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Applying to conventions!!

Submitted 10 panels between two conventions for the summer! I’m curious to know if I get into both and if so with what panels?

So I’ll leave some info hear and loop back in a few months.

MagWest

- History in the road to El Dorado (since I can talk about music)

- Geography in Pokemon generations 1-4 (because game)

- Geography in Pokemon generations 5-10 (because game)

- Poorly Drawn Pokemon (testing out as a pane instead of a surprise set up)

GalaxyCon

- the previously listed 4

- History in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (because I’ve updated based on questions I kept getting)

- History in Proco Rosso (new panel!)

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Can I say I went to Italy for research?

I didn’t but it was educational nonetheless!

Teaching myself procreate and digital art. Cant stop drawing this bird!

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Browt x spirited away

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Happy 30th pokemon.

I poorly drew the upcoming starters!

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Played a game and now designing ribbons to accompany the upcoming cosplay 👀

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Art is a process!

Working on a little card mock up to up the Poorly drawn Pokemon game! Hoping to create a more authentic experience for folks!!

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Lucid thoughts after completing Poorly Drawn Pokemon.

SacAnime set a super high bar for a wonderful interaction. I was easily able to claim a table to set up Poorly Drawn Pokemon and for 3 hours I was drawing, talking to people and watching people make art! Could not have been more successful! I’m also very happy that some people swung by for 30 seconds to claim a card which some stayed for over an hour to draw and chat!!

Makes me very excited to do this again at another convention this year!!

With that in mind…I need to improve something’s! Namely the cards! I want to design and get printed custom trading cards to make the experience result in a more authentic and “professional” looking card. Possibly with my info in the back to maximize room to drawn and for artists to sign their work on the front.

So stay tuned for that endeavor!!!

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Soft launch on my next panel 👀👀👀

History in Porco Rosso!! Get hyped!

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Some days you just gotta put stickers on your car so you can actually find it in a parking lot.

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History in Princess Mononoke panel Instagram highlights

All designed by me!!

Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eAPHymGCOJt_6SVWjLF52DFUbRmxc7oKtVsyg1c2y9c/edit?usp=sharing

Works Cited https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oV58JjSZtXMjs5HFPfgyRg4KQbQczHKEVAtBM1_zXQk/edit?usp=sharing

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History in Fullmetal Alchemist Instagram highlights

Links!

Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DDVinG3tmLhmfiy1zmuYtXgklAJSR6dRLn0IANp8hpQ/edit?usp=sharing

Works Cited https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wzvWjURTVuEMkFPQVJKf001q49L2VaeYIq_BYmonwkA/edit?usp=sharing

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3liza

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

3liza

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

applesforhela

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period. And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono. It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back. Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy. There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look. Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress. Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again. But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on. The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it. The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

nonasuch

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco: