2014 Artist Alley Art Compilation

In 2014 I had an artist alley table at five different anime and pop-culture conventions, all held in Melbourne. Unlike in 2013, I had my artist table mostly all to myself this time. I spent a lot of time drawing fanart for trading, but also took up a one year graphic design course in 2014. So, due to time constrains, I didn’t draw as much as I planned, but here are some of the artworks and designs I made for trading that year.

Art prints of Ruby Rose and Blake Belladonna from the web series “RWBY”.

Chibi-style art prints of Ciel from Black Butler, Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin, Usagi from Sailor Moon, and Gon & Killua from HunterxHunter.

Traditional drawings of Levi from Attack on Titan, and England from Axis Powers Hetalia.

These were made with black fineliner pen and watercolour. The few times I actually used watercolour and it came out not bad, though I won’t start calling myself a watercolourist anytime soon. (ʘ‿ʘ)

[1-3] Italy, Germany & Japan from Hetalia, [4-6] Miku, Rin & Gumi from VOCALOID,
[7] Naruto, [8] Luffy, [9] Ichigo.

The above are chibi illustrations I made for turning into bookmarks (right side). These were the start of a series of chibi bookmarks that I drew and expanded upon between 2014 to 2016.

All of the above digital illustrations were created using PaintTool SAI with a Wacom tablet and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop. They were originally posted on DeviantArt and I eventually took them down later.

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My Artist Alley Tables

I didn’t take as many photos of my tables as I did in 2013, but here are the ones I did take.

Other conventions I had an artist table at (but no photo) are:

• CHAOz Con – Aug 2014
• Animaga Expo – Sep 2014
• Armageddon Expo – Oct 2014

Armageddon Expo was the only convention I shared my table with another artist Enixyy, who I shared a table with at the exact same convention in 2013.

Overall, my experience trading my art at conventions in 2014 was still quite fun. I never did hit it big and I had room for improvement, but I wanted to continue this path a little longer and kept going into the next year in 2015.

2013 Artist Alley Art Compilation

After graduating from my animation course, I decided that animation wasn’t really for me, or rather I didn’t want to pursue it professionally anymore. Instead, I decided to go the direction of trying to make a business out of my hobby for drawing anime-style art and it took a serious turn to drawing more fanart for conventions in 2013.

I went to four different anime and pop-culture conventions held in Melbourne and had an artist alley table at all of them. Three out of the four tables, I shared a table with another artist. Here are some of the artworks I sold during these conventions.

Art prints of China & Chibi Japan, N.Italy & S.Italy, and Russia from the webcomic “Axis Powers Hetalia”.

Several of the above illustrations were created using PaintTool SAI, a drawing software that I used often in 2013 because it worked better with my wacom tablet, and some were created using Adobe Photoshop.

Chibi pencil drawings of Ruby, Weiss, Blake & Yang from the web series “RWBY”.

All of the above fanart illustrations were originally posted on DeviantArt and I eventually took them down later.

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My Artist Alley Tables