Life is going swell as I’ve been dabbling on art projects while attending shows and events over the autumn season. I’ve been fluctuating with my moods for most of the time and reworking my priorities list. Some days, I lose focus on my big needs of my art career. Seasonal depression might be the culprit, but I’m hanging in there and not losing focus in the unimportant stuff.
Continue readingI’m still on the grind with conventions as I announce the places I’m going to throughout the autumn season!
First, a big reminder that I’ll be up north at WaukeCon in Waukegan,Il once again! For my second year in the convention and my third time doing a show after my surprise visit to ArtWauk, Waukegan is a nice town with passionate artists doing their best. It a cozy show of local artist showing their love of the Sci-Fi works of Ray Bradbury!
Continue readingMy workload keeps slipping as I’m flopping between making new art, promoting old art, learning about art, and making posts about art. With the time crunch, I can’t let it bring me down.
Continue readingThis Saturday weekend in Downtown Aurora,IL, I’ll be tabling at Alley Art Fest on August 26th!
It’s an outdoor show so make sure you prep for the elements.While you’re enjoying the sun and smiles, stop by my table to grab a sticker or two!
Summer wasn’t as eventful as I’d wanted but I was working on a large illustration to fill the time. I’ll elaborate on this at a later date, but for now here’s a fast time lapse of the process.
Between that and my dayjob, I tabled at a decent amount of conventions and shows during he last weeks of July!
Continue readingAs prolific as I am with this conventions, most of my knowledge is from the school of hard knocks. If you want a break-down of the arduous task of tabling at these conventions, take some time to listen to Alice the Author as she goes through her hour-to-hour break down of selling books at CODCon!
Most of this stuff I learned in the School of hard knocks myself, so Alice’s vid has fantastic insights on selling work at conventions.
A current new thing I’m doing with my setups for smaller conventions is to take a smaller amount of inventory with me. I don’t go more than a dozen of each of my large stickers, and I don’t bring every print or book I have with me on my trips. Library shows are a smaller one day showing, so even if I sell out, It’s not a big problem.
This system has also been a good way to not just manage my sale but analyze the rate my items sell. If demand is low for an item, I stop printing more and keep my table setups lean.
As I go around Artist Alley’s at conventions and hear about them, I write them down in a Spreadsheet on Google Docs. The majority of this list consist of events in my home state of Illinois. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start for any other artists seeking to do more conventions.
I have a full year packed with cool conventions and events! Take a look through my Convention Schedule to see where I’ll be next!
For the next month I’ll be at a good variety of small events! There, I’m selling my artwork and meeting cool folks! If you miss out, I still have my online store on Etsy!
On July 7th and 8th, The Sticker Snobs 2nd Year Anniversary Show will be happening at McCarty Mills Taproom in Aurora, IL!
This is a smaller local event where me and many great local Illinois artists will be showing off our framed sticker art and having sticker packs for sale! If you know me, you know I’m all about my stickers, so come on by this July and check out our stickers!
On July 22nd I’m vending at the Matteson Area Public Library Fan Fest!
You want my stickers! You want my books! You want my art! You can get it at Matteson Library!
And finally on July 29th I’ll have a table at Comicopolis in Lockport, IL! It’s always a good event with Artists, Panels, and activities both indoors and outdoors for this Summer event!
This time I have both my stickers and Playmats for Sale, so come on by! I’m also still open for commissions, so hit me up on that too!
I have a full year packed with cool conventions and events! Take a look through my Convention Schedule to see where I’ll be next!
Howdy ho all! Taking a break from my Tears of the Kingdom addiction to bring you news of conventions, streaming, and drawing! I haven’t had much to say for the past few months as I’ve been keeping my nose to the ground.
This weekend, I’ll be at Anime Central once more! And as a treat, I’m offering Early Bird Traditional Art Commissions before the 19th of May!
With this exclusive ACEN only offer, You’ll get 20% off a 9×12 traditional art commission of your choice! Once you get to Artist Alley at my Table G38, You get your commission from me personally!
As of writing this, I’m now 31 years old and introspective about my art journey so far! I continue to tackle new conventions as I keep my head on a swivel! I’ve been sketching small bits of art on my social sites over the month, but I’ve kept myself busy going to cons, taking other art commissions and recording livestreams!
I’ll be honest and say that we haven’t made that much progress on Blackmask from last January to now. My programmer took time off for a vacation, so he’s been away from his computer. I myself have been taking other art commissions and streams, but we’ll be in touch with majors changes as soon as possible. I’ve been sketching small bits of art on my social sites over the month, I’ve been sloppy about posting my art here in a way that is an easy to find.
