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Anifest Artist's Alley

November 5, 2024

The fated day finally came!! Definitely was a stressful time. I made stands for the sticker promo board and the board I hung the posters on at the makerspace earlier in the day. Me and my friend also made cute little fandom labels for the stickers.

I invited quite a few of my friends to come hang out during this debacle. It was a blessing and a curse. One of my friends in particular kept on pissing me off by constantly nagging me abt how "increase profits." Actually got pissed off to such a high degree but I digress.

Anyways, the event was really cute. There were a LOT of vendors. Hot damn, was the room crowded. A lot of them were also seasoned vendors which was pretty crazy. I wish I had gone around and been more friendly to them, but I see why I didn't this event had me exhausted before it even began.

I ended up setting the pricing as: 3$ for one large sticker, 5$ for two large stickers, $1 for one small sticker, and $15 for one poster.

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Things I learned:

Less clutter! The table was really overwhelming and I'd like space to put my laptop for excel tracking xP

Actually have people follow my art account for receiving my stamp for the stamp rally

Just chillll, have a good timee. It'll be a lot easier when I do it again because 90% of the work will already be done, but I still need to remember that this is for the fun sillies and that I don't need to focus on numbers at all.

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According to my Excel sheet (which definitely is not 100% accurate because I forsure missed a few things), the data is as follows:

58 Stickers Sold

0 Posters Sold

Cost: 141.35

Revenue: 118

Profit: -23.35

Note: the cost includes sticker paper/some supplies that I didn't actually use, but because it was related I included it. Also, the vinyl was apparently 50$ which I swear it wasn't- never in my right mind would I buy that. Still put it in as 50$ because whtvr.

The most popular sticker designs were: The Knight (13), Coraline (7), and Grimm (6).

**Some of them were traded for other stickers / not exactly sold**

0 posters sold?? Yepppp. I think it's less of a pricing problem, but more of a people just weren't interested in the fandoms. I would've sold them for any amount of money tbh, but noone seemed interested. Plus, I tried to do a poster trade with someone and they declined because they weren't familiar with any of the fandoms. I mean I didn't know the fandoms their posters were about either, but ig a lot of people aren't interested in posters purely for the illustration 🥲🥲

So I have a lot of posters... Teehee. I'll definitely try to sell them next year again (as I will with the leftover stickers), but I don't know if it'll make much of a difference. Hopefully, though 🙏🙏🙏

Idk man it's strange because I genuinely look at those four pieces and am so proud that I made it. Like the craftsmanship yo. I can't tell if I'm genuinely just being delusional, but it's not like anyone close to me has given me the impression that they're actually terrible drawings either.

Ofc my own opinion is what matters most, and despite the doubt that the lack of sales for these posters has given me, it hasn't changed how much I absolutely love those pieces. Especially because the technique I used changes for each one. All of them give me a different thought of "I can't believe I made that" and takes me out of the whole 'I can immediately tell how I made that' mindset that I fall into when subconsciously trying to devalue my art/skills. I really have to think to recall the techniques I used to make each piece (O.K. maybe not the hellboy one but still), because they're all so damned complicated. Idk I love them a lot, but I will be forever a little bit bummed that other people don't love them as much as I.

Posters | Multifandom (see below)

November 1 - 2, 2024

Nov 1 - Printing + Pickup

Nov 2 - Cutting excess print margins

Printer Ink on Paper

The posters I made for Anifest! Fully realized and tangible!!

There are 4 designs:

Made in Abyss | Riko, Meinya, Reg, Nanachi, Prushka, Turbinid Dragon

Hellboy | Hellboy

Jujutsu Kaisen | Sukuna

Spirited Away | Bathhouse, No face

Did some test prints at my uni. Would've straight up just printed them there if it wasn't for the discolouration that was consistently showing up on one side of the paper.

Printed the final posters at a printing shop near my uni because I wanted them to be good quality. Printed 15 copies of each one (very funny on my part).

I really love these posters. Having my own digital art printed is really sick and I legitimately look at and appreciate my own skills whenever I look at these posters irl. I'm really happy with them and happy that I haven't come to look at them as flawed as I do with a lot of the art I make. I truly became a beast for this artist alley.

Anifest Stamp Rally Poster

October 23 - November 3, 2024 Time: 6:03 IbisPaintX

Poster design I made for Anifest at my uni.

