Mindless Thoughts

Random thoughts of my Art at the moment:

1. Current project: Food Challenge. Revamping is in progress....So far I have 10 done, one inked waiting for coloring, and one ready for inking. Currently this is the latest finished one:

 2. Thoughts of Art for money......Selling my art might not be something that I'm not new at. My hand-painted Dragons used to go like "hotcakes" in my mom's ceramic studio and the various art shows/fairs we would attend. As a volunteer at the Lighthouse for the Blind, where my mother teaches Ceramics, I got to participate in their craft sale. And I have done a total of about 6 commissions (drawing) in my time as an Anime Artist. Plus, a few commissioned Dragons. So, with the personality that I have, it's hard to be the one stepping out on my own to find through trial and error how to go about selling my art. I have done a few art shows/fairs on my own with the help of my husband (who was just my boyfriend at the time) or with a few of my art buddies' from college. And to constantly hear from people "Oh my Blank does this kind of drawings too." and feel free to fill in that blank with whatever you can think of (son, daughter, grandchild, niece, nephew, cousin, etc.), "Have you considered going into Animation/Comic book company/Publishing books with this?" do you know how hard it is to get into those type of things?! seriously thanks but no thanks, I couldn't handle the pressure and I don't really have the skills required for any of those jobs you just listed people. I barely have one panel page (comic book style page) under my belt and it's not anywhere near a DC or Marvel upcoming title, or "Why aren't you at ComicCon selling this stuff?" Oh geez where do I start with this one, maybe because I don't have  1,200+ dollars to spend on a space in their artist alley area space that's if I manage to get picked out of the thousand plus applications they get on top of that I would still need the money to get my "badge" or ticket to said convention. It's not like that's not on my artist bucket list. Any hobby, needs money that's why I'm here not at ComicCon, Anime Expo (AX), or WonderCon.
     It's been a few years since I started up my own Facebook page, Digifoxcat, and I'll admit to have forgotten about it since I'm posting my artwork on my personal page and on deviantART. On both deviantART and Facebook, I started up commissions. And over time with no responses, I became very depressed in the realm of selling my art. I have been encouraged by my husband and by God to regain my courage and start to slowly peruse selling my art once again. Baby steps are a small key in an introverted artist's journey to regain self worth in her passion. I got the idea that a challenge would help keep a daily/weekly/monthly regiment of drawing going, so that started my first thought. Next, is to work on organizing my artworks in order to update my portfolios, both online and my "hard copy" one, in order to pick a portfolio review at this year's WonderCon to hopefully get to see what the "Pros" think of my stuff. And to look into what's it going to take to sell my art via craft/art shows and fair type things.

-Till next time, FoxCat ya later