Very quick entry for today's BEDA, as I'm off out to pick up Moose from the station. I haven't seen the guy in six weeks so I'm going to be a little preoccupied later!
This is a cute outfit I whipped up the other day! Primark has a huge range of Marvel stuff in at the moment, so I snapped up these amazing tights. I'm going to wear them tomorrow to see Captain America for Luke's birthday! I think they go great with these clear jelly boots. This is a perfect 'dorky day' outfit, I think!
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So, I'm primarily a digital artist, but sometimes I just want to break out the watercolours and markers and go crazy with real media. The lack of 'undo' is constantly terrifying, but the satisfaction of having an original piece of art absolutely makes up for all the stress! Finding a reason to draw something in real media is often difficult, though - I'm usually too busy at conventions to offer commissions at the con, and any commissions I take online tend to be digital.
And then I discovered Art Cards! There are two sorts very popular with artists at the moment, and both are hitting the convention scene with great success. ACEO (Art Cards Editions and Originals) are tiny 2.5" x 3" trading card sized pieces of art. I first discovered them after seeing the lovely Anastasia's table at Exeter Comic Con last year. She had a binder with pages and pages of wonderful cards, themed after her favourite games and movies and shows. She showed me the ropes and I love the challenge of drawing on such a tiny canvas. A lot of artists, especially fanartists, are also turning to larger A6 'sketch cards' or 'marker cards'. I think the fabulous Karen Hallion probably had something to do with that! I decided to give it a go myself, as an excuse to keep the real media flowing between digital work! I'm also using it as an excuse to draw lots of things I love but just haven't found time to draw yet! Expect a lot of Disney, I'm sure. :) Here's my very first batch of A6 marker cards! Twilight and Stitch sold already but the other three can be found over on my Etsy! I'm hoping to have a huge batch available before the convention rush in May. They're kind of totally addictive! Tags:
I love selling art at conventions, but I'm constantly jealous of all the wonderful crafters out there who can make nerdy jewellery and clothing for others to enjoy. I've wanted to start creating charms and jewellery for ages, but honestly, I'm really not all that crafty at all! I can't sew to save my life, so even the few cosplays I've created tend to just be very basic adaptations of regular clothing or store bought outfits. I've dabbled in Fimo and Sculpey, but never stuck with it all that much, despite making a cute little Poro recently for Valentines Day. Still, I found some clear cabachons in a local craft store and thought I'd finally give it a go! I ordered a ton of findings, chains and glue after researching a whole day on what best to use and how. Today, the postman came to the door with a sack full of goodies for me, so I finally set to work! This was the result! Ta-da!
I used my own designs for the Personality Cores from Portal 2, and my first attempt was Wheatley. It's certainly a case of trial and error! Wheatley looks pretty good in this picture, but I think I applied too much glue, because there are little trapped air bubbles beneath the cabachon that sadly I couldn't remove for all the squeezing in the world. Next up was the Space Core, and I'm pretty happy with how he came out. There's one tiny air bubble in the middle but it's only noticable at a certain angle. Last up was Rainbow Dash's cutie mark, where I only applied the tiniest amount of glue. I was actually worried it wasn't going to work because the glue didn't seem to spread around enough, but I gave it a huge squish and stuck it under a book and voila - this one came out perfect! So I think maybe I've conquered the air bubble monster! If all goes well, I can finally expand my convention stall to including a few more things like this! It'll be nice having a little more variety on the table. Speaking of conventions, my next con is DevCon in Plymouth on May 4th. What a great way to spend Star Wars Day! ;) Tags:
I thought I'd give BEDA (Blog Every Day in April!) a go this year, first year I won't be hosting it directly on Livejournal, though of course I'll crosspost. LJ was my online home for over a decade, not going to ditch it entirely anytime soon!
April is a pretty relaxed month of convention prep for me. My entire 'convention season' seems to fall in May (three cons, one month, Fox only, Final Destination), so I usually try to spend April making art, printing art and packing art! Of course, I am the queen of procrastination, so I usually don't do any of this until a week before a convention, and the end result is a lot of stressful all-nighters. But in theory I use April to calmly catch up on everything. This year, my Brother printer forced me to rethink my usual plan of procrastination. It packed in last week, with a problem my previous Brother printer had, so I figured I'd finally blow the budget on a decent printer built for my (thankfully growing) needs. My new Epson R2000 is professional, fast and, so far, perfect. With it, I ordered paper, spare inks and a plethora of jewellery findings and goodies for my convention tables and Etsy store. I've ordered bags and card for prints, business cards and a new card display stand for a range of A6 'postcard' prints I'll be selling... gotta say, I feel totally on the ball! Oh, yes! Speaking of Etsy - I have an Etsy! I looked into Etsy a million years ago, but was put off by the listing fee and the fact they take a percentage of what you sell. I wrote it off for years, until I decided I'd finally give it a go last month. It's been awesome! I've become addicted to checking the dashboard for stats on my shop, because it lists people's search results and I seem to attract a lot of people searching for 'Booker DeWitt', which would be great if I had more than one (crossover parody!) Bioshock print for sale! Tags:
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Hi! I'm Selena an artist, blogger and gamer!
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