This is how I spent my weekend. Yay Anime Central preparations! There’s more clocks in progress, but these are the ones completely put together.
Fun facts:
1. The Marceline one? The guitar goes around the clock in seconds, since it’s the second hand.
2. Jack Frost was the first one I made this weekend. I made his hoodie for the edge of the clock with pencil dipped in white paint.
3. The Sailor Moon silhouette is painted on the glass itself, so it sticks out a bit.
4. Kid Flash feels :(
These will be for sale at my table at Anime Central. T-minus two weeks!
Anime Central
So the next convention for us is Anime Central, and man, we have a LOT of stuff to get made beforehand. I didn’t expect to sell so much stuff at Anime Detour. I started with 101 coasters and am down to 29. I started with 9 clocks and am down to 3. The tarot set did AMAZINGLY WELL, with 5 coasters left out of 26. I will most likely be remaking those and maybe making some repeats. The Magician got asked about the most ^^. I also have 13 commissions to finish. Guess it’s time not to have a social life for about a month, which is fine, because I also have to finish editing the book. Also have to run out and get more supplies this weekend since I’m running low on things.
So here’s some sets I’m thinking of doing for sure:
1. Sailor Moon (since ALL of them sold)
2. Adventure Time (particularly want to do the gender swap set)
3. Persona Tarot (no matter how much I’m going to swear at it)
4. Nostalgia stuff (like Cartoon Network, probably old school Nickelodeon too, just cuz it’s fun seeing people’s reactions to it)
5. Persona eye sets (because I only have three left)
6. Young Justice/comic heroes/super heroes in general
I’m still thinking of other series to do, and I’d love suggestions as well :) I also need to do more large woodburnings since Faye sold right away and Sebastian went up pretty high in the Charity Auction. I still wonder who got it, though, I wish I could thank them ^^
Is this how it feels to have a small business?
brichibiwritesthings:
Hello everyone! Sorry I haven’t been doing much writing lately. Anime Detour is only 2 weeks away so its crunch time on getting things done for my table. I thought I’d share some pics of what I’ve been up to.
1. Shin Megami Tensei tarot card coaster set! There’s only 8 more left to woodburn, but the picture shows that I, indeed, have every single card that shows up in Persona 3 and Persona 4 :)
2. Sebastian Michaelish woodburning. For Anime Detour’s charity auction to hopefully be signed by the voice actor and put up for bid. His eyes are painted red because he’s “one hell of a…” yeah you know the saying.
3. Eva unit 01 woodburning. For sale at my table along with a whole bunch of other things.
4. Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop. For sale at my table along with a whole bunch of other things.
Also at the table I’ll have business cards for my book, “Treat Me Kindly,” since they came in a week earlier than expected :) I’ll be spending this weekend writing, since I have a short story to look over and edit by Monday. Whee, busy busy busy!
Message from the writing blog on why the heck there hasn’t been much writing lately. Look at them crafts, yo!
OMG! Last woodburning done before the weekend! Cowboy Bebop, man, where do I begin? Despite how many times Cartoon Network has played this (are they still playing it?) I still have so much love for this series. I thought a cool, silhouette of Faye Valentine would be great for a last big woodburning for Anime Detour. If I magically have time left in the next two weeks I might do another big burning, but I doubt that I will, so Faye is the last one for this con :)
Picture one: All finished! White smoke and all!
Picture two: Beginning sketch
Picture three: Woodburned, minus white smoke.
See you in space, cowboy! Or rather, see you at Anime Detour ^^
*exhausted breath* O.K. This is the last progress picture, the next picture will have ALL OF THEM WOODBURNED! But this is ALL of the tarot cards in the arcana for Persona 3 and Persona 4. This includes the extras, like Adachi for example and the face on the back of the cards. There are only 8 more left to burn *happy dance*
This whole set will be at Anime Detour in a couple of weeks :)
Hey guys! Remember this crazy project? It’s almost done! I’m sketching the very last tarot card right now! I hope to have the entire set done by the end of the week :) This set includes the arcana in Arena, in just… well, everything Persona 3 and Persona 4 ^^
I’m debating on whether or not I should have one last card with the image that’s on the back of the cards. This one right here.
The entire set will be at Anime Detour in a few weeks. I think, maaaaybe, whatever sells I want to try and remake for Anime Central. I might change my mind since this entire project has been insane ^^;; The coasters can be purchased individually since I don’t expect anyone to be crazy enough to buy all of them.
Thoughts on having the face as a card to go with it? Thoughts on the project as a whole?
This is how I spent part of my weekend! Anime Detour has a charity auction every year and I try to come up with something to put in it. This year is the first year I thought ahead of time ^^;;; J. Michael Tatum will be at the convention and I thought, “What if I woodburned a big picture of Sebastian? And he signed it?” I’ve been emailing the people in charge of the auction and they like the idea!
The burning is done (yay!) and now all that’s left is to have him sign it. The plan is for it to be signed the night before the convention, so it’ll be autographed when its put in the auction on Friday :)
Along with the finished picture is some progress pictures. This was something I started to do on Saturday and finished about half an hour ago ^^
Picture one: All finished, red eyes and all!
Picture two: The start of the project. The picture is sketched onto the wood in pencil, very lightly, in case I had to erase anything.
Picture three: Penciled in the parts that will be woodburned.
Picture four: Started to woodburn, took a picture to show the difference between the woodburn and pencil :)
Picture five: All the burning is done!
This was fun to do and I’m kind of surprised it didn’t take as long as I thought. My poor little woodburning probably hates me, though ^^;;; If you’re going to Anime Detour, be sure to check this out in the auction!
As always, feel free to check out my Etsy store or my DeviantArt :) I haven’t done too many large woodburnings, so I hope this turned out o.k.?
Anime Detour work station! This is what my living room looks like right now. Look at all of those woodburned and painted coasters. I have at least 72 ready, but these are the ones done this week. So yes, on top of getting the book published is epic crafting for my art table ^^;;;
If you’re going to Anime Detour, check out “Sewn Together Reflections.”
Thanks to the positive response over the coaster I did I thought, “What goes best with a coaster? A glass!” I use to do glass painting a lot, but then the glass paint I used to use was discontinued, so I stopped. Then, a friend got me some glass stuff for my birthday last year, but the glasses kinda sat around because I couldn’t come up with any ideas for them.
Then Rise of the Guardians came out.
Then I discovered new glass paint.
I’m still testing it out, really, since I’ve never baked it on there before. So in the next two days I’ll know if it actually work/can be washed, ect. I figured it was safe to make Guardians, because if it doesn’t work my partner will keep it. If it does work, well, it’ll be at Anime Detour with the coaster ^^
The glass is hand painted and I actually dipped a pencil in the paint to do the snowflakes, just to try and get the lines done properly ^^ I hope everyone enjoys this new Rise of the Guardians glass and coaster set :)
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