Post Convention Report

I had a bit of fun at my last convention. Okay, a lot! I shared a table with one of my good friends Carol. She sells jewellery like earnings, necklaces and other fancy things. Here's her shop on Etsy. She had a ton more stuff for the convention, like a pair of creeper earrings!! Those of you who love minecraft will know what I'm talking about. A couple of friends popped by and said 'Hello' which I liked. I love being able to see a familiar face in the crowd. Again with this convention as well as many other I got many requests for custom paintings, which I love being able to do. One customer asked for a snoopy, which I unfortunately did not take a picture of, but I did have the inclination to paint a Charlie Brown.

(One customer couldn't stop laughing at Charlie Brown, she was in some hysterical laugher mode, and couldn't believe that she found my paintings.) 

I brought in some new stock for the convention, I added Pokemon to the collection. 

I think I might change the design of Charmander and Bulbasaur, I don't care for the 'shine spot' on their heads. I might also add a Master Ball and an Ultra Ball to the Pokemon paintings. I'm also thinking for the next big convention I will be adding quite a few things:

- Sailor Moon and her scouts

- Power Puff Girls (Mojojo - maybe)

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 

- Possibly Adventure Time (maybe if I have time)

Till next time! 

Commissions

I recently had a commission on my Etsy Site where someone had requested a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The character's name is Rei I believe, and the person who requested her is a huge fan :) She asked for two magnets one for her fridge and one for her collection. They are magnet Tangles and their design changed through the painting process. I went with the first one because of the way the hair fell. I hope she likes them! 

I usually write a card with every thing I send out, it's just a 'Thank you' card and a little drawing too.  For the customer that asked for the commission, I decided to draw the commissioned character. And I coloured it too! I hope she'll like the surprise@

This is what I usually put for the people who order the Harry Potter trio from my store.  It's just the Harry Potter characters as cute little chibis. I picked that style because of how easy/quick it would be to draw and still get the care it would need to show the customers how grateful I am for their business. Harry always ends up with bigger glasses. 

Till next time!

See you guys at the con!! 

Adam West!

He's sooooo dreamy!! 

And he has such an awesome chin!! 

But nothing can get past his awesomely drawn on eyebrows, he is always going to be that happy. This was actually a commission for my boyfriend. He had told me how much he had loved Adam West's Batman, and I thought I'd surprise him with this. 

On another note I have confirmation that I have a table for the convention in March. MTAC, March Toronto Anime Convention, held in the metro convention centre. 

My friend Carol and I will be selling our stuff, and if you're in the area please come by!

Here are the Convention times:

March 10th : 11:00 - 18:00

March 11th :  11:00 - 17:00

Tickets are $20 for a day pass or $30 for the whole weekend!

Till next time!

Mr. SquarePants

The one problem with SpongeBob is that his name suggests that he has "square pants", however his pants are rectangular. Blasphemy you say, but take a closer look: 

His pants... Rectangular!! And yes he is very porous I can't deny that. I do my painting in layers and SpongeBob is about 10 layers. I also do multiples of each character to save on time. So right now I have 9 sets of SpongeBob eyes looking at me, and they're all smiling. It's a bit creepy but it's SpongeBob so it's okay. He's a little one only 2 inches by 2.75 inches, and I'm still debating making bigger paintings of him. It would enhance the "Tangles" experience, but I'm lazy. Maybe not for the next convention, possibly Anime North. They get all the good stuff. 

 I'm going to make a post next Sunday with the bigger drawing of the elephant picture that I posted in early January. I'm really proud of that piece and I'll be putting it up in my room when I get it back from my evaluation. 

Till next time! 

Sick Again

I should start counting out how many times I get sick a school year. Sorry this is probably going to be very short. First picture is from my sketch-book. It going along with this awesome artist called Mattias. His work is just mind blowing for me and I wish I able to have as much dedication as he does. 

 

Can you guess what I'm painting?

Till next time!

Beginnings

For the next few days I'll be moving my sales site from Artfire to Etsy. No reason really, I just want to. The new site will be Tangles on Etsy From now on I will be updating this blog on every other Sunday and post a few pictures of what I'm doing. These posts are going to be a bit shorter than the previous depending on how much drawing I'm actually doing. But I'm going to make it regular. 

I want to try something different with my sketches for my sketch book. I'm trying to use more of the space given by the sketchbook. I'm trying not to limit my self to just one side. It's tough for me and I'm not used to it at all. I'm doing an Image and Narrative class this semester and I need to be able to work out my ideas in a systematic way and follow a time line. And see it through completely to the end. 

So I'm trying to work out what the assignment is about, it's pretty vague with hardly any direction. The one line we are supposed to get our ideas from is "The human factor, Animal myths, What I know and how I know it". And I'm struggling a bit. I'm more of a "here's a project, this is how you do it, now do it" sort of person. I may recycle some ideas that I've had in regards to previous projects but right now I'm aiming for the "Animal myths" part of that line. It reminded me of Dumbo, and that's sort of a Disney myth that most of us grew up with. 

So now that elephant looks a bit high and I think I might add clouds, pink ones. 

Till next time!

Happy New Year

Everybody have a good Christmas? I know I did! I got so many supplies for Christmas it was awesome. I got stuff for art I wouldn't even buy for myself because they were too extravagant. But I'm glad I've got the chance to try it out. I got a brand new sketchbook and I can't wait to get drawing/painting/doodling. I go crazy for art supplies. I think most artists are like that, I swear it's not only me. Well so ends another year! Well almost any way. I wanted to end the year on a good note, and show a couple of my sketchbook doodles from last year, that I did around this time. And I'm also adding a Resolution List down at the bottom of this post. 

First one is of an Octopus floating in the air with a bunch of balloons. It doesn't get out of the water very much and it is very happy. Air travel is much cheaper this way. Both of these are 9in x 12in, from my sketchbook. The second one is a doodle as well, just me wanting to test out inks and how they work. 

The last picture is of my doodles and future product designs. I was wanting to make some little key-chains as well as some earrings but I'm not entirely sure I will do them. 

Resolution List

1. Work in different mediums when doing stuff in my sketchbook. 

I really want some variety in what I do in my sketchbook. I want to experiment with inks and pastels, so many possibilities.

2. Get some bookmarks done. 

I'm going to start selling them at Conventions, and then possibly sell them on the website if they do well enough.

3. Get some key-chains done.

4. Put more stuff on sale on the web-site

5. Attend more Conventions.

I think I did four Conventions this year, I really like them and I want to do more, but I have to sacrifice more time and find a way to balance everything including my homework. 

6. Go to Sweden!

Not really a resolution but I'm hoping!  

7. Make the blog posts more regular. 

I really want to do a post every second Wednesday or something to get me on a better schedule. 

8. Start an online comic. 

I've already written a story, (not completed yet) I would like to start drawing it!

I was wanting a rounder number, but I'll add more if I can think of anything else.

I hope everyone has a great time at New Years, where ever you might be! :D

Well, till next year!