This is a place where you can find out more about me and what I've been up to lately.
Also, if you have any chibis you'd like to see me draw, this is a good place to request them. Be aware though, that I am working on another project that may make it difficult to fulfill those requests.
I'll also be posting random things - images and video and such - because they made me laugh or amazed me or something, and I thought you might like them too.
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"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men..." - Colossians 3:23 NIV
Hey all,
So the weekend is over, and I am so tired!
My partner Laura couldn't come this year - her health is in question - so my hubby came along. He took this pic. You can see a lot of her art on display too.
I wish I could say we did ok, but we certainly didn't even make back what we put into it, so for the third year, we haven't made enough money to cover expenses. I really want to get exposure as an artist, but I just can't keep doing this... Not only that, but NY Comic-Con and NYAF are merging next year, and I have a feeling the price of a table will be WAAAAAY out of my league...
So I started looking through the cards I picked up off the other artists' tables, and I couldn't find the one card I was looking for. This girl behind me had such awesome work, so I tracked down the seating list to find out who she was. Sure enough, it was a girl known well on DeviantART that I won't name. So I did a search on her, and boy was I not prepared for what I would find...
There are endless rants on her antics at other cons...
It seems she and her boyfriend go from con to con renting out as many as 14 tables to sell prints at each one that are pretty amazing looking, albeit all of them pretty similar in style. So this girl had two tables together behind me, and across from her someone with her boyfriend's last name had two tables together displaying practically all the same art. I mean, they weren't the same drawings, but the style similarity was too uncanny to be coincidence.
Anyway, I don't know if they had more than those 4 tables, but now I'm kind of feeling defeated as an artist, because I'm not THAT good and I can't compete with that. (Plus, I can't afford Photoshop, and I won't use a bootleg copy!) How are the rest of us supposed to get ourselves out there when they are taking up all the attention - and money - of the other con-attendees? *sigh* What I wouldn't give to even have a fan base of like, 2 people...
Anyway, this is just my little post-con rant. I don't feel like we did as well this year as we did last year, and I'm starting to wonder if it's even worth it. I still plan on working on my own original comic (of which I sold a grand total of 4 copies) whether people like it or not. The more story I have to follow, maybe I'll have a better chance of pulling people into it and getting their interest. In the meantime, I'm still wondering if I should post it up here. I kind of want to, but I have all these copies left over that definitely won't sell if I post the whole thing online. I'm not even looking for profit on them - I just want to get back some of what I spent to print them. Oh well.
So if anyone's reading this, thanks for bearing with me. Guess I'll just keep working and let the chips fall where they may.
Well, I wasn't there today (Friday), and it's a good thing, because I wasn't ready. It's almost 9pm and I've just now finished up everything. I was starting to think I wasn't going to make it.
But anyway, this year we will have some new charms and bookmarks, but I'm most excited about the fact that I finally finished my comic. Well, Chapter 1 anyway. I'm pretty sure it won't be a huge seller because I know people like fan art, and because it's Christian-themed. But that's ok. I'm just happy to have it there to give it a chance!
We didn't make any more prints this year, and I only made a few new stickers just so I could put together some sticker sets instead of selling them individually.
If you guys will be coming by the con, I'll be at table AA8 in Artist Alley. I'd like to tell you exactly where that is, but this year their interactive map isn't quite as detailed. So... hopefully I'll get to see some of you there anyway! Please stop by and say hello!
You know what else is annoying? When you write a post and then somehow manage to hit just the right combination of buttons to make the web page go back to the previous page, and then when you hit forward to go back to your post, you have to start over from scratch.
Anyway, I was saying that I just don't get anime endings these days. Last Exile, Noein, and now Tsubasa, to name a few. The first two were highly confusing, but the last - can Tsubasa's ending even be called an ending?? I don't get what's so difficult about writing an ending that answers all the questions the series creates.
And then there's Ubisoft's Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia. I never played Assassins Creed, but my hubby did and was quite confused by the ending. I did however play Prince of Persia, and I actually thought maybe I did it wrong and got the "bad" ending, like you can do in some other games (like various Castlevania games). The downloadable content helped a little but overall, must you leave the game at THAT much of a cliffhanger when we'll have to wait probably a couple of years for a resolution - if that game doesn't do the exact same thing again, that is.
So now that I've vented, I'll update. I haven't been doing any chibi drawings because right now I'm focusing all my attention on my manga. I'm averaging about a page a week, and I know that sounds slow, but I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist on my drawings. Plus, not only do I sketch it, but then I scan, correct, ink and tone. It's sort of a long process for me. I'd like to have it done by September for the NY Anime Festival, but I'm not sure if I'll actually accomplish that since I have some other obligations coming up that may take up too much of my time. But I am going to do my best and hope it works out. I have about 18 pages to go, and about 26 weeks to complete and print them. (Oh and by the way, the two characters at the top of my page are two of the main characters in my book.)
Anyway, that's about it for now. I'll leave you this week with a slideshow I put together of cosplay from the NY Anime Festival 2008. Wish it was better quality, but my computer can only handle so much rendering...
(Oh and by the way, the two characters at the top of my page are two of the main characters in my book.)