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Now that I've got the four Death Note characters chibified, I need to think of other characters to chibify for keychains and such. XD

Off to Jo-Anns to buy a larger circle punch, because I think I can get some stickers or something out of these if I make them bigger than the 1 1/8" keychain size.

IS IT WINGS AGAIN? IS IT? IS IT?

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...will I ever recover my self-respect?

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...of my SELLING OUT AGAINST EVERYTHING I STAND FOR...

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I take it that people kind of like the Grimmjow keychain...

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...I HAVE JOINED THE DARK SIDE.

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This is taking way too long. AGH

( art )

This is an incredibly long reply I wrote to someone on the forums at Manga Revolution, who asked for tips on selling prints in artist alleys. About halfway through I realized it needed to be written up as a tutorial, with better organization and design, and plan on doing so but thought I'd solicit other people's advice and experiences with selling art at anime cons, so am posting it here first.

I didn't even get into the mechanics of selling: change, keeping track of sales, whether to store prints on the table or behind it, etc. Advice and stories on that appreciated. :)

Naturally, this advice is geared towards anime conventions, not regular SF or comic cons, as that's what I sell at.

ETA: I didn't edit the BBcode into HTML, so the links look a bit funny. :)

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I posted the Drum Beat Heart Beat picture on Manga Revolution. If you could go to its page and click "Major Style!" to the lower right, I'd be glad of it. :D (And then just visit my main page there because with 30 more visits another site scheme opens up for me and I'm curious to see what it is. XD)

Thanks!

I mostly suck at drawing chibis, so I spent the entire evening practicing them, just copying them from various Bleach sketches in the tankoubons, and from one of the how-to-draw-manga type books that wasn't actually a How To Draw Manga book.

After all that, I finally did one on my own - not refined or anything, still in quick sketch form. Interesting fact: having previously drawn Grimmjow Jaggerjack before is not actually any help whatsoever in rendering his mullet in chibi format.

( Awww, who's a cute widdle Awwancaw? )

Finished! At least for now. :)

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Partway through tinting.

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I think I might actually be done with the black-and-white version of the drummer pic.

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A picture I've been dying to come back to, but hadn't been able to because of the anthology.

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Ya wanna see it, huh, huh?

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She's got one, now! Thanks!

There's someone on my f-list who is planning a Sekrit Project of commissioning someone to create a family painting from reference photos. But she can't post about it on her LJ because her family, who are the subjects of the painting, read it and the picture is meant to be a surprise. :) The budget is $100-150, and the deadline is early June. If you're interested, email her at project (at) magatsu (dot) net, which should forward to her regular email, or email me and I'll put you in touch with her. :)

ETA: If you know of any artist who might be interested, please point them this way!

OF COURSE my brain is busy generating ideas that I can't really put into play in time for A-Kon. the_z posted a suggestion for a simple card game thing on my previous idea-generating post, and my brain wants to see if we can make it go viral.

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...as I have a meeting in an hour and have to have something to doodle to keep me awake and focused during it.

Thanks to the scrapbooking craze, I've managed to lay my hands on an inexpensive laminator* and some paper punches to make phone straps/keychains/charms/whatever with. So I'm looking for ideas for themed-type pictures to do for those type of items, like zodiac symbols or whatever.

Details: The images are going to be only an inch to an inch and a half in size. Nothing elaborate. Simple is the key. The problem with the European zodiac is that there's a full 12 symbols, which is a lot to do in two months. The Chinese zodiac has that same problem, plus is currently inextricably associated in my mind with Fruits Basket. The traditional four elements might work, but is now associated with Avatar in my head, arg. The Four Bishounen of the Apocalypse** are good, and I'll probably do new versions of them, but I don't want to add to the line as (a) they would no longer be the Four Bishounen of the Apocalypse, losing part of the joke, and (b) there's only so far you can take a good joke anyway.

So: any ideas of characteristics, labels, quiz results, etc. that you might see on a small piece of swag at an anime con?



* Which also makes stickers and magnets, amusingly enough.

** If you're new here, they're Snarky, Angsty, Brooding, and Cute.

OK, I think I did REAL DAMN GOOD by holding off until today to really let loose with one of the tutorials from that book I mentioned a few days ago, instead of doing it earlier. Not that I'm finished with ANYTHING else I need to be doing, but oh well.

( Embedding pic from DA under cut. Cutting because I'm not entirely sure it'll work without messing up your layout. )
I'm about to post a walkthrough on DA. I'll let ya know when it's up.

ETA: It's up!

Also, it's posted on MangaRevolution. Feel ABSOLUTELY NO PRESSURE to go there and give it Style Points or anything like that. NONE AT ALL.