Ozine Anime Figure Special December 2012

Despite being super sick for 2-3 days, & almost thinking I'd be going to the hospital & cancel my art booth, God sent me a miracle. I was sick and had been absent in the office already...but tried my best layouting the stuff my lil sis and I had prepared.
I couldn't draw anything nice *cries* my scoliosis was so intense my back just hurt as hell. I was vomiting already and my fever was high that my parents were asking if I will cancel the event.

Luckily, I was able to make some layouts even my adobe CS3 had crashed recently (T_T) I used photoscape instead.

I had arranged ramlyngrace & MaikohSakura

to be my sub-artists for Day 1 of the event since me and sis could not come. Good thing they were up for it and I'm glad they did well :) I had this feeling they deserve a chance to have commissions, and yep was I right :) They gave us cute artworks~ Too bad I didn't get to meet MaikohSakura personally huhuhu, but I'm glad we had coordinated this properly using only DA, FB and text messages waaaaah 

here are the lovely works Ramlyn Grace gave me

from MaikohSakura

We went during Day 2 We were late already arriving at 1PM

I was still sick, but decided to go and do it XD...though I was coughing and sneezing the whole time I continued to work.

I didn't get to enjoy the other artbooths (T_T) my sis did not want to be left there alone..next time I guess I need to help my sis to have great PR skills :)

...there were so many people & we really had good sales..to the point that I ate my lunch at 4pm and had to convince AkaReikou to do commissions! (T_T) took me like 2 hours just trying waaah and on the last commish, she ran away from the booth, saying she doesn't wanna do art commissions..grr...We had our little chibis sold-out and the calendars..here are some from sis

Here are my 2 K Project fan arts 

I sat beside ruihanasawa who was doing artwork commissions non-stop, not even eating :XD: 
Again there were weird people in the booth (T_T)
There was this one weird guy who kept asking survey questions! One last thing I told him to send him away was  "no comment no media, thank you" ...and then another weird guy who posed with a peace sign asking if we could draw him *facepalm* and some lost cosplayers asking me if I know where is the cosplayer's registration *sigh*
(*will update the story next time)
I am happy with the event waaah Here's a pic of us altogether before the event ended*more pics to follow* 
audiiyan, phillydelphy, Akareikou, and me :) (lil sis requested I hide her face waaahahaha)

so many friends came to see me at the booth, and even an old close highschool friend who I didn't see for seven years.
thank you so much for everyone who prayed I get well, to my only lil sis Akareikou for putting up with my rigid training at the booth, and doing all the cute artworks for the event!

Special Thanks to:
audiiyan for always being there w/ everything, from reserving the booth to assisting my sub artists, aww.
phillydelphy, who saved our spot & gave us merienda & freebies, Soramio even gave me medicine, sky00reed who I finally met & even brought me a box of brownies, eyesberg for visiting, ruihanasawa for giving me water so i could drink my medicine, nanoji who helped us pack up the stuff, to Kuya Bryan of Ozine for helping me with the artbooth reservations,to my ever supportive & loving AR family Danilo , Chisato ,Shi Jet, Vladimir , Vandeer & the other members..and again sad to say, I missed a commission from enjelia and rabbit-edge waaah next time again, and
I'm glad to see them again
(to be updated soon)
Happy New year Everyone!

+The Admin Artist+: Grand Pop Culture Fair October 2012- Indie Art boo...

+The Admin Artist+: Grand Pop Culture Fair October 2012- Indie Art boo...:    Was at Megatrade hall 3 last 13-14October 2012 for the Indie Artist booth during the Grand Pop Culture Fair~ with :devau-di: during t...

Grand Pop Culture Fair October 2012- Indie Art booth with sis

   Was at Megatrade hall 3 last 13-14October 2012 for the Indie Artist booth during the Grand Pop Culture Fair~ with :devau-di: during the two days :) Awwww this is
the first time I'll be doing an artbooth for a J-pop and K-pop event!

Grand pop culture fair banner

 DAY 1 OCT.13, 2012--JPOP PERFORMERS, JPOP & KPOP SINGERS
We came early today, me and my artist friend audi and we were the first ones in the indie artist section~ Hmmm
the art booths are shaped in a square format this time, and we chose the area in front of the stage

This is the view from my seat~ ahem perfect for watching the performers later on :)

After we had set up our good~ my friend cocojam surprised us!
 hahaha I didn't know she was coming to the event! :XD: she took this pic for us.
 

Too bad she needs to come home early awwww  our goods are disarranged  ehehe

Day 2 Cosplaymania 30 September 2012

Awwwww hectic days and then you suddenly just need to pause for a while
for some of the fave things you love to do--- go to anime cons, dress up a bit and
be happy much!
 Went to Cosplaymania 2012 at SMX Convention Center at Mall of Asia Pasay City last 30Sept. 2012
with my sis Tine and my friends Audi and Jam and my other ani-friends Rei and Company
Here's some pics. :XD: Sorry, I didn't put the much pics *coming up soon*

Me in Kimono. Yep, I was finally able to wear my Crimson Kimono and hair extensions~
Waaaah I loved that Japan Booth much, thanks to the lady who told me its okay

to take a pic inside :)

with kat one of our office staff whom I bumped in the con. She was so surprised seeing me, a staff from HR & Admin Dept. going in cons, since I seem to be so serious...I was surprised too~.

with random woman wearing a Kimono...whom should I have done that white make up as well?

