EDIT: Oh my googly-boogly! I have all the prints printed out and they look sooooo WONDERFUL!!! It’s such a weird feeling of accomplishment seeing your own work printed like this TT.TT I added them to the gallery below. Also I have the bookmarks printed too! Some of you might remember the bookmark design that I had for my kickstarter *which wasn’t able to reach it’s goal but I plan on trying again next year ^^* well I have that printed out plus a bookmark of the chibi’s of Chasity and Prince Lonelle with the puff bunnies. I had them laminated with card stock so it’s really sturdy and snazzy looking =D! I’m all set for the convention…..no I still have to get a table cloth but besides that I’m ready to face this thing head on! Hopefully my personality will be able to fit well at the convention TT_TT I might do a small video of everything depending on how my hair looks and how I’m feeling…..just don’t hold your breath on that one *I’m really aging myself with all of these old lingo’s*
I’m really excited to announce that the books that I ordered are finally in!! Here are some pictures below, please excuse the picture quality because I had to use my laptop and it kind of depends with that thing (-_- )ゞ:
I also want to say that compared to my first test print run that I did back in 2010 or 09 *I think* I didn’t realize how much of a difference paper quality makes on a comic. With these new books that I printed with a new company, who by the way has a 3-4 day turnaround after proof approval, the paper quality turned out amazing! I just love how well my art and tone and just everything looks on it! I definitely plan on using them again in the near future once I get the first volume finished and ready for my second shot at doing a kickstarter. Of course volume one won’t be ready until some time in April or May of next year.
The comic convention is tomorrow *Iowa Comic Book Convention aka ICON* and I’m super nervous still and I haven’t even had a chance to get the prints ready to print off. I don’t know the first thing about print, printing so I really hope everything turns out well. I also plan on doing sketch commissions while I’m there to help raise more funds. If everything goes well for this convention I was thinking about going to one of the conventions in Ohio. I usually go to Ohio once each year to visit my family so if I can kill tow birds with one stone and just stay at my family’s house while selling more work at the Ohio convention then I think that might work ^^;
For those of you who need a fast and quality printer please feel free to stop by RA Comis Direct and test them out with some of your print orders. I am very happy with how my books turned out and even more so with customer service because I had a lot of questions and because of the time frame I was really worried that the books wouldn’t get here on time but they reassured me that they will make sure to have the books to me on Friday and guess what? They got here a day early! After I came home from picking my hubby up from work I stepped outside our front door and saw the box sitting there nicely. Of course I had to do a little dance and run off to show someone but the point is that they work fast, the customer service was professional and attentive, the prices where reasonable and I will definitely be using them again! Thank you RA Comics Direct!
I plan on posting up one more weekly update tomorrow with the images from the comic convention. I really hope to sell everything and not get artist hand lock from doing sketch commissions on the spot. Drawing in public has never really been on of my strong suits. I’m usually tucked away in my art room upstairs drawing or hidden off some place like a bear, so doing commissions in front of everyone will definitely be a life experience for me and on top of that since I draw so much and have children all under the age of 4 right now I don’t have much time to watch any of the anime shows that are out right now….well except for pbs kids and such so if someone at the con wants a picture of the cat in the hat or curious George or Thomas the train then I’m set, but if someone wants something from adventure time or whatever that show is called….or any other show for that matter then I am up a creek and without a paddle. So~ I guess you’ll all have to wait and see to find out what happens with that ^^;
Now I wanna go even more QnQ. I want all of your stuff including a book. If I pay for it can I have the book too? And you should come to Denver Comic Con or Nan Desu Con if your thinking of going to any other cons.
Of course just let me know what you’d all like and I can set that aside. The books will be $10, one poster is $15 and the bookmarks $5 but you can bundle all three of these for $20 as a special bundle sale so feel free to let me know what interest you the most and don’t worry if you aren’t able to afford them because I definitely understand and I’m just happy to have someone interested in wanting my art =D It’s a very happy and exciting feeling and I appreciate you just asking about it <3
I looked at Denver's comic con site and that one looks so fresh and exciting! I'd love to check that one out some day^^ Thank you Lina!
Ooo can I have the bundle? QuQ signed too? please please please? And if you do know for certain you might be going to Denver comic con I will definitely go just to meet you <3
Of course you can have a signed bundle <3 I'll even leave a special message just for you Lina~ You're so kind! If I ever make it to the Denver comic con then I'll be the girl with the goofy smile and wide eyed look on her face =D I was so impressed with all of the cosplay's at this comic convention I wanted to take as many pictures as I could without looking like a tourist. ^^;
So um…. is there any way i can bribe you into reserving me a book and some bookmarks? I’m so jealous of the people going to your convention.-_-
God, I wish I could teleport to Iowa and then back to Texas. But the gas would kill me. So bribery? Please say you’re interested.
Of course I’ll reserve some for you! <3 I'm just happy to see that people are interested in buy them and even want to meet me at the convention, it's very touching!! I'll go ahead and set aside on of the books and with the book marks would you like one of Oriana or the bookmark with the chibi Chasity and the Prince? Thank you leaving me a comment, I've actually been a little envious of those who are in Texas because of the comic conventions down there and comic clubs at the library over in Iowa the comic and manga following is pretty small and even with this convention I'm not all sure what to expect with meeting everyone. I hope that I can meet other comic artist and some professionals to learn from~ Sooo nervous~ *I still need to have my sister do my hair TTVTT*
So jealous! Come to me state next but i will be college when u do!!! Stupid young lol!!!! St. Louis , MO. Sad part is that there is animecon only in IL… °^° being broke hurts but beside that i would like to see you comic in person (and owner of course) lol
The funny thing about that is I was actually looking at some of the conventions in MO ^^ I would have made that my next one had the prices for the artist alley table not been so high. You’re right being broke stinks. Somebody should just invent a pretend money tree so that I can at least pretend like I have some money to do all these conventions (ノ><)ノ
Great pictures for a laptop. XD OHHHHHHHH YES COME TO OHIO!!! That’s where I am! 😀 I go to most some of them. Feel free to email me if you’re interested in talking about it. 😀
NVM about the con report in my other comment, looks like you’ll have photos. XD Yay!
Hahaha! It looks like we keep bouncing from comment to comment <3 Definitely let me know if you hear of any comic conventions in Ohio because my family lives in Cincinnati and I use to live in Dayton, Huber Heights, Toledo, and Cincinnati so I know the area well enough to not get lost to badly ^^; The next trip that I plan on taking to Ohio should be sometime in May...which is like right after my 1 year anniversary for my website O.O
I really hope they have a convention during that time TTVTT As always Thank you so much you're so helpful Aisazia! <3