Wondercon art cards, phase one: inking.: seanan

Wondercon art cards, phase one: inking.

So, in an effort to get people to stalk me -- I mean, ah, 'track me down' -- at Wondercon, I have declared that the first ten people to track me down and ask me about Rosemary and Rue will receive, gratis and on-the-spot, a specially drawn art card made entirely for the purpose of being given away to at-con, er, trackers.

Because I never work very well under 'you must do X by Y and PS don't screw it up' pressure, I decided the best way not to make this a crazy-making thing would be to do it entirely at random -- as in, just sit down, draw ten art cards, and whatever they turn out to be, that's what Wondercon gets. So I did. And the result was...

1. The Kitsune Girl from the Babylon Wood.
2. A very unhelpful turtle.
3. Toby, stark naked, in a pond, looking pissed.
4. Angie the centaur pirate (long, long story).
5. Bunny with an Electric Knights poster behind her.
6. The Rose-Owl from the Babylon Wood.
7. Cassie Hack from Hack/Slash.
8. Alice Healy with a nice cake.
9. Velveteen in her Junior Super Patriots yearbook picture.
10. A man-eating plant eating a human arm.

Don't worry if not all of those make sense to you -- they barely all make sense to me, and I drew them. Still, I think they're all pretty nifty, and I'll scan them in after I've had a chance to color them.

Life is good. Time to sleep.

kyrielle

February 15 2009, 06:38:22 UTC 8 years ago

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I'm glad they'll be scanned once complete, because wow do I especially wanna see #3. *grins*

seanan_mcguire

February 15 2009, 15:39:48 UTC 8 years ago

I'm very pleased with all of them, and the only way to encourage people to hunt me down in future is to make it entertaining. :)

February 15 2009, 18:26:59 UTC 8 years ago

Hunting you down is always entertaining, or almost (at least if it's done politely). I recall getting tackled once, which was cool and very startling (and probably entertaining for the folks around us).

Mmm. You mentioned stickers. Something to consider, given cons, is something that could stick to badges (little ribbons or something) or pins of some type. I think those are harder to manage than stickers, tho (and more expensive). (Stickers will, of course, work with some badges, but IMX usually obscure something.)

...random thought. You may want to see if it's worth it to open a CafePress shop (or other, similar service). I'm not sure what the costs, etc., are for that, tho. The postcard pic in particular, among the ones so far, would be great for that. Viral marketing? People walking around in t-shirts and hats advertising your book is definitely likely to put it in front of even some folks they don't talk to.

February 22 2009, 19:21:16 UTC 8 years ago

I'm considering ordering some ribbons -- they're a big deal at BayCon every year -- and maybe doing some postcards. The main problem with doing CafePress and such is the risk of annoying my publisher. See, I just need Hot Topic to decide that I need to be a product line...

February 22 2009, 19:32:44 UTC 8 years ago

Point, that. Is it worth asking what they think of the idea?

February 22 2009, 19:57:52 UTC 8 years ago

Not until the first book is out, and we can begin to see what kind of a response it's getting. There's this fine line between 'selling yourself' and 'becoming annoying' that has to be walked.

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