Me and sis Tine with Len Cosplayer

Awwww some of my artist friends in CURIOworks girls, despite being tired from walking, we are all just happy to see each other.

And we had this dramatic shot by Kyon/Dan of AR *edited by me XD*

Some cosplayers during cosplaymania

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Anime Restaurant (AR), our little family of anime lovers and congoers.


 


Every year since 2010, A.R. always celebrated the group's anniversary at Cosplaymania...and I always hoped we could one day be complete waaah. I missed these people much since some of them lived from far places and we see each other only once a year...and every year we always had so much fun just laughing and picture taking. Funny it may seem, despite our hectic scheds, and other stuff we had always found ways to come to cons for our reunion. I hope even in the years to come, our little group will stay strong and be together, and still celebrate anniversaries. I miss Aya, one of my oldest anime loving friends, the girl whom invited me to AR..I wish she was here with us during the event :( Thank you for introducing me to one lovely group who loved and supported me like family during our team's art booths and other cons.

One day we will all meet again :)

*Will still update this, waaaah my Bday is near :XD:*

Credits: Photos courtesy of Dan Maquirang, Rei Kirihara and Chisato Oguri
 

How I draw in Trad & My Coloring Materials in the Philippines

MY TRADITIONAL COLORING MATERIALS
Pardon the blurry cellphone pics! What did  I use on most  of  my trad  artworks? Yes its the ones you'll  be  seeing down there~

Very  old  coloring materials--salvaged from my highschool and college days

The pens we  use in drawing which I now borrow from my sister :XD:

The poster paints me and my sister Tine share

The Derwent watercolor pencil which I bought for solo-one-peice yay!

HOW I DRAW MY TRAD ARTWORKS

So some had  asked me how  I do my traditional artworks. I'm not a pro artist, I'm self-taught after failing to go to art school due to many financial constraints and other twist of events and I am lazy!*lol* But since I have  my premium sub now   I wanna share how  I do  my Trad works. Pardon the blurry pics  from my cellphone. One day I'll finally get a nice cam to  work on.   Note this is not a tutorial, but rather a peek from someone who just draws on her own way~

First for me usually is the sketch-- just a doodle over there and here using my mechanical   pencil.   Here's my sketch on my contest  entry  on my character  Fiamma   Urie (means "Fire" in latin)

--pencil  sketch on  Elite Vellum board, My Original character Fiamma Urie-

Then  ink the pencil lines using unipen (if I'll be using water colors/poster  paints since unipen is waterproof)  or gtech/dong-ah gel  pens (if I'll  use color pencils)in this artwork I used the dong-ah gel  pen

--fiamma  urie  line art--

The third part for me usually is the coloring process (which I enjoy doing the most) wherein I will color to my hearts content  :) I used Faber Castell color pencils and other coloring tools like some old color pens, Reeves and Best buy poster paints (borrowed from  little sister :devMaiden-Azaleya: *Laiden is now poor with coloring materials hahha)

--halfcolored  fiama  urie-

Then after  coloring, scanning process  (sometimes good artist friends who gave me  free scans sometimes  thru the small  PC shop   where  I'll have to  pay..I really need to have  my own scanner :XD:) and some editing in Adobe  Photoshop CS3 for  the BG  and adjustments..and voila, here's the finished product~

Well that's  how it goes   for me   in Trad Artworks~ I haven't  learned Paint tool Sai and other stuff in digi art so there~

After you make your artworks, if you want something out of it (yep,  points   or money anyone)  its  either you'll take on Art Commissions, Trades or contests   (I did the contests  and I rarely draw commissions hhahaha) And  if  you  are lucky   enough  to  have artist friends who'll be committed to draw  give time,effort, and money why not set up an art  booth in an event and sell your artworks? :) Here's our little art booth during the Ozine 2012
I went with artist friends from our little art team named CURIOworks

 Zoom  in Curio art booth~  We made  keychains and other stuff that we sold   during the event~

Selling on an art booth  was a fun experience too, but at the same time you'll  not  only use your art skills  here, you  gotta learn  some  have good people relations skills and long patience  (I tell  you there are really weird customers at times)  as much as possible  not only for the customers  but also  for your co-artists (if you  are  sharing the booth as a group)~*clashing personalities *cough*

But in the end though we didn't get the "sold out" label, I was just happy to have tried an artbooth~
I never made commission on the artbooths but I am glad to see people smiling and happy to see our
works, some even careful on keeping the items they had bought~

I am a Commerce graduate and weirdly enough, I still didn't think of profit with the art booths.
I think I did art booths for the love of it :)

Hoping to finally have more lovely time with the art booths :)