| Hell yeah it's ACEN time! |
[May. 8th, 2008|09:57 pm] |
Woo hoo! I'm going to ACen!
I'm selling HP and MP potions, Okami rocks, chibi paintings on tiny canvases, origami, TPCTH books and commissions.
I'm hoping to meet some great artists and add some local art to my collection. Mostly self-published comics I'm thinking.
This summer's going to be crazy.
I'm finishing off my studio art classes. 12 credits of just drawing. Prof wants me to publish two books by the end of summer. I want them to be Demon Eater and TPCTH volumes 2. I'm short 100 pages for them both. I have enough pages already for making the books but... I want TPCTH to be a 200 page book due to it's manga format(it takes many pages to get the plot moving anywhere). I want the 2nd book of DE to be the complete 2nd story arc so that the story can be partly self contained.
I've finally started a donation initiative at my Demon Eater site. $16= extra page. So far looks like I'm only updating Fridays for Demon Eater this summer.
I'll take advantage of that by working more on The Planet Closest to Heaven. That comic really needs more pages. |
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| They really did decide to wait until the very end. |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|04:00 pm] |
I have received a notification that Comixpress has printed my order and it's on it's way. It said the books should be here by the 28th.
I'm happy that it worked out.
Next time I should set a specific date in a couple months I need the order by vs a few months on an open date.
Now I hope all 50 books will come in good quality. |
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| Got a car. |
[Mar. 19th, 2008|05:09 pm] |
GM Century 2001 |
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| My poor car is gone now. |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|11:08 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | car | ] |
| [ | mood |
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My Oldsmoble Achiva broke down for good Friday. It lasted pretty long. I had it since 10th grade in high school. Like seven years I think...
I'm going to get a new-er used car soon. Thank goodness my brother is here for spring break I'm using his car and week of 21-30th is my spring break. So I got two weeks to buy a car. |
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| Last post until end of March about ComiXpress |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|10:41 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | comixpress | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  trying to have faith | ] |
As of yet, I still haven't heard anything from them about my order.
I know that they should have received the emails from Vice and I. Phone and fax seems to be worthless because their fax doesn't work, they have no answering machine, and they never answer the phone.
When I placed the order I must have said I needed it by end of March vs. just March. That's my only reason to why they are taking their sweet time and have never responded to any of the emails. I did enough calling and worrying. I'm going to just let it go and wait until April first. I'll try to have some faith that it will all go through.
If I don't hear anything from them or receive the order, I'll give a warning email on the 2nd(asking for an explanation by the 7th.)and if I get nothing still then on the 7th I'll contact the BBB and proceed to post on all webcomic forums I am a part of and tell how I got ripped off by ComiXpress. |
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| the list of stuff i gotta do |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|06:38 pm] |
Art stuff I gotta do for AD:
-Make LOTS of complicated origami. As much as I can to sell.
-Print off artist business cards
-Make PlanetCTH pass out cards for con/s
-Make signs for table
-Order canvases? |
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| New internship has been going great. |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|06:24 pm] |
Supporting teacher is very nice. She's not as stressed, perfectionist and a workaholic as my last supporting teacher.
Anime Detour is coming. I still haven't heard from ComiXpress yet. I really really hope I get those books in time. I can't afford to buy from Lulu.
I've been eyeing the mini canvases in the spring sale art catalog. Man, I wanna buy them. I'm not even that great of an acrylics painter but I still think it would be hella fun to do painting commissions. |
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| new school for intership |
[Mar. 8th, 2008|12:24 pm] |
I get to go to an Elementary in Apple Valley. Kinda far. No extra days. I gotta be there at 8:00am Monday. |
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| Comixpress has been the suck |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|10:17 pm] |
Okay so I reorder my books for cons this year, in December. I gave a due date all the way to March thinking: oh if they have plenty of time, they will do a good job and get the books to me long before then!
It's March now. There's this creator portal thing that says they have my money but my print is "pending". Man it's been "pending" since late December! They had my money for a long time. I made many calls with no answer. I sent an email last month and today I get no reply.
They could have at least told me that they were going to wait until the last minute to do anything. I'm ticked off because on the site it says reorders usually take two weeks.
quote from the FAQ:
"Once payment is received your books will be printed and ready to ship within 2 weeks."
What's the deal?!