Me and a few of the other vendors joined up to organize a stamp rally, and this was one of the things we prepped for the artist alley beforehand. One of us had suggested different colour palettes, and this orange/teal one won the vote.

This was just a really cute little thing to draw. Was a good break from the other more complicated illustrations I had been working on.

The Miku design and stickers were created by by @/ciel on instagram :3

Spirited Away | Bathhouse, No face

June 2023 - October 30, 2024

~June - July 2023 - Preliminary Sketch in Krita

October 10, 2024 - Transfer to IbisPaint

October 29-30, 2024 - Majority of the illustrating process

Time: 19:58 Krita + IbisPaintX

This has been in the works for a looong time. Making posters out of it for Anifest finally gave me the motivation to work on it. Really surprised I got it done in time, too.

I think it's so magical to be able to go back to a wip like this and actually finish it. Not everything has to stay unfinished and I like collecting my wips in the event like something like this happens. A burst of motivation years later.

Anyways, 3-point perspective (which I have little experience with) of a very complicated building with hard-to-come-by ref pics?!?!! ...Yeah, I like throwing myself into the deep end with new things (see: MIA poster).

The 3-point perspective was so damned hard. Out of the 20 hours I put into this on IbisPaintX (which doesn't include my first struggles with it in Krita), ~6h was for sketching because it was killinggg me. I also went back and forth with IbisPaint and Krita during the sketching phase because it was a REAL struggle.

(Also I downloaded the mp4 video to check the above times (the video was bugged and would freeze at ~1.5h in IbisPaint) and encoding it took over an hour 💀))

I just kept fucking up the perspective. Idek how because I was using the perspective tools but it kept happening (I think I was accidentally shifting them in IbisPaintX so it was ruining me) (also that's one thing that Krita is actually better at. while their process to set up the rulers is much more complicated, you can use them all simultaneously. having to switch btwn them in ibispaint was making me go crazy) especially for the curved roof bits. Those underwent a loooot of revisions.

Rendering it was really fun, spent practically all my time out of lecs to work on this before the deadline to send the poster designs off to get printed.

Actually really proud of myself for this one. I especially like the gold bits

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor, Redesigned

October 26, 2024 Time: 1:25 IbisPaintX

Drawing of the Alastor redesign thing I made here. Really cranked this out like it was nothing ❤️❤️

Continuing with the airbrush supremacy 💪💪, sketching using an airbrush really helps me get general forms right without getting tunnel visioned on specific details

Jujutsu Kaisen | Sukuna

October 9 - 25, 2024 Time: 12:43 IbisPaintX

Poster I whipped up relatively quickly for Anifest.

WWW airbrush I actually love sketching/rendering with the airbrush it's so fire. Also continued my saga of rendering in black and white and then adding colours

Sukuna is my second favourite character from jjk❤️❤️❤️(right behind Nobara🥳💖) (I'm happy on the outside screaming crying on the inside)

If I really wanted to profit off of JJK I would've made a poster of Gojo (or at least that's what was said to me, and it makes sense), but I don't really like Gojo. Idk that's the thing about free will. Quite a few instances of "if I did x it would be more profitable/popular to the general public" crossed my mind, but truly I cannot make art if it's not something that I won't really like. Profit isn't enough to motivate me.

(although it also just feels wrong to make art for that sole purpose -- same feeling of ick as when I realised I was making art for more likes in the past)

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor: Redesign, 2P!, Canon

~October 22, 2024 IbisPaintX

Made a little Alastor redesign/AU that sprouted from the thought of "what if Al actually had a poker face," since canon Al like actually doesn't have one at all. It turned into "Alastor that just doesn't emote with his face/is always expressionless."

Then drew this guy with Canon and @anic-mj 's 2P! Al, since they're both very emotive in very different ways).

I have a really hard time drawing Alastor. I'm finding that I really need to stray from drawing him like viv does for me to not see it as uncanny. I'm ok with this drawing, but it still feels semi-off.

This blog functions as my chronological art archive/diary.

To keep it tidy I do not have asks open nor do I reblog others' posts.

Bug me however you like on @flowerspeakz. There you can also find a lot of my yappery and wips/random doodles of mine that aren't deserving of a formal post here.

