Here and There and Back Again

JAFAX is over -- the event was a great success!  Once again our attendee numbers crossed over the threshold of three thousand people!  The biggest fear of the JAFAX staff now is that in a few years, we will be much too large for Grand Valley State University campus!!

With that done and over with and life returning back to normal-ish (as normal as my life ever gets), free time has been restored to me ... which means art time!

And I have bad news and good news.  I'll start with the bad news first because I much rather end this little post on an up swing.

Bad News.  I have no promised tee shirts from JAFAX with the mascot design that I drew to do a give-away with on my blog.  Sadness.

Good News.  I have no promised tee shirts from JAFAX because my design SOLD OUT!  I believe we ordered some where around 260 (which is the most we have ordered before) and they are ALL GONE!  I am the second ever JAFAX tee shirt artist to sell out.  The only other is our guest Doug Smith who is a fairly well known and popular artist in the anime con circle.  Who would have thought!  My art is marketable!

JAFAX Mascot Concepts -- Round One!

The idea of using a squirrel in the mix was brought up from old, old emails that Ariah used to write for OnA once upon a time. I loved the idea so much, I hit the ground running with it. This is the first set of sketches thus far. I like the idea of using the name Apple for her and using the fruit on her clothing as a Michigan tie-in since that's the location of the event.