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Ikkicon Report!
12 years ago
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Back from holiday travels ^_^ I have spent the past couple of days apologizing to my cats for leaving them with (in their opinion) the worst babysitter of all time!! Now they love me again and I can get some work done ^_^
Ikkicon!
This year I ran the Art Show with Alfred from Prismatic Llama. Our room was right next to the escalators so we actually had quite a bit of walk in traffic, including a fair number of normal people from outside the convention. It was a very good show with a lively group of bidders. 3 of our mail-in artists got pretty checks in an envelope because we had no art to mail back to them ^_^ I had 2 noshow winning bidders (fist shake) but still ended up with strong sales. Any con where I walk away with more than the total value of my buy it now prices is a good one!
Not surprising, the hardest pictures to sell to this crowd were large originals. Anime conventions in general have a younger audience that have to borrow someone else's disposable income, so large ticket items are less likely to move. Small prints and chibis were also slow to sell at Ikkicon. People went for the 11 by 14 matted prints, Stephanie Kao's medium-sized canvas prints, and Julia Lichty's poster-sized 18 by 24 prints.
Prismatic Llama is all perler bead art, which also went over well. I had a lot of fun playing with Alfred's supplies ^_^ I'd trade off making something for him from his pattern index for every random thing I made myself. He gave me a bunch of bead boards. ... and then I came home and bought a bunch of perler stuff for myself. I think this is my new project for when I need to not stare at the computer screen for an hour or two and don't want to set up my painting workstation.
I also got to have a couple of people treat moments (those times when talking to people made me feel really good). Both of my parents came to embarrass me, since this was a con in their home town. Dad had never seen any of my conventions, and I think this was a the first time he realized that I work at these things, not just go to play around. Utunu's coworker tracked me down for a chat ^_^ I'm flattered that people outside of the fandom see the work he commissions! There was also a girl I overheard talking about Skaven while she was looking at my ratty pictures, so I started a conversation with her. She was thrilled to find someone who was familiar with Warhammer, let alone another girl. When I explained that my rats are from L5R she was even happier because she'd just started a tabletop campaign with her own ratling character. All and all, a lot of fun!
Ikkicon!
This year I ran the Art Show with Alfred from Prismatic Llama. Our room was right next to the escalators so we actually had quite a bit of walk in traffic, including a fair number of normal people from outside the convention. It was a very good show with a lively group of bidders. 3 of our mail-in artists got pretty checks in an envelope because we had no art to mail back to them ^_^ I had 2 noshow winning bidders (fist shake) but still ended up with strong sales. Any con where I walk away with more than the total value of my buy it now prices is a good one!
Not surprising, the hardest pictures to sell to this crowd were large originals. Anime conventions in general have a younger audience that have to borrow someone else's disposable income, so large ticket items are less likely to move. Small prints and chibis were also slow to sell at Ikkicon. People went for the 11 by 14 matted prints, Stephanie Kao's medium-sized canvas prints, and Julia Lichty's poster-sized 18 by 24 prints.
Prismatic Llama is all perler bead art, which also went over well. I had a lot of fun playing with Alfred's supplies ^_^ I'd trade off making something for him from his pattern index for every random thing I made myself. He gave me a bunch of bead boards. ... and then I came home and bought a bunch of perler stuff for myself. I think this is my new project for when I need to not stare at the computer screen for an hour or two and don't want to set up my painting workstation.
I also got to have a couple of people treat moments (those times when talking to people made me feel really good). Both of my parents came to embarrass me, since this was a con in their home town. Dad had never seen any of my conventions, and I think this was a the first time he realized that I work at these things, not just go to play around. Utunu's coworker tracked me down for a chat ^_^ I'm flattered that people outside of the fandom see the work he commissions! There was also a girl I overheard talking about Skaven while she was looking at my ratty pictures, so I started a conversation with her. She was thrilled to find someone who was familiar with Warhammer, let alone another girl. When I explained that my rats are from L5R she was even happier because she'd just started a tabletop campaign with her own ratling character. All and all, a lot of fun!
Glad you had fun at the convention!