»Try putting aside the thought of "failure". If you can do that... All the things you have learned since then, along with this piece will become your strength.«
It's time again the Con Season had a little break during July for me but the next 4 cons are all within the next 2 months. Starting with the NipponCon (Bremen) here.
To say it upfront: I just attended for 1 day and there were several complications, if you are interested please read further.
You might have noticed that I changed my Line up for the Convention inbetween my first idea was going for the Prisoner Outfit but then someone asked to partner up with me and I agreed and I changed my plans accordingly. Well...
... I got later on told that the person forgot to get the day off and was back to being alone. So I went with my original plan. (Just to later get told again that they will INDEED attend and I was not considering changing my plans AGAIN as there was more to it, I don't want to get into details here). Just a reminder here are the two artworks I did for the Line up.
The week before the Con was exhausting and I got my summer depression back and then my afab body decided it's shark time, so I was about to cancel the whole con. But then decided to push myself to attend as I needed to get out.
Travel time was about 2 hours with me needing 1 hour to the highway and then another to arrive at the destination but ... they had blocked a part of the highway and I needed 1 hour to get through a 10 minute distance T_T my mood was at the bottom I felt awful at this point but I didn't want to go back as I had sold a thing and wanted to meet the buyer at the con to hand the goods over.
Finally arrived I put make up on and headed to the convention. As you can see I went with the prisoner outfit as it was supposed to quite warm and I especially made the feathered Innocence prop for this convention to go with my artwork I did for the Line up.
I didn't take es many photos of the location this time but to give you an impression. The Con is small big bigger in regards of artists and vedors compared to the HanaCon and NisaCon. You had commercial vendors spread over 3 level and then 3 rooms for artists. Then two stages (one was outdoor), games room, an Anime Room, workshop rooms, a Maid Café and I think that covered it all.
The asortment of artists was nice but I didn't buy a thing, as said I wasn't feeling well and just hoped to avoid a few issues here and find my buyer. Other than that I had planned to visit the Maid Café as I never did and they had a "English Teatime" on the menu and I wanted to try that.
It took a while until you were seated, you got a number and were asked to come back later. I took the time to snack and take a few pics from the other side of the location.
Later on I finally got a seat in the Café and shared my table with 3 other people as I was alone. Two were guys who were regulars at the con I tried to involve them into some small talk (I am so bad at this and being the most extroverted at the table was surely super weird for me) they sometimes replied, the third person didn't, I hope they still enjoyed their cake.
The portions were small but delicious. The Tea Time included Sandwiches (Cream Cheese/Cucumber), Scones, Lemon Curd/Butter, Shortbread, Matcha Muffins and a pot of tea (I went with Earl Grey).
One of the maids recognized me as Allen Walker which was super cool. And I found Alice and Mika to hand Alice the Magazine I sold them, we talked a bit about the newest DGM Chapter, it's always a joy to meet them again.
My personal highlight then was meeting a Lenalee and meeting Loki again - who you might remember from the Bookfair, HanaCon AND NisaCon! She was Cross at the Bookfair, Valentino at the HanaCon and did enter the Cosplay Contest at the NisaCon as well. We had such a nice time together I really really enjoyed it. I even stayed way longer than intended because we went to a café together and it was just so nice to be around for friendly people again, this made my day.
Here is the pastry I got myself at the café and the beautiful little moths I got from Loki ;w; LOOK AT THEM.
I headed home around 16:30, scrubbed the make up off my face and went on the long drive. I did get home without many issues on the road but damn i got cramps from hell during the last 40 minutes and it knocked me out the next day as I just felt pain and wanted to sleep.
So I am glad I met wonderful people again, I had nice food but damn nature is a beast. I am gladly now over the pain and cramps and am looking forward to the next Convention which will be the Connichi with 3 days of Cosplay. Whoop.
Hey it's a recent drawing, just finished on Saturday.
aaand.... it's... my ...
Con Line up for NipponCon <3
I will attend only one day and as I got a cosplay partner (GASP) this time we tried to get our outfits matching. KandaxMusa will be my Kanda for the day and we will do the casual(ish) variants the characters had for the Attack of the HQ.
... i actually never did Allen casually on a con, like yeah under all those layers but never *just like that*. I had planned it for the NiSaCon but then went with Crown Clown.
I don't need reasons to draw Allen but it I take any. haha.
I just realized that I never posted any pics of my Abby Sciuto cosplay when I visited NipponCon in Vienna.
So yeah this is it XD I cut and styled the pig tails of the wig (and realized I should have done the bangs too once I put it on for the con *dang*) and added the ID in comparison to the last time wearing it. Also different shirt and skirt this time around, only bc I have enough clothes to wary the outfit XD it’s all bought together so there’s no sewing on my side done.
I still love wearing my Abby so much and I had some great encounters while being her. My fav was when Captain Jack Sparrow came up to me and proudly showed me his gun ^^ But once again the con was great fun, so many friendly faces.
Auch in diesem Jahr konnte ich die NipponCon im Gustav-Heinemann-Bürgerhaus in Vegesack wieder besuchen. Diesmal am Sonntag.
Die NipponCon ist eine Convention fuer Anime, Manga & Japan Begeisterte. Dort versammeln sich viele Fans der oben genannten Bereiche, um Gleichgesinnte zu treffen, aber auch um das Convention Programm zu geniessen.
In diesem Jahr habe ich viele Fotos gemacht. Vielen Dank…
