Dragon Con 2007

[natsunekko]

Bah. Dragoncon was disappointing. Last year I made a little over $500 with two panels, so this year I went crazy and reserved a whole bay all to myself. I sent my five best originals. The postage alone was $70 each way. In previous years, I'd sent two or three originals, and they have always sold

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[april_art]

Are you on the Art Shows Yahoo Group?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiFantasyHorrorSpace_ArtShows/

They usually talk a LOT about Dragon there... and you can probably if people saw the show and maybe remembered your panels--and what they thought.

Your bay might have been in a poor place or bad lighting... or maybe attendance/sales at the art show are down this year. Lots of reason for sales being lower than expected... Most of which are totally unpredictable and out of your control.

I think all the paintings you have up on ebay are lovely. If I weren't spending all my money on dolls these days and if I didn't have the typical fannish full-wall syndrome, I'd be buying some of your originals. (Sadly, I know that's something you hear a lot. I certainly do! "If only ***, I'd buy all your art!!!") *sigh*

[april_art]

typo: "... and you can probably ASK if people saw the show" is what I meant....

[elspet]

That is a pity, but it is true that sales --- and what sells --- are completely unpredictable. At Shore Leave this year, I had one of my pieces go to auction that usually has only gone to minimum (or barely over) bid. Turned out one of the guests HAD TO HAVE IT --- for some reason this very cute (and pink --- pink paper, pink matt, pink roses, etc) and coy nude anime-style unicorn girl surrounded by roses really got his attention enough that he told one of the staffer to bid on it for him at the auction no matter what it cost in the end (there's also a funny story about meeting him after the auction). Go figure. Hopefully you'll do better at Nekocon. On that note (and if you hadn't gotten the e-mail I sent out prior to Worldcon): Paul and I will be pretty much running the Anime USA Art Show; it's the second weekend after Nekocon, so you can send me stuff for that Art Show, too.

Dc

[theresamather]

My assessment of DC based on the last 10 years of sales is this: you can rack it up with low end sales but the high end isn't there. I usually move 100-150 of the $10 mini prints in the print shop at this point. I think my medium sized originals are coming back and I didn't bother to send larges. It's a low end show...this has been consistant for the decade that I've done it.

There are also too many artists for the market at this con.

Be sure to send to Worldcon in denver next year, I'll agent for you at Comiccon if you wish. And retail sales in general are more unpredictable at the moment. But yeah. It's the con, not overall marketability of what you sent.

[purplkat]

Hey, I'm not sure if you'll get this, but I had a question for you. I've started playing on LA again now that Levi is no longer active and actively bothering me (yes, I know. Bad me.) and there's a tempest in a teapot style uproar going over Peggy's having vanished. It just occurred to me that I could shut it down pretty fast if you'd tell me what Peggy's ICly up to and assuming staff give me permission to have the knowledge IC, I can pass it on, and we can move on to other subjects.

[wookieemuenster]

Sorry for the late comment, I just got on LJ