Recent News

In recent news; HOBO gets taste of VICTORY.

Bouncing onward from my recent Daily Deviation, the Skywhale piece soared ever onward into the hearts and minds of Tumblrites and has currently amassed 16,000 notes, full of likes and reblogs. Thankfully this has seen a bleeding effect on my other tumblr offerings and recent posts.

To all my new followers on Tumblr - F--K YES I luff all of you. I hope to fill your tumblr feeds with more awesome in our futures together.

Tumblr is a seriously powerful force to be reckoned with, I would reblog more stuff on there but I want to keep my main account purely my own stuff as an interactive ever changing gallery. I'm hoping to set up an inspiration tumblr in the near future, but there's so many on there already

I feel really humbled to be able to quantify that I have touched the minds / vision of almost 200,000 people through Imgur. That's amazing. I did some terrible math, and discovered that if each of those viewers offered up £1 each (I'm British), I'd be able to work for the next 10 years and produce roughly 4000+ paintings (of that quality)..... @_@

INPRNT

I submitted 3 pieces to INPRNT for review and I was thankfully successful. I now have the power to offer up high quality prints of my artwork for those of you who expressed interest.

PRINTS AVAILABLE HERE :D

 "This is an gallery-quality giclée print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks."

I reported myself to the Grumpy Cat owners for copyright violation, in the hopes they'll see it sooner and grant me permission to sell it as a print. :3 Paws crossed.

I will be offering up more artwork in the near future as and when I have prepared them for print. I'll post up details and updates as and when they turn up.

STUDIES

Gotta keep sharp with the studies! Push it push it push it!

DOJ-CON Experience

Exhibiting at DOJ-CON

I've been attending D-CON/DOJ-CON for all of the years it has been in operation and each year I've thought, or have been explicitly told, 'You should have a table here!' So this year marks a notch in my belt, and I decided to book the table before I was even ready for it. No matter what, BE THERE. Be present.

"Eighty percent of success is showing up. " ~ Woody Allen

Surprising and quite relieving to find I wasn't as nervous as I expected while I was setting up my table, but I was still full of jittery energy without the sinking feeling. My mouth kept going uber-dry as I tried to settle into my 'totally needs a cushion' chair.

I used an A3 sketchbook to prop up my folio display in a stroke of last minute improvisation and Ak secured it to the table via gorilla tape. I was ready. Slight delay in the doors being opened, but holy shit when they finally did. The glacier of people sliding past the table, in assorted eccentric dress was amazing.

Brilliant fun followed while painting live, and while I've not livestreamed much in the past its a pretty solitary experience compared to being able to look up and into the eyes of people watching the monitor. Audience interaction became tactile as I could respond to comments/reactions in realtime, often I was inspired also by the amazing soundtracks being played by the organisers.

I began to settle after I'd sold some prints - my first one being Selling a Luffy print to a Luffy cosplayer. Easy sale!

My aim was to cover costs so I wasn't losing vital income, and to gain some new audience and in this I feel fulfilled. I spent my profits feeding my friends :D I retain a folio full of prints to use in the future which are available to buy for £5, and I carry with me the experience of the event itself.

What I've learned

• I need a larger selection of prints for people to 'browse'. 7 is too low a number. People want moar.
• People like to watch digital art being created when they don't especially understand the medium.
• The most commonly asked question of the day was 'What sort of tablet is that? :D'
• 1 day is not long enough, bring back the weekend event
• Always bring along a monitor / laptop. It kicks ass!

Thanks to those who purchased prints and showed their enthusiasm, its a bolster to my ambitions to succeed as a freelancing hero artist, and to any new followers of mine online Harro! and I was super pumped that the best sellers were my original paintings over fanart.

Many thanks to my visiting friends from Edinburgh who helped keep my company, and made the evening following the event a pleasure.

PS.

Gryffindor woolen sweater for the win!