Sparkles and rainbows, oh my!

Shin's been bugging me to post.

(Actually I don't know if anyone besides us two are reading this stuff. For all I know we could just be a pair of deluded idiots manically posting up stuff for nobody to see

...which would be quite funny. But at the same time, really really sad.)

...

Barring that depressing possibility-

Minor correction gaiz, we haven't actually got the cosfest booth yet, we've only just applied for it. Hopefully we'll get it because it really is the con of cons in Singapore and what we've been aiming for from the start, but for the moment all we're gonna do is sit in front of our computer screens and drool in anticpation.

Something like that anyway.

Right now, both of us are rushing to add to our meagre selection of con goodies for the upcoming SGComifest 2 (Interested? You can find out more by clicking the link Shin provided in a previous post. For what it's worth, admission is free.) I myself have quite ambitious plans, but I really don't know how much of it I can complete in these 2 weeks. Although we should technically be useless bums with nothing to do but sit around and wait for uni to start, we both have jobs that suck up a lot of time that could otherwise spent on con stuff.

The comifest staff got all the boothowners to do a fanart of their mascot Pura (I sure hope they didn't get the name from Singapura, that would be corny beyond belief) to be used as prizes for some lucky dip or something. We weren't paid to do it, and it was an obligation on top of the booth payment fee (i.e. we don't get anything by doing it. Okay, maybe we get artist's recognition or something, but that isn't very important to me since I don't think my digital drawings are anything to be recognised for), so a couple of people I agonised to about it told me to knock up something slipshod. Anyway, I didn't, on the basis that the unlucky sod who does pick out an art as a prize shouldn't get something half-hearted, since it is a prize after all.

...Well, when I say I didn't, I meant I actually bothered to put in effort, not come up with something that's so magically gorgeous it emits sparkles and rainbows when it meets the naked eye.

...The whole reason for that long write-up about Pura fanart is so you don't expect much from mine, because I'm not particularly happy with it. I don't think Shin's happy with hers either, for that matter, although her concept is so cool! Mecha!Pura!? Mindblowing, man, mindblowing.

Tada, crusader!Pura. *cue in the whistles and horns*

All I can say in our defence is that we rushed it in one or two days, oops.


EDIT 25 May: We got the cosfest booth, shazam!

HELL YEAH SOY C (Ash's side of events)

This is my first time ever blogging, but here goes

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First up, a big thank you to all those who bought our stuff at our booth (Equal X, geddit, =x? We wanted :x, but it would then have been Colon X, which sounds like a movie about a radioactive organ transplant) especially to those who bought commissions off us! We're very glad and humbled that  people like our drawings enough to commission us c': For the 2 people whose commissions I have not completed , I will try my best to get them to you by next week, so don't worry :D

Anyway, have some pictures (will edit with more when I get more pictures):

Warning: the next few pictures were taken with my phone, so, shitty quality, you have been warned.

My bookmarks and keychains before they have been cut and done up

My keychains, before they have been, uh, keychain'd

Cutting my bookmarks, a surprisingly tiring business (or maybe it was just because it was 6am)

Some of my commissions (once again, thank you for commissioning me! ;u;)

Some of Shin's commissions (thank you for commissioning her!)

The view from our booth

Yesterday was my first SOY (not Shin's first though), and also the first time we attended an anime convention as booth owners and not as the usual con-goers. The experience is seriously vastly different. For one, both of us woke up late because we are so fly were too tired and had to rush to the venue, we barely had a few minutes to set up. (On the other hand, you can go at any time you want if you're not a booth owner.) I didn't get to look around at the cosplayers or the merchandise (like I usually do when I go to cons), so I didn't see much of the con except for the area around the booth (and even then not much of that, not even the people buying our stuff! [since my eyes were glued to paper most of the time]). That was something I feel a little regretful over, especially since my cousin was busy shouting cool things like 'HEY LOOK, IT'S V WITH GLASSES' into my ear.

On the plus side, we saw Cloud Strife waiting for the bus when we were leaving Ngee Ann Poly. Now that's what I call badass!

Although the day was far from relaxing, it was still awesome, ha, so don't get me wrong. I think the SOY C people did a great job organising SOY C, well done :) We also learnt a lot from this experience, so we'll be more prepared for the next con.

Oh and we'd like to thank the people who helped us at the con! Much thanks goes to Yuyuan and Goh Hong, who were there to help us set up the booth and were my sweatshoppers *v*", my cousin the King who also was a sweatshopper, and last but definitely not least, to the two sisters Shuyan and Shuhui, who are amazing salespeople, and who were so busy marketing our merchandise that they didn't even get to eat lunch and had to stand most of the time (and who also sweatshopped, they are so talented huh they can do everything~).

On another note, Shin and I will certainly be attending more cons as booth owners (we're looking at cosfest, and possibly an event called SGComiFest) before we get eaten up by uni life, so if you wanted to get some of our merchandise but didn't (and now regret it), you can probably catch us at these. We'll also be expanding and updating the range of our merchandise, both in types of products and in characters and series. For example, I'll definitely be adding Fran from Katekyo and Kakashi from Naruto as characters for keychains, so people who wanted both Bel and Fran will be able to get Bel's missing half Fran. I think we'll both be selling badges too because I like badges!


Okay, that's about it for my side.

Yeah I hope I did good on my first ever blog post, blogging is some tough shit, srsly. I am mentally drained.

(Now have some kyuubi-chakra-rasengan courtesy of Shin. Eat your heart out naruto)