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#cyclamen babs

#cyclamen school assignment

#cyclamen trad

#cyclamen canvas

#cyclamen dig

#cyclamen inktober

#cyclamen anim

#cyclamen exhibit **get rid of this one too

#cyclamen costume

#cyclamen stickers

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Hellboy | Hellboy

October 13-14, 2024 Time: 10:10

Redrew the hellboy drawing digitally. Got to clean it up (the white in the background of the og was quite smudged in places) and fix some anatomy issues.

Also, damn, the og drawing is just... a bad drawing lmao 💀 I can't get over how wonky his face is how did I not notice that back then??? 😭

Shoutout to my friend who was like 'why's he so skinny' when I was in the middle of the lineart - idky i always make hb so skinny. Bulked him up after that😈

Planning on printing these to make posters and perhaps sell at my uni's artist alley

Made In Abyss | Riko, Reg, Nanachi, Meinya, Prushka, Turbinid Dragon

October 10, 2024 Time: 22:12 IbisPaintX

⚠️⚠️SPOILERS- Don't look too closely at this illustration if you haven't seen the first season and movie of made in abyss.⚠️⚠️

Made in abyss illustration I made. I mainly worked on this during lectures when they were going over content I already knew ✨

I wanted to take a stab at doing the whole grayscale painting thing before adding colours for once. I think this was a pretty metal way to test that technique out 💀. complicated ass drawing right here

The problem I had with doing the colour layer is that it took a while for me to find something that would look like the right colour. Most colours were fine, but browns were really annoying in particular (they often showed up as bright oranges xd). It also took some finagling to make the shading look good (as in not shaded by pure black), but i got the hang of it. Honestly it was pretty fun using different colours to make the shading look better 😌

I basically painted everything on a single layer (it was divided between foreground (all the characters) and the background sections). yeah, I prolly could have done it in a much more efficient manner, but I had fun so it don't matter.

Really like how it turned out overall (they're so cute but the story is so fucked up it's all so fucked up) and the plan is to make posters out of this bad boy >:)))

Annoying ass watermarks are back because fuck you get away from my hard work!!!

Hazbin Hotel | Husk

September 8, 2024 Time: 6:39

I started this wayyy before (around the alastor one), but I had problems with it for a while so I just left it alone until I practically finished it in one day. Ig something just clicked cos I didn't really change much, other than redo what little progress i'd made on the lineart

Hades | Zagreus

September 7, 2024 Time: 7:08

Redraw of the zagreus sticker I made previously.

I really liked making this one, and I like the way it turned out (actually looks like zag 😱😱😱🗣️). The Hades style is so fun and cool (it in of itself is inspired by mike mignola, among other influences, so ofc I love it).

Used ibispaint's hard japanese brush, which was really nice to use. I like the different line width variation you can get with it.

Hazbin Hotel | Rosie

June 2024

IbisPaintX

The last of the drawings I made to embed in a fic I'm never gonna finish 😔✌️

Also I really don't like this drawing in hindsight. I'm fine with it in the show, but everytime I try to emulate the ultra skinny proportions of hazbin I really don't end up liking it.

I originally had these drawings posted on a secret sideblog so it wouldn't be associated with me, but fuck it we ball.

Coraline | Cocoa Beetle

May 21, 2024 Time: 0:49

(from zanzibar)

Another quick lil guy. Last of my batch of trying to compensate for lost days in the 'make a drawing every day' goal.

Also the last of stickers in general for a while 💔

Hazbin Hotel | Little Demon Minions idk

May 21, 2024 Time: 1:10

Just a quick lil thing. These guys are very shapeful, was fun to draw

Edited on 10/14/2024 to change the background colour (was too dark before)

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor

May 21, 2024

Time: 5:50

Really like how this turned out. I had had the pose floating around in my head for a while, but it took a couple tries for me to put it on paper.

Had to go back in and add his horns cause I completely forgot them the first time 😛

First of a batch I did to try and compensate for the days I didn't make a drawing for

The Amazing Digital Circus | Gangle

May 15 2024 / May 16 2024 Time: 2:57 / 2:38

Really like the contrasting poses for this one, also like how i shaded her ribbons ❤️

This is the last of tadc stuff I did, and also the last of me drawing every day 🥲

The Amazing Digital Circus | Jax

May 14, 2024 Time: 1:42

I can't tell if I like or hate this one. Might play around with different bg colours sometime cause I think that's what's bothering me.

Jax be super lanky so I think i did good at squishing him to be more square.

