You may not remember me, but I was the fellow with my wife that geeked out when I saw your booth at the Seattle Comicon. I follow your RU-vid show; i`m learning how to better shade my illustrations. Awesome work and a pleasure meeting you both. Thanks for tips on how to setup a booth, maybe at next years Comicon. Hope i didn`t startle you two.
Had a great time meeting you at ECCC, glad to see you enjoyed yourself. hope to catch you again next year, next year I plan on buying a print of Lulu and Trist.
I'm assuming here... I think most people who're frustrated at art are very young. I'm on my early 30s and I'm not frustrated at my art even when I was on hiatus during college years. Even then, I was quite OK with the way my art was going. I guess I started art early in life that I progress slowly over the years, so there's definitely truth in what you are saying, Kienan! Love your happy-go-lucky attitude! Thanks for the tips! I'll participate for the first time on a con artist next month, so the info you gave here is very helpful.
it was awesome meeting you at ECCC ^_^ thank you for the zombie dog mini print! also i'm really glad that you made this video xD i shall share this around hehehe
Great advice, I couldn't agree more about your statement about artists providing bags for prints. I've seen so many other artists at conventions just hand over large prints with no bag, and the customer ends up bending it! I usually offer them a free bag for their bagless prints if they are purchasing something from me lol.
Discovered your channel and It's such a gem, thank you so so much for the wealth of knowledge. You haven't uploaded in a while, hope you're doing fine, much love!💕💕💕💕
KIENAN! You should have an online store for your prints! I'd love to get some of them, but it's super difficult for someone who loves in Europe, for example! 💦💦💦 Please consider it!!
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YES PLEASE!!! Live in Sweden and I need that print of the girl that plays videogames!
Your art is really fun to look at, mate. And you give really comprehensive information in this vid. I'm tabling at my first convention in January! Woot!
Thank you so much for showing all this, especially the printing details. I've always been confused about the sizes, and how the different scaling might ruin things.
How many copies of each print do you recommend someone brings for their first con? How many different prints should someone bring? I'm trying to find a good quantity to bring so that I don't sell out too quickly and also don't have way too much left over, but I have no idea where to start since I've never been before.
would like to here how you pitch your originals. I've taken a break from cons but thinking of hosting panels instead as it's less competitive to get into
Funny that you say people aren't looking down. I'm doing artist alleys here in Denmark and what I have noticed is that people don't look up! So if you want people to look at your stuff at a danish artist alley, you should also have things laying on the table :) But I guess that different from place to place :p
38:00 You can dual (or double) major in software engineering and art of some type. It depends on what type of school you went to, and if you think you can handle the courseload. Typically with double majors, you do twice the work, its like you're earning two separate degrees at the same time, but people do successfully complete both programs. As for dual majors, many times people get complementary majors, like physics and math, or animation and fine art. Many of the classes overlap this way and you earn the degree faster. Not much will overlap in software engineering and say, digital art, but you can definitely talk with a guidance counselor to see what can be done about that.
hey Kienan, I had a question about one of your previous tutorials, the one with the animated storyboards. Is there a way to crop them easily to have them fully in the screen without having the animation hindered?
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you and what addtl advice have you learned that you would offer up today OR what tips did you give in this video that you would not omit or recommend against? Thank you again!
Do you think having a "monster binder" full of small card sized prints is a good idea to get people to see lots of prints very quickly. You could number each page of the binder and bring a box and potentially sell 360 different prints at your table even though you only have space to display a dozen in full size on the table. It also gives you 360 chances to spike their interest over the 1 minute they spend flipping through the 40 pages of art cards. I'm not sure how much room 360 different prints would take up times 10 prints each, 3600 copies. I look at my sketchbooks that are 100 pages big, I can see it possible to bring 36 sketchbooks in a box or two. 360 different prints would cost a ton of money so you better have a good reason for wanting that many options. I bet if Kienan did like all 135 LoL champions with 2-3 splashes of each with them in alphabetical order in the binder that would be a godly table or should i say "legendary" table. =)
Man my first con went really badly (3 years ago), I didn't even break even for all the prints and stuff. The table was only £15, and I made £30. It was p sad
Ultron.AI I suggest you to check out Alphonso Dunn channel, he mainly do his videos about ink drawing techniques or fundamentals. Well it's a bit diffirent from what you could see here, but imo it is 1 of the best art channels i found. Not an advertisement lel