I can't technically make any official BBB complaints until the the due date is over (March), but having no response with the service is crappy. |
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[Jan. 21st, 2008|12:15 pm] |
I found a cool discovery today. Comixpress prints color for much less than I thought. I might actually afford to print Demon Eater through them making it possible to sell DE at $20.
If only I can do that before Anime Detour or ACen...
Student Teaching is killer. It's impossible to do anything other than homework on a weekday. It's going to have to be a next weekend project. |
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| Pretty bored |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|02:05 pm] |
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I got two weeks left. Then I'm gone from the dorms forever. When I come back for final summer classes I'm going to try to room with some friends I know. They might have kitties.
Where am I going to go next when I'm done with school? I don't know. |
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| Almost end of year entry |
[Nov. 20th, 2007|08:21 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | life | ] |
| [ | mood |
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Lots of exciting stuff happening.
-It's Thanksgiving time. I get to go home and finally relax a bit.
-Finished my huge art history writing assignment last weekend.
-Running behind on drawing comics this week. Probably make a filler for Friday tonight and slowly work on the page this weekend.
-After finals going to Miami, Florida! Not for crappy theme parks just the BEACH! I've been waiting all year for this. I may even get to visit the Everglades. XD
-Next week going to visit my teachers I will be taking student-teaching with next semester. The heads want me to sign some contract with them before the end of the semester. Worried about the Elementary teacher. Email doesn't work and I'm getting no response from calling. So my adviser says just stop in the school and visit her. So I will try that the 26th.
-After New Years might visit a few Minneapolis/St. Paul webcomic people. Sounds exciting. |
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| art talk. Artist statement drafts |
[Oct. 16th, 2007|09:05 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blank | ] |
Everything at school is due November 1st. Sorry home-friends if I can't see ya until after then.
I gotta rewrite my artist statement for Senior Show. Basically because I don't like the old version...
If I theme it around comics...
Creating comics are like being the writer, actor, director, and editor of a movie all in one person. I write the story, the characters, the conflicts... I act out scenes in front of mirrors to draw the emotions of the characters. I direct the angles where I want every scene and character to be placed in each panel. And lastly I edit and manipulate the scenes to emphasize and hide what the audience sees. It becomes a very involving experience. That’s why I like to make comics and will continue to create them. |
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| social talk |
[Oct. 16th, 2007|08:48 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | social | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | dorm | ] |
| [ | mood |
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For the social stuff, I go to anime club still when I don't have too much homework. It's better this year. The president and vice seem to actually care about what's going on which is good. The new people are fun. Some of the old members whom have/had a click around them don't come as much so it's easier to enjoy anime for the sake of enjoying anime.
I don't see much of my old roommate as much. She hasn't come to one anime meeting and I haven't once visited her or her friends. Kinda a bummer.
I think since this is my last real semester at school, I just don't seem to care anymore about maintaining a social life with everyone.
I have been hanging out with Holly more. She had a few friends graduate last year so she seems to like my company. I think I do better with one-on-one friendships than with groups. |
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| fall con and other things |
[Oct. 16th, 2007|08:39 pm] |
Cool things at Fall Con:
-Got in free as a creator :D
-Got free food
-Hanged out with comic people
Didn't make any money due to spending a lot of money hahaha!
But it's always like that at every convention!
It was different from an anime con in that:
-mostly a dealer's room
-less cosplayers-(the few ones are super heroes, scifi, or goth)
-lots more older men
-Felt like a garage sale in that there was a lot of old collectible toys there.
-American food and candy only
-Oh and you don't make as much sales
I was much more happier at this one than Anime Iowa was so it was all good.
Upcoming events:
-Senior show Nov. 13th
-Clinical start Nov 1st
-Florida vacation after finals in Dec.
Next con is Anime Detour! |
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| Fall Con table....not gonna happen. |
[Sep. 9th, 2007|06:56 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | con | ] |
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Fall Con table....not gonna happen. Yeah. No replies to emails. No phone contact on website. Already close to mid-Sept. Not a lucky break.
EDIT: nah I did manage to get a table ha! |
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| cool beans and other cool things |
[Aug. 21st, 2007|10:24 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
-Computer fixed.
-Almost ready for school. MIGHT get Fridays off. Keeping my fingers crossed. Probably would just have my teaching clinicals that day if anything.
