Back from DragonCon 2010

Back home from DragonCon and oh what a year it has been! Within the first few hours, I met many cool folks from around the net, including a number of awesome folks from DeviantART. Plus countless old and new friends who stopped by just to say hello and offer their support. It made me feel so special to see the world so small and interconnected. It also gave me a warm feeling to see familiar faces from previous conventions I attended this year show up at DragonCon, which almost made it feel like a reunion.

I also met the model for my image, Night Blooming, and was able to give him a print of the picture he inspired. How surreal it was to see him posing before me!  It was wonderful to meet a few local faces, including Lindsay Archer and Annie Stegg. I sense an artsy meetup in our near futures!

Saturday I hosted the Monster in an Hour panel where SHARKTOPUS stole the show!  Many thanks go out to our participating artists who somehow managed to do something with the word prompts Pudding, Facial Hair, Saturn, and Big Feet.  We raised $40 for charity with the sketches, which is always a good thing!  I was plenty nervous hosting a panel for the first time ever as an announcer, so thanks to all the chatty folks in the audience who helped to make my job easier.  Topics of discussion included favorite zombie-slaying weapons, sparkly vs eat-your-face vampires, and other such tidbits of wisdom.

The highlight of my experience at this year’s DragonCon had to be meeting David Mack and Joseph Michael Linsner again this year. I’ve met them before, but always try to drop by to say hello each year.  This year, I gifted Joe with a leather mask I made based on his paintings of Dawn. He loved it so much, he offered to do a drawing in trade, despite my insistence that he didn’t have to. I’m so excited to see what he ends up doing for me!  As always, it was a pleasure to meet the very kind David Mack, who continues to inspire with his wonderful art and writing.

Ever since one of my biggest influences, Drew Hayes author of Poison Elves, passed away, I make it a point to go by and say hello.  I never got to do that with Drew, even though I had the chance, and I don’t plan to let those wonderful people who help to foster my creativity go without showing them how much I do appreciate them.

I left the con with a bunch of cool swag from Stephanie Pui Mun Law (Love love her new Dreamscapes book and my beautiful new tarot deck!) and a few new books from David Mack. I can’t wait to read The Alchemy and find out what’s happened in the time I’ve been away from the Kabuki-verse. I also picked up Joe’s latest Dawn story, Not to Touch the Earth, featuring a new tale of Dawn.  There’s just something even more special about being able to buy all of this stuff directly from the people who created them.

Finally, where would DragonCon be without a myriad of creative costumes to behold? You can see my public album for the few shots I captured whilst running around. I didn’t take many shots this year, but this wicked cool medieval Batman was definitely a highlight for me!

It was also a milestone as far as sales for me this year, but I will cover that in my next entry, as it seems this one has gotten a little long!  I’ve got two more weeks to recover before Anime Weekend Atlanta is upon us.  I think I’ll ride the sunbeams of inspiration until then. It’s been such a great weekend!  There’s nothing like being around so many like minds and artistic skill that gets my gears going for the rest of the year.

4 comments

  1. Anonymous says:

    Stephanie Pui Mun Law was there too?! I knew I should have gone this year! :cries: There were a few artists I would have liked to have met, including DA artists. My loss. I’m thinking of trying for a booth next year, we’ll see.

  2. Seth Fitts says:

    Stephanie Pui Mun Law was there too?! I should have gone! :cries:
    There were a few artists I wanted to meet, including DA artists, but I decided I shouldn’t spend the money… My loss.
    I may try for a booth there next year. We shall see. I’m glad Dragon-Con was good for you!

  3. Anonymous says:

    Okay…(I’ve tried this 3-4 times. I don’t know what was going wrong but here goes)
    Stephanie Pui Mun Law was there?! I knew I should have gone!!!
    There were a few artists there I wanted to meet in person, including DA artists, but I decided to not spend the money…. My loss.
    I’m thinking I might try for a booth next year. We hall see. I’m glad it went well for you!

    Seth

  4. Angela Sasser says:

    That you, Seth Fitts? You should be able to login with your Twitter or Gmail/Google account too, if that helps.:)

    And yes, you should come! I’m in the market for a booth buddy for the Exhibitor’s hall, if you’re feeling that brave! And also yes, there were many great artists there to meet and greet. That makes it worth the price tag of admission alone!

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