Natsucon in less than two weeks!!!
... You'd think that after my three-cons-in-a-row run back in March/April I'd realize that having less than a month turnaround between cons is a bad, bad idea.
Oh well! Better luck next year xD;;
Natsucon is a local, small con we've got in St. Louis, and it's happening July 16-18th. I'm planning on having a full table there, full of wares, along with my sister, some of her friends, and my best buddy. The main trouble is, since I spent the beginning of summer so far focusing on Anthro Con, I find myself rushing to make stuff for this anime convention! To the point where... I hardly care anymore, lol.
Well kinda. There's sort of this well known thing among Artist Alley vets that if you want to make sales, you have to make fanart, and it better be fanart that appeals to the masses. Naturally, this causes a bit of a grey area with copyright infringement... and I'm kind of tired of abusing other people's characters just so I can barely make a buck, gah. It's also a huge gamble with fanart anyway, because you don't know what sort of fans are going to be at the convention.
It also doesn't help that I happen to not be into any of the mainstream things, so if I attempted to make fanart "for the money" I'd have to force myself to draw things I don't even really care about and... I think it is obvious when I do that. I also feel incredibly uncomfortable with it... so, this has lead to me abandoning my original plan of drawing tons of characters, and instead sticking to a few I like. Over the weekend and today, I finished a set of eeveelutions, my favorite Batman characters, and Lady Gaga.
Currently, if I recycle some old designs I made last year, I have Pokemon, Batman, Lady Gaga, Hetalia, Dragon Knights, D. Gray-Man, and Persona 4 represented... It's... very obvious I haven't been in touch with "anime world" for a while, isn't it? It's so mismatched >_>
Oh well, after making a couple of Assassin Creed II related merch, I hope to focus on original work for the remaining time. They'd mostly be original trinkets though, in the form of buttons and badges!
I'm... worried about not breaking even, again! >o> As always! I did okay at Anthro Con, but this is different, this is an anime convention! And, I don't really think my style appeals to the anime crowd as much? It seems that beautiful, elegant shoujo style is what fares the best at these conventions, complete with plenty of sexy bishies (and I have none of this). I'll also be competing against this, my little sister. Yeah, I don't even know. She's easily got five times as much merch as I do (and is far more impressive)!
As far as costs go, this probably will be one of the cheapest cons, considering that I only pay for the badge! But... if you factor in supplies (i.e. printing, button maker, table display etc)... not so even. Oh dear. And then it's no more cons til next spring most likely... Unless I make it to Midwest Furfest, but that's a furry con, so my anime stuff probably wouldn't fare as well.
Ugh, this is suppose to be for fun! But... instead I feel stressed OTL For the rest of the summer, I hope to focus on original art and animation.
Oh well! Better luck next year xD;;
Natsucon is a local, small con we've got in St. Louis, and it's happening July 16-18th. I'm planning on having a full table there, full of wares, along with my sister, some of her friends, and my best buddy. The main trouble is, since I spent the beginning of summer so far focusing on Anthro Con, I find myself rushing to make stuff for this anime convention! To the point where... I hardly care anymore, lol.
Well kinda. There's sort of this well known thing among Artist Alley vets that if you want to make sales, you have to make fanart, and it better be fanart that appeals to the masses. Naturally, this causes a bit of a grey area with copyright infringement... and I'm kind of tired of abusing other people's characters just so I can barely make a buck, gah. It's also a huge gamble with fanart anyway, because you don't know what sort of fans are going to be at the convention.
It also doesn't help that I happen to not be into any of the mainstream things, so if I attempted to make fanart "for the money" I'd have to force myself to draw things I don't even really care about and... I think it is obvious when I do that. I also feel incredibly uncomfortable with it... so, this has lead to me abandoning my original plan of drawing tons of characters, and instead sticking to a few I like. Over the weekend and today, I finished a set of eeveelutions, my favorite Batman characters, and Lady Gaga.
Currently, if I recycle some old designs I made last year, I have Pokemon, Batman, Lady Gaga, Hetalia, Dragon Knights, D. Gray-Man, and Persona 4 represented... It's... very obvious I haven't been in touch with "anime world" for a while, isn't it? It's so mismatched >_>
Oh well, after making a couple of Assassin Creed II related merch, I hope to focus on original work for the remaining time. They'd mostly be original trinkets though, in the form of buttons and badges!
I'm... worried about not breaking even, again! >o> As always! I did okay at Anthro Con, but this is different, this is an anime convention! And, I don't really think my style appeals to the anime crowd as much? It seems that beautiful, elegant shoujo style is what fares the best at these conventions, complete with plenty of sexy bishies (and I have none of this). I'll also be competing against this, my little sister. Yeah, I don't even know. She's easily got five times as much merch as I do (and is far more impressive)!
As far as costs go, this probably will be one of the cheapest cons, considering that I only pay for the badge! But... if you factor in supplies (i.e. printing, button maker, table display etc)... not so even. Oh dear. And then it's no more cons til next spring most likely... Unless I make it to Midwest Furfest, but that's a furry con, so my anime stuff probably wouldn't fare as well.
Ugh, this is suppose to be for fun! But... instead I feel stressed OTL For the rest of the summer, I hope to focus on original art and animation.