(OMG CLEAN JOURNAL WHHAAHHH?? hehe.)


Besides the lack of sleep, food and water that is. Hehe, but those are mainly my fault. I'm a chatterer and refused to sleep once me and my buds got in conversation. And the food and water thing was just stupidity on my part. One would think a seasoned con-goer like me would know better. Nope. Always, always I get caught up in my art.

I think I broke a personal record on artwork done at any con. I seriously think at least 100 people walked out of that hotel with one of my $2 badges. I had people lining up at my table for these, I finished them in under 5 minutes, and they walked off happily (some with badge holders for an extra buck, until I ran out). And if I left my table, my neighbors told me lots of people kept looking for me. It was a trip, man, a trip! And you've NO idea just how many foxes are in this fandom until you draw them all.

But I think if I do this again, I'll probably bump the price up a dollar. I realize with all the marker ink I'm spending on these, I'll be needing to purchase some new Copics (my poor blues and greys suffered the worst). And I love handing out badge holders and clips, but those are pricey too. I hope though people still enjoy them even at $3, however much work came my way, I was always happy and excited to do another badge. It was like a massive art-a-thon and the challenge was "make it unique". No worrying about cutting paper, not worrying over much on tightly controlled pen lines, it was just a swish of my copics and I was having some real fun. I do hope the badges I handed back reflected that. I love my more detailed badges just as much, but there's something to be said for spontaneous portraits done in only a minute. Much like taking a life drawing class and finding your 30 second exercises look more interesting (to me anyway) than the one you spent half an hour on.

Thanks Gideon for letting me capitalize on your genius idea (albeit with doubling the price). You're very gracious and my friend Nyxxie had a wonderful time sitting next to you.

Also thank you to that one girl who allowed me to hug her beautiful Cardigan Welsh Corgi, making me feel better about the passing of my own corgi a few months ago.

And, of course, thanks all my friends. You're so patient with me. I only wish the con lasted longer so we could've all gone skipping down the hallways together. And that room was AWESOME! Many apartments aren't even so nice as that! We lucked out and got a mega-sized room in a well-insulted corner so our massive party of 10 (or so) was comfy and had plenty of room.

And also, thank you random animal education group, whereever you are. Thanks for showing off your gorgeous kinkajou, fennec, owl, hawk, tortoise, gator, that one awesome Amazon parrot, and of course the EPIC LYNX and letting all of us unclean folk admire and even touch these wonderful creatures. I'll forever remember Juno the lynx kitten fondly.

Hope everyone has as awesome a time as I did! And if you didn't, it should be better next year. WOOT EPIC NEW HOTEL WOOOOTTTT!!!