole weekend was just a great lesson in con-tabling for me. And while I’ve been to SPX, I didn’t really know how to pull off a really good eye-catching table until now! Anime con-tablers has a real knack at eye-catching, they know how to put what people want to see most out there so it can real people in, and the answer, is fanart!
That’s right, me doodling Flapjack is why I sold nearly any comics, with out those sketches, I would have had a few dubious stares like the day before, and next to no sales, or any face time at all! So, I’ve decided to set up an entirely new mantra to con-tabling, with the art of the eye-catch.
Of course, this mostly includes anime and comic conventions, when I go to SPX this fall, I’m going to need to exercise a little more subtlety, since I’d like to be taken a little seriously, but I still want to actually make some sort of money. So I’ll probably make a few prints to sell, or whatever. All I know is that Otakon made me rethink how I table.
So anyway, without further a-do, here’s what I call the commission gallery, sorry for the bad quality, but I just took quicky pictures before I gave them to the commissionee:
My first Commission! I actually sniped it from my table-mate Cali when she admitted she didnt know bout Lupin.
My First Sketch Drawn out of Boredom on Saturday, caught alot of attention. Go Flapjack!
Drawn for Esca and her boyfriend, they commissioned me to draw alot of their characters! I was really flattered!
Edward Crying Diamonds, does it get any better? Super fun to draw.
Yes.
Holy Shit, Lupin is fun to draw!!!
Well, that’s all for today, tune in tommorrow for the Post-Con depression, yay!
Holy cow, was this a crazy day. Thankfully Id already lugged my crap into the artist alley the night before, so I was fully prepared in that respect, but after setting up my meager table, I knew not what awaited me:
The Table, Who's layout would be changed many a time.
And to start off… woo yeah, slow going. people barely each stopped to look at the prints, almost as if they were afraid of some sort of punishment for touching it! I’ll have to find a friendlier way to show off the prints next time.
The comics were getting some good look-over time, though I began to doubt the idea was good. After I while I started to get really bored while con-goers waddled about the floor, and not looking at my stuff, Kara, Witney and Cali, my partners in crime, assured me that friday’s were always slow, and it always picks up on Saturday.
While this may be true,I became extremely restless, and decided to wander the floor with my good friend Tom, who I’d known for years via the information super highway, and so we decided to visit the dealer’s room to find the true treasure I was searching for:
Monster Hunter: Illustrations, The Jewel of the Dealer Floor!
After that small spurt, and a recharge of the tummy-tank, I was back in the alley, and I’d learned that some folk had stopped by to see me! And they left their names on my guestbook.
So, I started sketching Captain’ K’nuckles, since I really didn’t have anything going on, and I left the sketch on the table, and THAT caught people’s attention! Suddenly people would actually stop in their tracks to see me! I’d stumbled on a secret weapon…
But then I decided to go get inebreated with Tom and watch the dub of Evangelion 1.0, and that was pretty sweet. Afterwards, we were going to a panel about voice acting, but the line was too damned long, so we decided to part ways and get some sleep.
A perfect end to a perfect day! Perhaps tommorow will show prominence?! FIND OUT SOON!
(Note: The Otakon Experience is atleast 10% time spent waiting on lines to see something, it’s a must, since there’s about 30,000 nerds running about the damned place!)
Posted from a Pinera Bread on our last leg of the trip, do you know how I bleed for you folks?!
Anywho, It’s pretty weird driving with three other girls cause eventually you get shoved out of the conversation, since I can’t really relate to how awesome it would be if Kirk stuck his tounge in Spock’s mouth.
The new guys, not Shatner and Neemoy… cause then I could relate.
Can I get a hells yeah?! See you crazies at Otakon!
Nothing gives me a rush like making minicomics! Well, that and lines of coke.
Ha-Cha-Cha-Cha!
Well, I’m going to be having an art table at Otakon this year, sharing with my good friend Kara Leopard, but I’m just the slightest bit worried that my style and strips won’t exactly tantalize anime fans, mostly because all they would want to see it, of course, more animes.
Here’s hoping I’m wrong!