The Amazing Digital Circus | Pomni

May 14, 2024 Time: 2:42

Ohhhh here I am, milking the Big Indie Show. I quite liked ep 1, but I've been on the fence about 2 and 3, since the 'find an exit' central focus has kind of been dropped. I get that the exit was fake, but I still feel that Pomni should be a lot more annoying (ask questions) about anything and everything regarding how the circus works. It's only at ep 3 (at time of creating this post), so we'll see how I feel about the future eps.

Really like the pose I came up for her here. Very anxious 🌚. That's the thing I've really enjoyed while making the sticker designs, I really want to convey the character's personality with their pose.

Coraline | Coraline Doll

May 13, 2024 Time: 4:15

Simple little drawing

Hollowknight | The Knight

May 12, 2024 Time: 1:05

Just a simple little design for a simple lil guy

April 2024

Krita

Another drawing I did to embed in a fic. Not even gonna tag it with hazbin stuff because it's 99% noncanon shite.

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor

April 2024

Krita

"Alastor landing in hell and seeing himself for the first time" moment I drew.

Made it to uh embed in a fic that I wrote,,,a klalfghg, d, a,,, Ughhghghg dude if anyone I know irl ever reads this it's over for me like forreal🙃🙃🙃🙃

Drew this using krita on my tablet and exporting/saving the .kra file without it becoming mysteriously corrupt was such a struggle. Krita is absolutely horrendous on my tablet.

Omori | Something

May 12, 2024 Time: 0:14

Quick little something stickers I made. I think it'll be funny to mass produce these and put em on everything 💀

No annoying ass watermark for these cos it's simple enough that I don't feel I have the right to be all protective over it

Hazbin Hotel | Lucifer

May 11, 2024

Time: 6:36

Okay so here's me continuing my sticker design escapades. Now the motivation is to eventually sell them at my uni's yearly nerd fest in the artist's alley >:)

This was also the start of me challenging myself to complete one drawing a day for as long as I could since it was summer and I had the time.

Finished this in one day! Whoaa actually hit a goal of the day for once!

You know, I don't really like a lot of the characters' designs (including this guy) from HH, but it grew on me when I was drawing him.

When I first realised that I should make his hat-fire the light source I thought it would go terribly, but I really like how it turned out.

Switched to ibis paint X for drawing--it's wayyy better for drawing on a tablet than krita. I can see why people call it a beginner program since the interface is really easy to use and get a hang of. Krita is great, but it's impossible to use on a tablet/without a keyboard for shortcuts.

I also like Ibis' feature where it records your progress. Really fun to look back on how i drew shite. It also records how long smth takes which is fun to see how embarassingly slow I am.

Arcane | Jinx

One of the many jinx fanarts

I feel like I have problems with her proportions, but I don't know what exactly. I think it's just cause her design is more realistic than the others I made stickers of so I'm not as used to it. I'll have to see it printed out to decide whether or not there's a problem.

Fun drawing her, liked doing the crazy colours/lighting. Also love drawing braids ❤️

Edited (idk what exact date) to make her face rounder (it was really sharp b4)

This is the last of the first batch of ten sticker designs. It was after this (when I was going to place the order) that I realised I only needed one 💀 (er- 2 because I had 2x the deal). My personal favourite was the Hellboy Angel of Death, so I put in that one. Alien Xenomorphs won the popular vote amongst friends, so that was the one used for the second order.

Omori | Omori

I like the vibes of this one. Simple but sufficient

Finished this during a little art cafe event I did with friends.

Hollow Knight | Grimm

God, I love this guy. Can't believe I actually beat nkg.

Would've made it nkg cause cmon it's nkg, but I like normal grimm's colour scheme better.

Top version is the edited/new one (done on 10/14/2024). While the fire isn't nearly as prominent, I like it a lot better than the former version.

Omori | Basil

Hey I think I'm super cool and smart and clever for including all of his (ahem spoilers) black space deaths in the design 💖

Edited on 10/14/2024 to adjust the colours and simplify his back foot. The original one looked a bit washed out so I amped up the colours (I'll still want to see how it looks printed to decide on what I want to do, though)

Hades | Zagreus

Zagreus sticker design. I drew it using the same style as all the other stickers, but I kind of regretted that, purely because the face doesn't look like zag. I eventually redrew it in the Hades style. You'll see it eventually ;)