Spokane Otaku-Con 2010

Spokane Otaku-Con 2010

I was a dealer at this years Otaku-Con! It's local Spokane Washington anime convention. This is it's second year. This year there many more attendants than last year, but the con is still fairly small. I think about 500 people came this year. The shots above are my table display.

This year was lots of fun. I can't say much about the events of the con, but I had fun chatting with people who stop by my table. I wouldn't recommend this convention to anyone living outside of Spokane yet. It's still very disorganized. Everything seem to be done last minute. I expect the same thing will happen next year as well. But if you're a anime nerd with a group of friends who mostly want to cosplay and hung out this is the place to be.

So things that happened. I got to talk to a lot of people about my coloring process. I did a art trade with a girl who was also a dealer at the con. Lots of people ask me how old I was and if I was in high school. They seemed disappointed when I said no. I think they wanted to prise me for being young and talented. But no I'm too old for that I guess....

I got upset over only one matter. A man with a camera kept coming around taking videos of my work even after I said to stop. He didn't understand why I wouldn't want this. Next time this happens I won't be as kind.

At the end of Saturday I had a interesting conversation with a mother. She was helping her daughter sell her art at a table. She must have been in high school I think. She wasn't selling too well. I felt pretty bad as I told her that the next day I expected things wouldn't get better. Last days of small conventions don't do well. You don't have that rest of people spending money before they leave like at Sakura Con. For small conventions they just don't come. And I was right. At the same time it maybe me feel pretty good because I wasn't very close to her daughters table which means she must have thought I knew what I was doing and would be able to answer her questions to pick me.

The last memorable thing was a grandmother taking her granddaughter around the dealers hall. The grandparent came back to my table toward the end of Saturday and told me she really appreciated my work because it was so happy. I thought that was cute and made my day.

Sunday I only was there from 10 till maybe 2pm. I caught the last rush and booked it. Over all I did very well at the convention and want to do it next year.