'Sakuracon 08 + Seattle Trip Report'
Overall this year's Sakuracon was, in a nutshell, 'Stressfully Fun'.
Me and a couple of friends stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel. Not exactly the best hotel we've stayed in but we did get a room with cozy sheets for us to sleep under. We got our badges before con-time and started prepping up for artist's alley the following day.
Friday day was alright, sold a couple of prints even though it was a slow day. It rained and snowed for a little bit. I sat with my long-time artist alley partner Mala, who won the Sakuracon mascot contest 2 years in a row before yielding to another artist this year. She made a lot of commissions and her boyfriend Nick was a big help in helping with sales. I mostly sketched, printed business cards and ran errands back and forth while signing and rolling my prints up for people. I rarely do commissions on-site nowadays since I love to take my time when I sketch.
Saturday day got better. The one thing that made my day all throughout con-time was meeting a very interesting person from a specific video game company. I won't disclose any information yet but we'll see how my luck turns out. Same old stuff I did since yesterday but the crowd got more massive as the day progressed. I took pictures of cosplayers and bought stuff from the dealer's room as Nick filled in for me. I forgot to mention that I brought my Heelys with me hahaha, so I was rolling all over the artist's alley when I got bored.
Last day, rakugaking and zombotto showed up and we hanged around Seattle for a bit. Gave them some 'special' prints and we dined away at the Pike Place food court and went to Zanadu comic book shop. I messed up a bit and gave a couple of wrong prints to them so I still have to send the right ones after I get some proper packaging.
After the con I went to Mala's house, met her parents and dined an array of asian dishes. Dishes like sticky rice, balut and catfish soup. Very appetizing stuff I tell you :D After a lot of life story conversations we headed out and slept and Nick's place. Nick's mom has this bad ass, full-sized Spiderman statue complete with Spiderman bling and he kept me company all throughout the night. We brawled a bit with SSBB the next day and cleaned Nick's bathroom. I love cleaning dirty stuff, its a very zen moment when you see everything sparkling and tidy.
Anyway I'll leave you off with pictures, I got a slight fever today and I hope it doesn't get worse.
Registration
Bonsais
Nick and Mala
Mala workin'
Artist's Alley
Chel/Portal cosplayer
Tingle using a computer :D
Aperture Science employee at Kinko's
Aperture Science application form. I need to get this framed :D
Blu Engineer and Red Scout from Team Fortress 2
Best cat ever!
A very impressive-looking Heavy Weapons Guy
Ico
Night shot of the alley
Nick took a shot of this :D
View from the hotel
TF2! No soldier and demoman dohhh~
This will be my new SteamID picture haha!
Dealer's room, figurines everywhere!
Yaoi Land!
Penny Arcade Booth
Gabe and Tycho in the flesh
DO NOT WANT!
Cutie Honey photoshoot
OMG COOKING PAPA!
DON'T WORRY PAPA WILL FIX IT!!
Mala with bedhead
LIES!!!
Photoshop Heroes!!!
Trip to Vashon
The couple
Nick lookin' good
Ceiling pipes
Egg yolk
Bird placenta
Night lights at the ferry harbor
Yaranaika?
GOOOOOORRR~~
I couldn't keep a straight face hahaha
Urban Outfitters
Colorful ads :D
Nick's friend Kevin
Homeless with a cart
I live by that rule
Magazine with Kinu's art
Sign at the train station
Loot!
Doujins:
Xenogears/Xenosaga Tribute by Heroes Factory
FF12 doujin by Nekoi Mie
Rare Saiki Keita doujin feat. AkiraXDaigo from Rival Schools
Evangelion doujin by my fav H-artist Yukimi
Shirt:
FLCL shirt by Brocolli Gear
Artbooks:
Eureka Seven Designs artbook
Vampre Graphic File (Darkstalkers)
Japanese Comickers 2 *has tutorials from Juno Jeong and HTK*
Figures:
FF7 Advent Children Airship Replica "The Sierra"
FF12 Judge Gabranth Figure
Print (not shown above):
Signed Devil May Cry print by Jo Chen *scroll down*
Close-up of the Sierra *this will look nice on my desk*
Doujins
Sketch I did at the con
DMC signed print!
