Acceleron

This year hasn't been a great one for art. I've been too busy for the last twelve months to even get a chance to pickup my stylus. Once 2014 rolls around things should hopefully calm down. Maybe then I'll have more time to draw art. Anyway my other resolution for 2013 was to lose 15 lbs which somehow I was able to surpass (45 lbs) with hard work and determination. This year I am aiming for 25lbs and yeah, one large art project a month.

Well, Las Pegasus Unicon is over. I enjoyed it due to being a quiet event, but with reservations.

The good part: Unlike Everfree in Seattle last year which kept selling out over and, over and, over again causing most people to miss panels due to poor venue choice. Unicon had so few people that I was able to go to every panel, and I had no reason to worry about artists running out of prints that I was interested in purchasing. In the end it felt like some of the industry trade shows I've gone to for my work and the my personal growth in knowledge.

Now for the bad part: I spent most of Sunday at home waiting to take a couple people to the airport from Unicon when it finished that day. Suddenly, I get a text from a friend saying the convention pretty much imploded. Instead of the convention ending at 11pm or whenever, it pretty much ended in the middle of the afternoon. When I got there I heard  of money issues and management issues occurring. I don't know all the details and I am not going to go on a war path and directly accuse people of bad management, or cutting their losses and running. I'll leave that to the readers of this post and other sources to make their own opinion.

My conclusion: Did I get to see the people who made MLP:FiM? Yes, and I feel it was somewhat worth it even if I didn't go and shake their hands and thank them for making a good show. However, in the end I feel bad for the dealers who were selling their wares. It was so slow for them it probably would have been a better choice to just go to Red Rock and see some of the beautiful scenery that is in Las Vegas I would have been happy to show them around the city if they asked. (There is more in this city than smokey casinos full of people who think they can make a quick dollar by spinning the reels).

Anyway, it's 2013, and I'm late at doing my dA New Years Resolution. Time to get back to my job and finally, drawing.

I thought I would do one of these, and I asked ManateeMcKenzie to feature a bit of my art on his journal. I guess I'll continue it too and I'll update it the evening hours (pacific time).

Rules:
1. For each of the 20 first people answering this journal, I will put their avatar and the three deviations I like most from their gallery on the list
2. If you answer, you have to do the same in your journal, putting the original poster (in this case, me) on the first place. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone.

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A friend from the ATG group and mod for Ask Toola Roola asktoolaroola.tumblr.com/

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I've been at Everfree NW all weekend and I had a pretty good time. Probably explains why my dA has been mostly quiet for the last couple of weeks OTL (Last week I had art block, thankfully I was able to mostly get past it at EFNW after doing a few really basic sketch dumps - I'm so horrible with traditional art give me digital anyday of the week sta.sh/2oorxqcddon).

Anyway I made a few new friends, and I got hangout with a bunch of people I know on IRC such as , , and . I also got to meet others I know on IRC such as and and get prints from them.  

Also, as any con attendee does I got the entire female cast to sign one of the prints I purchased. I didn't have time to get the male cast to sign it however I needed to at least use some of my vacation time to visit downtown and all of interesting sights. Perhaps at another con I can get their signatures, and hopefully have them sign one of my own prints. I am a hobbyist artist after all.

Anyway, the highlight of saturday? Hanging out with EQD pre-readers, and watching Gravity Falls. I didn't say much to him however. I watched him sketch so many pieces at the dealers hall, and I bet the last thing he would want to talk about is art or pony since it's probably draining.

Anyway fun times. Hopefully the next EFNW will be at a much larger venue like an actual convention center close to or in downtown. Although I can't complain about the exercise I got having to hoof it to the Marriott (much needed exercise woo!). The only things that were a nightmare was registration (honestly three lines and two hour wait? It would have been much easier  if badges were either sent in the mail weeks in advance or allow for pre-registration on thrusday), and events at the Holiday Inn upstairs (it was either impossible to get into the event or they made it impossible to get to your hotel room).

Anyway, I might try to make it down to EQLA in November if I am still in Nevada. Otherwise, I'll probably wait for the next one in Seattle or New York.

Feels like only yesterday I was taking Biometrics just to see if I could work full time and take graduate classes. Now after two and a half years and eleven classes I have a masters degree in Electrical Engineering. Not a moment too soon since my work might be laying a person off in the fall and it's probably time to move somewhere else for a different change of scenery, I'm getting bored living in the desert.  

Now then, back to drawing in all the wrong ways.