The Art Proposal | 1/3

Pumpkin Carving | Vampire ¿?

October 25, 2023

Cute little pumpkin I carved during an event at my rez. It stayed outside my dorm room until it was relocated outside due to rot 💔

Knife on pumpkin

The Real Tuesday Weld | Me and Mr. Wolf

January 24, 2020

Fanart I did of the song because I like the song.

The bricks on the wall took me foreverrr. I remember seeing a video of people painting bricks and idk mine took wayy longer than theirs.

Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper

April 2024

Krita

Another drawing I did to embed in a fic. Not even gonna tag it with hazbin stuff because it's 99% noncanon shite.

Anifest Artist's Alley

November 5, 2024

The fated day finally came!! Definitely was a stressful time. I made stands for the sticker promo board and the board I hung the posters on at the makerspace earlier in the day. Me and my friend also made cute little fandom labels for the stickers.

I invited quite a few of my friends to come hang out during this debacle. It was a blessing and a curse. One of my friends in particular kept on pissing me off by constantly nagging me abt how "increase profits." Actually got pissed off to such a high degree but I digress.

Anyways, the event was really cute. There were a LOT of vendors. Hot damn, was the room crowded. A lot of them were also seasoned vendors which was pretty crazy. I wish I had gone around and been more friendly to them, but I see why I didn't this event had me exhausted before it even began.

I ended up setting the pricing as: 3$ for one large sticker, 5$ for two large stickers, $1 for one small sticker, and $15 for one poster.

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Things I learned:

Less clutter! The table was really overwhelming and I'd like space to put my laptop for excel tracking xP

Actually have people follow my art account for receiving my stamp for the stamp rally

Just chillll, have a good timee. It'll be a lot easier when I do it again because 90% of the work will already be done, but I still need to remember that this is for the fun sillies and that I don't need to focus on numbers at all.

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According to my Excel sheet (which definitely is not 100% accurate because I forsure missed a few things), the data is as follows:

58 Stickers Sold

0 Posters Sold

Cost: 141.35

Revenue: 118

Profit: -23.35

Note: the cost includes sticker paper/some supplies that I didn't actually use, but because it was related I included it. Also, the vinyl was apparently 50$ which I swear it wasn't- never in my right mind would I buy that. Still put it in as 50$ because whtvr.

The most popular sticker designs were: The Knight (13), Coraline (7), and Grimm (6).

**Some of them were traded for other stickers / not exactly sold**

0 posters sold?? Yepppp. I think it's less of a pricing problem, but more of a people just weren't interested in the fandoms. I would've sold them for any amount of money tbh, but noone seemed interested. Plus, I tried to do a poster trade with someone and they declined because they weren't familiar with any of the fandoms. I mean I didn't know the fandoms their posters were about either, but ig a lot of people aren't interested in posters purely for the illustration 🥲🥲

So I have a lot of posters... Teehee. I'll definitely try to sell them next year again (as I will with the leftover stickers), but I don't know if it'll make much of a difference. Hopefully, though 🙏🙏🙏

Idk man it's strange because I genuinely look at those four pieces and am so proud that I made it. Like the craftsmanship yo. I can't tell if I'm genuinely just being delusional, but it's not like anyone close to me has given me the impression that they're actually terrible drawings either.

Ofc my own opinion is what matters most, and despite the doubt that the lack of sales for these posters has given me, it hasn't changed how much I absolutely love those pieces. Especially because the technique I used changes for each one. All of them give me a different thought of "I can't believe I made that" and takes me out of the whole 'I can immediately tell how I made that' mindset that I fall into when subconsciously trying to devalue my art/skills. I really have to think to recall the techniques I used to make each piece (O.K. maybe not the hellboy one but still), because they're all so damned complicated. Idk I love them a lot, but I will be forever a little bit bummed that other people don't love them as much as I.

AFK Arena | Shemira, Nara, Solise, Ferael

March 21, 2020

AFK arena fanart. Wanted to make fanart of all of the graveborns/my mains, but never finished it. Was fun nonetheless

Best part about the game is the art and the designs they're so good.

Pen, pencil and highlighter on paper

Arkhamcycle | drawing (and ranking) species from last and first men

August 16, 2020

Uhhhh

Depiction of all of the creatures discussed in arkhamcycle's *insert video name here* video. Including (and limited to) the great arkhamcycle himself

Castle kill redraw

March 12, 2021

insta notes:

ayo the whole drawing can't fit in the cropping 😎

redraw of the second pic. og was done sometime in 2016

slide 7 was the hair before I realised that it's at the wrong angle

the skull is kinda out of place, proportionately inconsistent, and looks horrible if mirrored, but I love it.

this was my first choice for the discord thing but they specified that the drawing had to be from 2020.

Kill la kill | Ryuko Matoi

Aug 18 2022

Don't really know what to say abt this one. No past notes on it.

Just another installment of the kill la kill girls. Like the pose. I know I wanted to maybe do her suits other forms but yk i had to do the classic 🤑

August 11, 2024

Another painting I did at the cafe. Used the metallic white as my base, and then sketched a fish skeleton on it using my silver metallic pen. Then smoothed out and fixed the forms with a damp brush.

I like the effect using the metallic-on-metallic paints give. Depending on the angle you're looking at it you can either clearly see the fish, or see nothing at all. I think it's neat

Metallic acrylic paint on canvas

Colour Ref Sheets | Marine, Monarch, Ivor, Tyrian, Iris, TBN, Duke, Saffron

March 7-9, 2021

Holy fuck what did I do to red's feet why they dogs like that 😭

gotta redraw all of these because I don't draw em like this anymore. And also to do them justice,,, there are improvements to be made

I think I've named them !!! (see updated colour sheet?!! (it has not been made at all at time of writing))

insta notes:

my low effort guys

needed a color ref sheet 4 them

finished b4 the nui one but I dont remember which day. did the sketches the same day I started nui

they're all nameless qwq

done on one file on dif layers. copypasted onto the color ref 4 easier life

"color ref the babs.jpg"

white one.jpg

yellow one

scissordrago

red one

blue one

butterfly

"motal.jpg"

sketches