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EF25 afterglow
6 years ago
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Holy crudsicles, more than a year without update?! Time flies...
So EF25 happened, and it was awesome. I love to meet people and talk with them about the trade, their views on the trade, and meet the faces behind the on-line messages, and meet artists that I look up to.
Arrived in Berlin with Dktorzi and RinTheDragon. Not at the Estrel unfortunately this time (I'll spare you the drama). Met up with my roommates DutchTheW0lf, Christophe, SoulSylver and room frequenter, Kuroi-ashi. It felt weird at first being almost twice their age and sharing a room, but quickly got along with all of them, shitposting in the Roomies Telegram chat. Let's do this again next time?
Didn't attend a whole lot of workshops, but the artist lounge was where it was at! Got to talk with a lot of artists, exchange perspectives, and do a couple of art trades. It was heartwarming to receive so much positive feedback on my drawing, even though it's to this date still unfinished (more on that later).
One person in particular made my day, when we got to talk after his positive remark. It took me a minute to figure out I was speaking with o-kemono, an artist whose motivational art and cute characters I much appreciate. Like meeting an idol, I may have acted like a freaking dork once I found out, for which I apologize. It was a pleasure to talk with him about his art and his motivations, draw alongside with him and have general good cheer.
I also got to meet up with DaiGaijin again, who I commissioned a kick-ass sketch from my newly made character Mridula (scrap post from her later) from. I hope he'll let me upload that sketch because I freaking love it. Also bought the two FFC manga, got to see him work on the FFC comic pages, and talk about the creation of these pages. The speed at which he crafts these pages is mind-boggling, and not something I could ever replicate. It was a genuine blast to jam with him.
Met up with some familiar faces like CrazyKing_Xavos, Syntech, TaniDraws, Lightnymfa, pegla, and got in touch with some new faces, like Jack_Lehn, Karakina, and Faolan. Good to see them back at the convention, and jam with them, accompanied with the mindless banter (Dutch Furry Table FTW!).
The drawing for the charity auction is however, unfortunately still unfinished, mostly due to my dilly-dallying, and artist frustrations. I'm sort of ashamed of it, as I had all the opportunity to finish it, but I was sulking and moping about mistakes for too long a time. I still feel I lack some fundamentals with anatomy, and wanting to get things right too quickly. Silver lining though, the sketch I submitted of the drawing earned the charity 80 EUR, a good price for a sketch. I even got to talk to the bidder at his request, and he praised the detail and effort into that sketch. Had a real good chat with him, was fascinated about the stories he could tell me. Good sir, if you're ever at Eurofurence again, please feel free to stop by me again, really loved the NASA cat story.
That's about it for the con report, I will endeavour to be a little more communicative with journals and drawing updates. For now, I wish you all a good day and I hope to meet you at the next convention!
CM ~
So EF25 happened, and it was awesome. I love to meet people and talk with them about the trade, their views on the trade, and meet the faces behind the on-line messages, and meet artists that I look up to.
Arrived in Berlin with Dktorzi and RinTheDragon. Not at the Estrel unfortunately this time (I'll spare you the drama). Met up with my roommates DutchTheW0lf, Christophe, SoulSylver and room frequenter, Kuroi-ashi. It felt weird at first being almost twice their age and sharing a room, but quickly got along with all of them, shitposting in the Roomies Telegram chat. Let's do this again next time?
Didn't attend a whole lot of workshops, but the artist lounge was where it was at! Got to talk with a lot of artists, exchange perspectives, and do a couple of art trades. It was heartwarming to receive so much positive feedback on my drawing, even though it's to this date still unfinished (more on that later).
One person in particular made my day, when we got to talk after his positive remark. It took me a minute to figure out I was speaking with o-kemono, an artist whose motivational art and cute characters I much appreciate. Like meeting an idol, I may have acted like a freaking dork once I found out, for which I apologize. It was a pleasure to talk with him about his art and his motivations, draw alongside with him and have general good cheer.
I also got to meet up with DaiGaijin again, who I commissioned a kick-ass sketch from my newly made character Mridula (scrap post from her later) from. I hope he'll let me upload that sketch because I freaking love it. Also bought the two FFC manga, got to see him work on the FFC comic pages, and talk about the creation of these pages. The speed at which he crafts these pages is mind-boggling, and not something I could ever replicate. It was a genuine blast to jam with him.
Met up with some familiar faces like CrazyKing_Xavos, Syntech, TaniDraws, Lightnymfa, pegla, and got in touch with some new faces, like Jack_Lehn, Karakina, and Faolan. Good to see them back at the convention, and jam with them, accompanied with the mindless banter (Dutch Furry Table FTW!).
The drawing for the charity auction is however, unfortunately still unfinished, mostly due to my dilly-dallying, and artist frustrations. I'm sort of ashamed of it, as I had all the opportunity to finish it, but I was sulking and moping about mistakes for too long a time. I still feel I lack some fundamentals with anatomy, and wanting to get things right too quickly. Silver lining though, the sketch I submitted of the drawing earned the charity 80 EUR, a good price for a sketch. I even got to talk to the bidder at his request, and he praised the detail and effort into that sketch. Had a real good chat with him, was fascinated about the stories he could tell me. Good sir, if you're ever at Eurofurence again, please feel free to stop by me again, really loved the NASA cat story.
That's about it for the con report, I will endeavour to be a little more communicative with journals and drawing updates. For now, I wish you all a good day and I hope to meet you at the next convention!
CM ~
CM ~
For now i am glad to have made your aquaintance and can see what sprouts out of this.
JL~ =3
So I can't recommend EF, and by my extension, its artist lounge enough. If you intend to go, I hope to see you there soon!
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Just wanna say it was a beautiful experience for me to have the chance meeting you and the other guys again, and spend more time with you than last year, when I was more trying to dip into the feeling of how a con is working.
Sitting around in a circle of artists, just drawing and talk about art or whatever comes to mind is definitely something special, and I´ll hold these moments dear to my heart whenever I feel like being in a slump.
Looking so forward to our next meeting and exchanging what we´ve done till then!
# don't worry, when the sketch is little more presentable, I'll put a scan on-line.
CM ~
CM ~