So hey, do any of my followers have any experience running an Artist Alley booth at a con?

I was playing with the idea of doing this one day maybe kinda sorta possibly, but I’ve never really done anything like it before?  (Except that one time I helped Dad with his booth at a food show, but that was food.  This is, uh, not food.)  So I have no idea what I’m doing or what to expect, really, if it comes to that.

Also, just want to make it clear that this is NOT me coming out and saying I’m gonna do an artist alley, just me digging for advice should I ever decide that I would like to for sure. : )

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So I started drawing eyes a certain way for the Ice King Finn stuff

and then decided to use a far more rounded, variable version in my normal drawings

and now I just drew AT fanart in my regular style and used those eyes on Simon.

Truly, we have come full circle.

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It has…become increasingly apparent that I really don’t like my own art style.

So I’m trying to maybe integrate some actual, expressive eyes or something - after all, SaB’s style first came out of me forcing myself to do something different from what I usually drew, so this is basically the same thing, though not to quite the same extreme.  And, when I integrated my old, more traditional anime-esque style in to SaB’s style, the body builds became more robust, but the style of heads and necks didn’t change, and I feel like they clashed a bit?  So this is kind of like the the natural progression of things from there, I guess…or at least from drawing IKF all the damn time and really liking how expressive he is.  I dunno, I’m having trouble getting all of this in to words.

Either way, I’m messing around with expressive eyes with…mixed results?  Sometimes it looks way better than others.  But I guess it’s all a matter of practice.  (The particular type of eyes I’m drawing actually integrate with the style pretty well, though I’m having trouble drawing them consistently.  Though, in retrospect and completely accidentally, they also look very similar to the eye style I’ve seen a lot lately, and I don’t want to come off as derivative but I do really like these kinds of eyes…ugh, again, I feel like I’m having a lot of issues expressing this all of a sudden.)

Either way, any thoughts?

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I also feel the strange urge to work on my original stuff all of a sudden.  Call it a sympathetic longing.

Why is it 2 am

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THE ESSAYS ARE DONE

I AM FREE

Well I still have my usual Style in Fiction homework but I digress.

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Wow, it’s 6:30 am and I’m pretty sure my essay is objectively terrible.

But it’s done.  …Yay.

Let’s see if I can get a few hours of sleep.

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I have no idea what I’m doing with this essay, wow.

But it’s due tomorrow…well, later today, now.  Time for an all-nighter, I guess.

On a completely unrelated note I’m really surprised there’s no teaser for Simon and Marcy yet.  If I was Cartoon Network, I’d be advertizing the hell out of the episode.

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So I take a break from being essay to briefly check on tumblr, feeling gross from all manner of stress-related ickyness (which happens to me a lot, actually, and it totally sucks), and then I load my dash and APOLLO’S BACK?

YES.  GOOD.  ALRIGHT.  I AM EXTREMELY OKAY WITH THIS.

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Hey, everybody!  Just wanted to let all of my followers and such know that I’m sorry I’ve been so inactive as of late.  Unfortunately, this is gonna be how things are for the next week-and-a-half to two weeks or so, until my spring break starts - I’m basically trapped in an essay conga line right now.

As far as the ask Ice King Finn blog goes, I am working on the next drawing fill, but it’s a big one and since I’m so busy it’s taking a really long time?  But I am actively working on it, albeit extremely sporadically, if nothing else : )

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Wow I wish my semester wasn’t so crazily busy ;___;  There’s so much stuff I want to work on, and frankly a lot of the work I’ve been getting in my classes feels like pointless (or at least nearly-pointless) busywork. : U

I swear I’ve been working on this plushie and its pattern literally since winter break and I’m cutting fabric right now for the first time in a while.  I forgot how relatively relaxing it is~  Well, relaxing especially in comparison to the two tests I had this week.

And tomorrow I have a required museum trip with my class in the city…which I have to commute to and from on my own.  And pay for on my own.  And that I only found out about around a week ago.  I really like museums, but I’m not so fond of the forced-on-short-notice-to-go-to-them thing.

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