-Registered for Kakkoi con ten minutes ago on an impulse buy. XD (It had a good deal! 2 passes and an art table reduced price in a Minneapolis con! I couldn't help it!)
-Sold three books to the Source. Totally shocked on that one. The clerks were really impressed at the size of the books. They want me to try to be a indy comic guest at Fall Con.
-Nothing yet for Fall Con. Failed first email maybe try again.
-Planet Closest to Heaven is getting exciting again.
-Brainstorming cover art for possible short PlanetCTH chapter comic/s.
-In a rut with current pages for Demon Eater, but really doing well with the DE script writing. The second story arc is almost done.
-Going to try again with Demon Eater book creation with added stuff and somekind of content warning page. |
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| post AI con report |
[Aug. 14th, 2007|12:21 am] |
Anime Iowa wasn't as super exciting as Anime Detour was. I guess there wasn't as many people that I knew there to hang out with. I didn't get much of a chance to talk to people like I did at AD. Best success on sales and promotion there though.
I sold quite a bit of stuff, but spent quite alot too. I kinda did and kinda did not break even. I made enough to pay for the travel expensives and a few dealers items, but not enough to break even with the book costs. I should have spent less there.
I sold 5 books. (One of them was a comic trade.) I did not make enough money to buy replacements for the books that I sold. The rest of the materials for the other stuff I sold were things I got for free or was laying around the house.
I was very surprised at how many other comic/webcomic artists were there with printed books of their work. I think the magority of the people that bought Vicemage and my books were other comic/webcomic creators. I hope they approve. ^/////^;;;
I think I did well promoting the websites. The spell tags were a hit. People really liked them even though I truly had no idea how they were really used or what the symbols really meant. (Got them from a How to draw Occult and Horror book) I have high hopes for the contest. I'm hoping for quite a few last min entries for my comic.
Matt was there, but didn't really get to hang out. Didn't see the other two girls that we traveled to AI with last year.
Cosplayed but nothing impressive.
All in all the con felt like I was there yet I wasn't. Wasn't the best con and wasn't the worst.
Oh yeah. I found the YYH t-shirt at home. I must have forgot it. ^^ |
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| The ultimate manga viewing site is.... |
[Jul. 5th, 2007|04:33 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | dorm | ] |
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www.onemanga.com XD
Still working hard.
My two weeks of hard work for art teaching is coming up in about a week. I have to get my preparations for Anime Iowa underway before then. I made a business card today. I made it a an all-in-one card having links to all my main sites (only about 5).
I'm having a bit of bad luck finding a decent tablebackground. I'm consitering just looking for some 5 foot tall foldy cardboard and covering it up with somekind of pinny blanket ,but I don't know if Vice would be happy with that so better ask in advance if she found something better... ^^;;;
With the teaching coming up I don't think I'll make it to Demon Eater publishing by Anime Iowa... ;_; Yeah Yeah...everything in life always gets delayed. |
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| printmaking mission statement |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|09:55 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | school | ] |
| [ | mood |
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Here's a list of projects I want to explore and acomplish in 270 summer printmaking class.
Project 1 Twisted Flesh.
I've seen transformation and healing sequances usally depicted through a flash of light. I think they leave out the core elements of what a transformation is which is what inside the body changes. Muscles and organs are usally seen as something dreadful to look at. Painful.
I want to make a transformation of tissue beutiful. I want to draw the changes of muscles in a way that is like ribbons bursting into the wind... something that would bring awe to the viewer.
I'm planning on this being a drawing or etching. I want it to be much more detailed than my previous attempts. Something more abstract without a figure would be perferable.
Project 2 and/or 3 Contunuation of collage colligraphs
I really loved how the wing project worked out in spring semester's printmaking.
The wing print was a colligraph created with many cut out papers collaged in a pattern on to the board. The papers were glued on by overlapping giving the image an animal scales or wing like appearance.
I want to contunue it making several prints, yet due to time restrains I might have to only make two or three.
Subject matter might be absract wing patterns, scales, pinecones, rose flowers and sun rays.
For sure I want to make something like pinecones. They have a scale like overlapping that looks visually interesting. I think covering an entire colligraph with cut outs that look pinecones would be fun.
There's going to be an art show at the AI convention first weekend of August. I might want to make a few smaller prints for it. People perfer fantasy subject works so I might add some figures to some of the patterns... maybe some wing patterns. |
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