Sunday, July 27, 2008

Doujin Overload

Yesterday was the Doujin Overload event, its an anime convention held near where I live. It was my first time participating in one of these events as an artist. I have to say it was an awesome experience and I had loads of fun throughout the day.

I participated this year's event with a group of friends, and together we named our group "Nexus VII" and made an artbook called "Sushi" composing of all our artwork. We sold these books with 7 different covers to choose from. I also sold some of my own individual stuff. A few posters and bookmarks.

Although the books were far from selling out, and I made some losses on the books, my posters and bookmarks broke even for my loss on the books, and I actually made a profit at the end. I guess my lesson for next year is...to prepare more stock, as I ran out of posters quite fast and had to restock about an hour into the event...

I made some bookmarks and A3 posters(the photos below are A4, but on the day I had them in A3) for sale at the event.I took part in a few pages of an artbook, and designed one of the covers(there were 7 variations).


-Heres some photos of what my friends and I were selling at the time.


-Nexus VII artbooks! Each group member was to make a unique cover for the book.
I did the middle cover within these 3, theres 4 others but I don't have them with me :(
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-I also made a set of Soul Eater bookmarks to sell :D

-And some posters I sold in A3

-And heres some photos from the event that I took(Except the first one, Kody from Hiyaku Studio took the one with me in it :P ):
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-First 5 photos are of my group and myself XD; Actually... I only appear in like the first photo lol, so ghostly.



Heres photos of some figurines on display that I really wanted :(

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

looked like a pretty cool event dude. :) - great to hear your work was so well received.

From the photos I saw, I reckon Nexus VII had the better art than the others at the event.