For Aurore‘s contest…!

And thus concludes my first Artist Alley experience. It was awesome! I got to sell some stuff, meet cool people, buy awesome shit, and take a lot of pics of cosplays! I was so happy to see so many people I knew from DA and/or various sites, including those who don’t even live in Toronto.

I saw Alex who shared the table with me, Boram, Niku, DigiAvalon, Nikufei, Studio Qube, Holly, Udon Crew (omg), and many more that I don’t recall the DAs of. Boram and Niku were sooooo cool and sweet and I was so happy to meet them. Niku has the best haircut in the world, I wish I was awesome enough to look cool in stuff like that )=. The Udon guys just made me thought WHY ARE THE UDONS HERE LOL THEY SHOULD BE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AND BE IN THE DEALERS’ ROOM.

I was also so happy that people who knew me came to say hi and some of them signed the guestbook too (that I couldn’t have out 80% of the time cus of the lack of space). Some people came up to ask for autographs on their program books LOL ”’orz and I kind of signed differently on some of them cus my hands slipped.

I’ve never paid attention to artist alley setup last year so i didn’t know we could hang up stuff. The first day made me realize how small the tables really are. I saw ppl put up poles and stuff to hang their pieces and all I have is what I have on the table. I don’t have table clamps either so I didn’t know what to do. On saturday, my mom gave me these bamboo sticks that she just happens to have (she has so much crap LOL) and Chris, Jenny and another friend of mine helped me create my ghetto setup: taping the sticks to the table, keeping them in place with bricks that Chris took from outside, connecting them with a piece of yarn and hanging my art with clothing clips LOLOL.

It kept threatening to fall over but it didn’t. I should’ve like cut out shapes of panties and shirts and hung them along with my prints. Next year I’ll know!

I didn’t buy much stuff cus I didn’t take much money with me whenever my shift is done, and things are sexpensive ]= I DID BUY A PANDA(mouse) HAT AND A DEVIRUCHI HAT THO O: (this is like RO shopping) the devi hat is so comfy and I wanna wear it outside even when I go to school and stuff LOL. except i’ll get laughed at like a stupid loser rofl

My Basilica pic did really well and I sold like 50 copies of it; I was so glad that they accidentally gave me like 40 extra copies of the print at the print store LOL. (and not extra copies of the unpopular pieces) The generic pretty girls lil prints sold a lot too; the ones that sold the least sold about 15-20 copies each as well so I am really really happy. The bookmarks went nuts and I am also happy that I accidentally printed too many copies of them, because I would’ve ran out. They beat the pieces that I spend a lot of time on! Popular series ftw ”’orz Strangely, the recent bloody pic of Blackbird and Veloce were one of the better selling ones, though it creeped some parents out LOL. quote: “mom look at that!” “oh my god she’s BLEEEEEDING!” The Auction pieces also all got sold, and Basilica’s bids went up to $63. I was like bowing to the people who bought them and came to ask for signatures on them ;___; I was thinking I’d take them to Otakon to display if they don’t go too. Mentally, I was in tears.

Albeit exhausting, it was a fun 3 days. I was actually hyper and super awake during my shifts despite only getting a few hours of sleep each night. My legs are yelling at me cus I usually like walk less than 50 meters everyday around my house. Mayshing, Chris/Insoo, Starry and I just confirmed our tables at Otakon recently. With such a fun experience behind, I really look forward to going to Otakon! =D

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE REST OF THE PICTURE SPAM. SMALL PICTURES OF COSPLAYS AND OTHER RANDOM STUFF /o/

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Man I am such a loser making a huge deal out of this. *goes back to making lil price tags*

Anime North is near and I am nervous/excited about it! Excited cus I’ll lose my artist alley virginity, nervous cus there’s no one to fall with me if I mess up anything )=

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Anime North is approaching and since my dad found out, he decided to take the liberty of trying to find a place for cheaper printing. He did find one that’s really cheap, so I decided to go check it out today and went with the most problematic picture I have for printing: Basilica (because of its washed out colours and soft gradients, slightly incompetent printers seem to skrew the job up easily in my previous experiences =\.) It’s half the price of Staples and it doesn’t have rip fees, but when I saw the test print (I paid for it) I realized why it’s so cheap. it’s like the worst print I’ve seen of it ever lolol.

Here is the other test print I made at Staples. They’re some pretty awesome people =D (for a price)

But even then, it doesn’t really match the quality of the DA print of another piece of mine that I bought way earlier. DA may be pricy, but they’re quality. now if only their shipping isn’t like, $10239875…

On a completely different note: it rained for the first time in a while today, albeit short. It was 10 minutes of serein though, and I saw TWO arcs of rainbow!! but the second one is really faint )=. The landscape outside my window isn’t that great, so the photos I took aren’t very attractive, but this is the first time I’ve seen a complete arc of rainbow so it’s a big deal…! /o/

You can see the realllllly faint second arc on this:

I tried to get the whole arc, but my window is kinda small and I can’t back off )= and it’s raining outside so I can’t get out either.

To conclude, here are some more random compositionally unthoughtful photos that I took of things that I thought were pretty.

AND YOU HAVEN’T SEEN HER IN A WHILE!! =D

I feel so guilty drawing the skeletons because i was going to learn some human anatomy properly this summer (on my own), but this picture happened before that (can’t be helped, AN in 2 weeks!) and I ended up having to literally copy off of my reference book without trying to understand its forms and structure =( strike me with (literary) thunder and lightning! ”’orz

Sometimes when I have nothing better to do, (this situation alone makes me a huge lamer already) I remember things that I have thought about or things that made me question my beliefs of the time. My mom chat with me last night and brought back an old question that I feel pretty strongly about, but never really spent much time thinking about it everytime it hit me. We were talking about my marks in the beginning but went a little general in the end on the topic of how people should live their lives.

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more WIP of the bookmarks. Their names sort of sound like a palindrome o/

It’s terrible, I’ve been sleeping at 3am and getting up at 1pm everyday. I got 6 pages of manga done, updated layouts for both sites, and practiced a little. I have to work on my convention stuff soon and get my application for Elora sent out and get in touch with my piano teacher and change back my stupid sleeping habit and stuff. Little chores everywhere, but I must say i prefer this over school. Just like Christmas, only 1 week of vacation has threw me completely off the tangent of pursuing music, nooooooooooooooo

But here are 2 (.5?) out of 10 bookmark things I’m drawing! no not all 10 are KH2 lol.

And I forgot my camera’s cable in London, but I was able to access it via my printer, so here are some antiques I found in the memory card.

Completely off-topic; yesterday when I drove out, I saw 2 cops pointing speed guns at my direction. Lucky I just took a turn and didn’t drive too fast. When I drove back, I saw some poor young dude getting caught and pulled over. I was so bad to laugh at him but I couldn’t resist, the look on his face when he passed by was hilarious.