yers and people. I sold three pieces of art that I had finished and took to ACen with me. At the right here, you can see one of them. It's Vaughn and Cassandra, entitled "These Ribbons Tie You to Me", took approximately 10-12 hours to complete, and it sold for $30 at ACen, purchased by Rob, from the UK who was staying in the same hotel room. He paid me $30 for it, when I only asked $25. He said it was because I was undercharging everything and was selling myself short. I know that I was, I know that I did, during the whole con, because the stuff I brought was all original characters that no one knew. I
also sold the original of the one now at the right, to another artist there at Artist Alley, named Chad Carlson, who had originally come over to give me a drawing of me that I had commissioned him for. Since the character I was cosplaying is obviously so obscure, and I didn't think to bring my Godchild manga, I just had him draw me in my brocade dress. Anyway, he was in Artist Alley at ACen, on the other end, almost straight across from where I was sitting, and he came over to give me the drawing and asked me how it was going. Friday was super-slow, I had had one portrait-commission earlier that day and that was it. This was because the printers had apparently exploded (possibly literally) and so it was painstakingly difficult to get through Registration and Pre-Registration. So thankfully the flow of people was slow the first day and I wasn't swamped. But I also wasn't making much money. But anyways, he pointed to this one and said "How much for it?" I thought about it, knowing that today had been slow for everyone, and knowing that all artists are really starving that first day, I said "For you, $10. You get the starving artist discount." Thus beginning the use of the "Starving Artist Discount". I'll explain that in a moment. I did another one of this, using some new copic markers on smaller paper, and sold it for $8.
This piece was entitled "Kitty Hat", done in watercolor, ink, and lots and 
lots of marker. It was a lot of fun to do, as the architecture of it was inspired by a place where I once lived. Anyways, it was purchased by Nathan, who became good friends with me at ACen, commissioning a piece of two original characters, one was his and one was his friend's, who he roleplays with. He told me about the story and who and what the characters were. I was proud of that commission when I was finished. I might redo it and resend it to him, just for the heck of it. He looked at another drawing I had done right there at the table and said "How much for you to take this drawing and turn it into a comic book?" I blinked at him a little bit and chuckled, thinking about it for a bit before I said "$40." He smiled and said "Deal. On one condition--you have to give it to me at next year's ACen. If it's not finished, you will owe me one free commission." I accepted the deal, with only one question. "What if I can't make it next year?" His expression told me that he hadn't thought about that. He said "Well, you have my email, so we'll keep in touch and see what happens between now and then."
This is the drawing 
that Nathan looked at and asked me to make a comic of. It's one of my androgynousy boys, who is kinda curtsying femininely, wearing a shirt that said "I am a BOY". The text ont he side says "I amuse myself at your expense." I liked this drawing, because it was just fun to do. Dorian, that's the character's name, is a cat-boy, for about two weeks after his birthday, which means he has a cat's tail and ears for a short time. I did another one, and it didn't occur to me to take a picture until after I'd long sold it. It was also of Dorian, but he was holding his tail looking up with a speech bubble that said "But I'm not cosplaying..." and I scrawled at the bottom "The Problem with being a REAL Cat-boy." I just thought it was cute.
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