Fanexpo, monsters and old superheroes

[secondlina]

Some of the cutesy drawings, and my sign! Lady with a plasma gun. What's not to love? People at the con had mad tats. The prize for the best Astrid goes to this girl. Our table with Adriana, my favorite caramel beauty full of fluffy loveliness. Lots of people dressed as these two. Love it. Sarcastic Chiseri would move all over the place. Look! I,m actually working. :D And the prize for Best Dressed Namesake fan goes to THIS GIRL. Who let me hold her umbrella. I had this Batman drawing as one of my "cutesy drawings" sample. Everyone wanted to buy it. So I re-drew Batman like 20 times. SEE???? A minion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Small but fancy. This group was adorable. they were a group of international friends working on a story together. They asked me to draw their characters. It was lovely. Some of their characters were a lesbian couple. Very cute! Obligatory Doctor. Also, there was a Burlesque Star Wars show. FOR REALS. Potter tragic couples. Award for the best Ginny goes to this chick. Award for best Gender-bender. APPA APPA YAY! Ron and Hermione. D'aaaaw. Another sample I ended up giving to an artist I loved. Namesake characters, as drawn by the fantastic Katie Cook. And finally, a Link.

Hey guys! I'm back! Sorry for not posting while I was gone. The hotel charged us something like 40$ per night for the internet. It was outrageous. I was gone to Fanexpo up to monday at 3am. It was fun. Met cool people, got to meet Jeff Smith, got a portfolio evaluation from Marvel and got a really cool book about period costumes. We met a couple of Namesake fans who, I swear, have the best costumes, including a Tardis Lolita.

We didn't sell that many books, unfortunately. I think this con was more for small, cute commercial goods. Which is why, on the second day, I was struck with a stroke of genius, and started offering cutesy 5-minute-directly-in-ink-whatever-you-want-as-long-as-I-know-what-it-is-or-you-have-a-reference for 2$ drawings. Those were really popular, easy and fun. We sold a lot. I'll post a couple of the ones I did in the photos below. Be warned, I was asked to draw a lot of Harry Potter.

I drew a LOT LOT LOOOT more. These are just my favorites.

When I got home, I had to work my butt off to finish the Womantology pages in two days. I just got that done. Whew. A break.

Finally. In other news, you guys may have heard me gushing about the upcoming movie "A Monster in Paris". Well, good news. The movie is getting an English release. The dubbing seems really good, and i,m happy they kept Vanessa Paradis as the voice actress for the songstress in both languages. This means that we are getting a cool French animated movie overseas and that, living in Québec, I get to choose between the French original or the dub. Yaaay!

The english commercial is so different from the French, it weirds me out. In the French we learn that : Paris is under water. The monster is a bug grown huge by mistake by the male protagonists. The bug and the songstress sing together. Pretty songs are sung. The police dude wants to kill the monster, who is in fact, nice. A wild hot air balloon chase follows.

The english trailer : funny people, funny people, MONKEY MONKEY LOOK A MONKEY, funny people, animosity which is obviously love, background music and hey, by the way, there might be a monster in there. Behold, the difference.

Well, that's all for now.

- Isa

Comments

[sendhimaway.livejournal.com]

Awhh! This looks like a lot of fun,
you guys are so cute. <3

& your drawings are adorable! So jellyyyy.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

You could draw some too!

Of Loki :P

[sendhimaway.livejournal.com]

Omg! I want to draw cute little Avenger cats ok.