Hi! I’m Ivy, a Vietnamese-American digital artist and small business owner with a love for all things cute and cozy!
Here you can find studio + artist alley vlogs, small business tips and tricks, and some occasional life and travel vlogs ᵕ̈ Follow me along my journey of managing a small business and selling in artist alley at anime conventions!
You're hotel was under $300????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Where did you stay!?!??!?! Did you share with like 8 people? How is that possible?
they're called "grid cube storage" on amazon! I have my amazon storefront linked in the video description where you can find the things I use for my display/my AA essentials ᵕ̈
they're called "grid cube storage" on amazon! I have the exact things I use for my display + my AA essentials linked in the video description! hope it helps! ᵕ̈
yup that's me 🤭 I think a lot of people buy these prints online/are gifted them by friends and family before they stumble upon me at a con/my page online 🤣
there were so many artists there! it really hard to not miss a few tables 🤧 I do a lot of cons year round and several are in southern California so maybe you can catch me at a future one! 🥹🙌
I was at Anime Expo and I wanted to your bag and some other artists as well. However, when choosing between a t-shirt and a tote bag, I chose shirts because they were pretty much the same price . . . but $35 or sometimes, $40 . . . it was just way too expensive, IMO. Perhaps, next year, I can afford to buy one of yours.
2:09 Hello, just to clarify (I’m an artist who went as a helper) -- ACEN did NOT require us to put their sign on display. It wasn’t mentioned in their guidelines. I am commenting specifically to this only because this was a conversation I had with my friend!!! Haha. In insisted she needed to put her acen-printed signage and number on the front of her table, and she said it was not part of the requirement. So minutes before the show started, we both reviewed the guidelines … and it wasn’t mentioned there. 😊
thanks for the clarification! idk why i totally thought it was part of the requirement but i must've gotten it mixed up with another convention 🫣 regardless, i always advise artists to put the sign with their table number up since it helps attendees find your table again if they're looking for you ☺️
First and foremost I LOVE your energy! I recently found your channel and I just want to say THANK YOU! so much for sharing your experience within all these cons you are attending. I'm an artist (artist alley noob) and your videos have been helpful ^_^
What's it like for the different seasons? I imagine cons are a warm weather event so im curious what your winter is like. I'm also curious if you vacuum pack the soft stuff for travel, I've seen lil handheld vacuums for sale for that. Might help with packing all the totes and hats
my convention schedule is at it's peak during march-aug so I definitely think most conventions do happen during the warm weather months! my schedule definitely looks MUCH more sparse throughout oct-jan (I'm lucky if I manage to land one event per month) so I definitely have to plan for the lack of the events in the later half of the year I personally don't vacuum seal as space usually isn't the primary problem when packing suitcases for travel (it's the 50lb weight limit on for checked bags on planes 🤧) I have thought about vacuum sealing when shipping out extra boxes though 🤣
when i did ALA in 23, it kinda felt like the hall was just too big for the amount of attendees, so money was just overall spread thin. even my friends that normally do very well at cons like AX and fanime, did terrible at ALA. though! i hear they are reducing the number of tables or have done so already this year, which makes me wanna apply again lol. because besides sales being hard to land, the con itself was fun and easy to set up in, so i would love to come back in hopes to earn more this time around XD
I personally did great at ALA both in 23 and 24 (but I know that my ALA experience tends to be an outlier amongst AA artists) I would encourage you to give it another shot (and maybe split a table if you want to be safe investment wise? prettyyy sure they allow table sharing but don't quote me on that 😅) But I do love ALA simply because it's such a fun con w/ the cosplay and ribbon culture there! Definitely plan on coming back next year ᵕ̈
Do cons not give you internet access? I'm so used to convention centers not having any stable phone connection as an attendee. I'm not sure how you'd manage being a vendor!
no they don't 😔 you have to pay if you want to use the convention wi-fi (and it's almost always pretty expensive) the only con I know that provides artist alley with free internet access is anime expo
I believe it started because attendees were putting stickers where they don't belong around the convention center, which led to the banning of stickers since the convention center was not happy about it 🫣
AHAHA I always hear it's a funny surprise whenever people see themselves pop up in the background of the vlog 🤣 hope the event was successful for you!! 🙌
That’s a lot of artist I attended a convention in Germany it had 700-1000+ artists. I agree with the space artists get as someone who has attended conventions I don’t understand why they make vendors isles big but the artist alley feels so congested I go early because that area gets packed later
wow that's a lot of artists 😳 and I agree, artist alley does tend to feel very cramped with little space in the aisle for attendees and also behind the table for vendors 😔
@@drawnbyivy it definitely is I don’t know how many went this year I think they had more applications as I’ve a friend from Europe who tabled there this year with a friend. It’s honestly sad 😔I suggested more room to the event I go to they added more space to vendors hall I’m come on people 😔
I loved seeing your booth there! It was so cute and it caught my eye all weekend, sadly i was unable to purchase anything but hopefully next year if you attend i can get something <3
This was the first convention I sold at so I was pretty shocked by all the walking, but other than that I had a good time. A lot of people didn't seem super happy with how large the vendor/aa hall was but I think it's going back to normal next year? I was told this year was a fluke with how booking ended up.
thanks for watching and congrats on your first convention! 🙌 the walking was definitely a shock since most conventions i've vended at don't have such a distance between the entrance and the artist alley hall. I can't imagine what the trek was like if you had bad knees or mobility issues ˙◠˙ glad to hear it's going back to normal next year! i think vendors and attendees alike preferred the previous location for artist alley 😵💫
Cool, so I wasn't the only one! I have attended Momocon for YEARS, but due to nerve damage to my legs, walking around half confused to where things were was a legit NIGHTMARE. Once I finally found artist alley I did not have a very good time walking around. I'm not 100% sure if it was because I had no idea which artists were vending this year (I looked all over the website and couldn't find any information on artists tables) but hopefully that does change next year, I missed a BUNCH of artists 😰
@@PrinceBaraButterfly so sorry to hear about your experience 😵💫 I definitely thought about how the layout (con + AA wise) must've made it hard for those with mobility issues ˙◠˙ hope they implement some changes next year to make it a more pleasant experience for vendors and attendees alike! also, if you're curious about to the artist list, you can find it here! 😊www.momocon.com/artists/
