What a great first year convention omg!! AFC was such a fun con even though I was working most of it, everyone was so nice and I had some great chats with folks about art or Rain World or Monhun, and I had just enough time to enjoy the evenings at the con, a rare thing for vending lol. I'll definitely be trying to vend there again next year, the only major snags were with the venue and staff got stuff cleared up lightning fast when something did happen. Great area though with plenty to walk to from the hotels, good food in the con space which is important since outside wasn't allowed, and omg the way it was all setup was just so good! The night market featuring music on the other side of the room from vendors made it perfect for browsing without my ears getting too blown out to talk with vendors, the open middle area for hanging out and watching the shibari panel on Saturday night was sooo chill. Just a very solid setup overall.

This con was the first time I've ever put art into the art show at a convention too, and I'm so honored that all four pieces sold! I definitely want to make some more paintings that are less last minute next time. For FC I'm also considering making another monhun needle felt for the show, either a Zinogre or maybe one of the new guys from Wilds.

I'm still VERY tired from the whole ordeal, driving the 5 hours there and back felt fine during the event itself but it sure all hit me at once when I got home. I'm so glad I took it in chunks and I'm v glad for  mongrelist and  hiimshibby for letting me crash with them so I wasn't doing 8 hour drives there and back lmao. This week I'm catching up on my missed homework from the week before the con and doing this week's homework for college, and organizing commissions taken at the con and the week before. Next week I'll be back to work in earnest wrapping up some older works and starting sketches for the new stuff the week after hopefully!

I'll also be uploading the sketchbook for both August and September today, last month was just too insane for me to put together the August one and I missed posting at all from how busy I got. Definitely want to avoid that going forward and if I know I'll have a busy month or the prior month's sketchbook is looking too thin I'll put a pause on memberships for everyone. I've been in a big catchup rut with it this year that I'm still digging out of, trying to dedicate a day a week to get a few of the wyvern tier sketches out to everyone and I'm very thankful for people's patience with me while this year has repeatedly beat the hell out of me lmao.

Due to the additional con queue and prior queue, I'll probably be opening next in mid November and just trying my hardest to grind out the work this month. As for where I'll be vending next, I'm hoping for a spot at the FC Artist Alley, as that will be my next con regardless of vending. Fingers crossed for LVFC dealers as well!!