Ai-kon was alright – I made back my costs and a little bit of spending money, but not much else.  I managed to get some commissions done at the convention itself, which I’ve never succeeded at before, because I am kinda slow at the art things.

I took pictures of these, I’ll be posting them on my sketchblog later.

Regardless, I find it interesting that whenever I talk to other artists about cons, the advice is always to draw fanart for conventions, because no one cares about original characters.  I don’t draw a terrible lot of fanart, and so it’s always a bit of a hassle, but I do try and get some fanart done.  This year, I drew DeathNote’s L.  A popular character, I knew, and certainly so at the con – many, MANY people dressed as L.

And yet, not one person bought my L picture.  Not one.  …One of the other artists traded me for it, but that’s all.

My fanart never sells, which kind of confuses me, since my original stuff does alright.  Other people seem to have the opposite problem.

Oh well.  *shrug*