Candy-Ice

Mission: huge success! I'm really happy with the turnout. I brought with me the Brawl chibi magnets and stickers (that I was able to do on time), iPhone whale plushies, iPhone whale pillows, two nyan cat plushies, and three different poster designs, two of them being my Cortana and the Sheikah poster. This was my first time doing any sort of Artist Alley thing, and it went incredibly well! I sold out of all my little iPhone whale plushies, I only had one left of the pillow version, I sold out of the Sheikah print, and only had one Cortana left. No one bought my other print, which is fine because all the art I had to sell was unfortunately really old and I didn't have enough time to make anything new The Brawl magnets and stickers didn't sell too well though...there was one guy who came and bought one of each magnet (which is AWESOME and I love that guy, especially since he brought back another customer! ). and I sold two stickers to one person, but unfortunately that was it. I wound up doing grab bags (and wrote "Swiggity Swag, what's in the bag?" on it, which a lot of people found hilarious XD) and sold three of those for ten dollars each; they were filled with two magnets and four stickers so it'd be two dollars off if you bought them individually. I'll still be finishing the series (next in line are ROB, Pikachu, and Ike,) and selling them on my Etsy for both magnet and sticker form though; right now it's listed as "made to order" but I have a whole bunch of surplus for the con, so I'll be going through that first before I make a new one. Since a lllooooootttttt of people like the whales (yay!) I'll be selling them on Etsy very shortly, in both their plushie and pillow versions! (And I'll be uploading a picture of them here too, since I didn't take one yet.)

I sat next to OmiOhMy and her partner, and they were the best neighbors ever AND my best customers! They bought one of my whale pillows and were hugging it and dancing around with it the whole time, it was really awesome! Shattered-Earth was across from us, and she is super nice! I bought her Lollipop Chainsaw print (despite never having played the game myself XD) as well as four of her pins. karniz was definitely one of the greatest people I've ever spoken to; I had originally asked her a few months ago some advice for selling at AnimeNEXT since I've seen her the past few times I've been there, and she gave me some great words of wisdom as well as some super awesome trades! I even met AdorkaStock, who recognized that my Cortana from referenced from her stock! I somehow didn't realize it was her until she said "Yay, it's me!" in which case I was too shocked to actually say anything XD You guys should watch all of these people, they're really cool and definitely deserve the recognition

My sales did pretty damn good and though I didn't cover all of my costs (more because plushies cost a lot to make, but I have a lot left over) I still sold so much and I had a great time! I'm definitely going to see if I can make this a yearly thing; AnimeNEXT is a good little con and I really enjoyed being a vendor there Hopefully I'll be taking a trip to Otakon this year as an attendee so I can enjoy the con experience instead of sitting around and never setting foot in the dealer's room XD I also got a whole bunch of spotpass tags on my 3DS, and got awesome hats which is the more important thing here XD

To all my new visitors from AnimeNEXT: thanks for stopping by and for your interest! And thanks to everyone else who helped make this is a good experience

Also, I set up some new sites! They're still in the process of being perfected (since we had to rush to get them up before the con), but they're up!

Website: lenawagner.com

Etsy: The Midnight Doe Productions

Email: contact@lenawagner.com

Art Tumblr coming soon!

Thanks again, everyone

AND SOMETIMES THEY COME WITH THINGS TO SAY

Hi guys!

Just doing the usual whoa-it's-been-a-long-time-since-I-posted-a-journal-I-should-probably-do-that thing. I know I'm getting rid of the pretty journal buuttttt considering how old that one was, I think it's about time I post something again.

So how's everybody doing? I got a few things to announce. One: my computer is being a derp and isn't working correctly! Yay! Pretty sure it's a battery problem but it sucks tremendously because I got all my homework and stuff to do so I need to get that fixed. Gotta call customer support since my warranty will cover it, but ehh. Most of my work has been in homework, and unfortunately it hasn't been anything interesting to post, but I'm trying to sketch during my free time! I really need to draw more, it honestly really bothers me how little personal projects I've been doing (chalk that up to lack of time at this rate, though.)

Two: I'm going vegan! I know it's a little random but a few months ago was when I first started thinking about it. I just started the beginning of this year, so I'm not that far along with it, but I totally serious about it and I'm very happy with my decision. Just thought I'd let you guys know that; I'm not going to post rants about it or anything but I feel like it's an important step worth mentioning.

Three: I'm totally tired! So I'm going to do what I do best and pretend I'm not and stay up for hours! Yay!

Hope you guys are all doing good, just stopping by and seeing how things are going

Well now, things have been a lot more busy than I expected since I got back. I have a very short Christmas break (only three weeks, going back Sunday) so each day has been whoa hanging out with millions of people. I've actually been working on some art that I'm really liking so far but I was a herp derp and left my tablet back at my dorm and unfortunately have not been able to finish it over my break, but hopefully I'll get time to work on it when I get back.

In other news, how was everyone's Christmas? Mine was small and quiet but nice, I got a new portfolio that is like super reinforced and waterproof so I am VERY HAPPY because my last one was made from two pieces of plastic and more taped corners than should be possible. My mom also gave me business cards along with a website so apparently I am now OFFICIAL although I didn't really ask for them and have no idea what to do with them because I don't feel I'm ready enough to sell prints yet. But indirectly I guess that's inspiring me to start drawing again so I can fill my website (which is currently blank) with stuff. Too bad I know nothing about web design either.

So just thought I'd say hi and see how everyone is doing. Hope you guys had a nice holiday and happy new year

HAS A LOT OF WORK.

So nearly a month into college and things aren't so bad. I keep getting a lot of work (three projects all due the same day? HURRRGGHH) but the whole college-aspect of it was easy to phase into. Just gotta get used to how they do things around here, certainly different than my school.

In other news, I remembered why I don't watch clubs. Almost 700 deviations, yikes! Gotta get on commenting and responding to everyone else's art too once I clear the clubs stuff out. As far as my own art goes I haven't really had a chance to do any. I'm majoring in Game Art so all of my attention has been put into that, plus a friend of mine asked for me to do a concept art piece for his own game idea. Things are going pretty ok on that end though.

In the meantime, YOU GUYS ARE ALL AMAZING AND I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH YOU ALL IMPROVED! That's more a general statement because I haven't really gotten a chance to look at anyone's art yet, but it's what I've been thinking for a while, so I just had to say it

And yeah, off to those comments