#artist alley application

[kvvkee]

marcille sticker / keychain :) building portfolio for artist alley!!!!!!!

[wizard-legs]

Recently I spent a solid chunk of time applying to a zine that I didn’t get into and I’m a little sad about it! SO I doodled this thumbnail for a piece I might’ve done for the zine to kind of get over it lol

[melonalemonade]

Gonna post this here too because I’m desperate 😔 man I just wanna go to dokomi

Reposts are greatly appreciated <3

[howtobeaconartist]

How extensive of a portfolio should I have to apply for a convention?

Ex: I make keychains, standees, stickers, and prints. Should I prioritize one item over another in my portfolio or will that hurt my chances of being accepted?

Kiriska: This may depend on the con, so you'll probably need to do some research and potentially prepare different portfolios for different events.

Some just want to see the quality of your art and don't necessarily care if you're putting your art on prints or a standee. In these cases, it doesn't really matter if you want to show a wide variety of products or not.

Some want to know exactly what types of products you have, but don't care about the variety or breadth.

Some shows favour some product types over others, so you may want to only show products they're looking for.

And so on.

If you don't know that a show has any preference though, I would just default to showing examples of your art (not necessarily the final products) and include a photo of a past table, which should give the con an idea of your final products without throwing them into as much focus.

[cosmodynes]

working on an emet-selch print

(full timelapse video for knife carby club ko-fi members next week)

[appeltjesgroen]

New sticker: Current state of Artist Alleys in Europe 💦

[pemprika]

i'd love for you to table at anime boston this year if that's possible ;o;

thanks for wanting me there! i don't think i'll be able to do anime boston 2023 since the apps had already closed (?) i'll be more attentive with the apps for animeboston 2024 ^_^

[derpycon]

Our exhibitor applications open on Monday! We are only opening to the first 250 submissions so make sure you act fast once they do go up!

[citrusbirb]

I'm upset that my artist alley application to Otakon 2024 came up as 'non-existent' so now I gotta be careful when applying next year.

[bayconnews]

New to BayCon this year: applications for Artist Alley are now live!

New to BayCon! The Artist Alley is a venue for amateur and young professional artists to promote and sell their original artwork. It will border the dealer room and is adjoined to the Art Gallery. The Artist Alley is on a “first-come first-served” basis. 

Please Note: The Art Gallery (formerly the BayCon Art Show) is no longer open to general applications and is now invite only,

Interested? Fill out the application.

DEALERS ROOM: The Dealers room is now accepting applications. The deadline for dealers applications is April 30, 2024. Accepted dealers are notified within two weeks of the receipt of application. Please note that to be a dealer you must have a valid California Seller’s Permit.

[wildwildwestcon]

Reminder for your Monday: all our applications to get involved with #WWWC11 are live!

If you haven't yet put in your application(s) to vend, volunteer, present a panel, or teach a workshop--do it today!

You can find links for each application here: https://www.wildwestcon.com/getinvolved/

Remember to stay tuned here and to all our socials for updates, news, #AndAllThatSteam!

[sahcon]

📢Official Stuck at Home Con 2024 announcement mega-thread!

SAHCon will be happening this year on July 20th, 2024, with the Friday Showcase on July 19th!

Links to applications for everything below!

Panelist Applications: https://forms.gle/AatVQ1HmxH2qdoaL7

Friday Showcase: https://forms.gle/vCFULiamEYoqd3Dv6

Artist Alley: https://forms.gle/EGpfzGHatK8Q6oLZ8

Deadlines for all applications are May 17th, 2024 at 11:59 pm Eastern time!

Note that this is just the deadline to APPLY - you don't have to have everything done for the showcase or your panel by then!

We'll be posting more announcements about guests, events, and more as we get closer to SAHCon!

[piosplayhouse]

Shi Qingxuan had a pair of blinged out designer cat ears and a slinky dress because they're a really supportive friend but didn't totally follow Xie Lian's explanation that a furry convention was slightly different from a themed costume party.

You're 1000000% correct and please forgive me for springboarding off of this to peddle some hyperspecific bad furry au headcanons:

Sqx: as you said, doesn't really understand what a furry is or what they do. Despite that, has a toyhouse account with thousands of followers on it that her brother made for her. He only has one oc on it, which is an extremely expensive Dainty that his brother bought for him. Otherwise uses the site forums like a social media platform, but doesn't know how to navigate any other part of it (this is understandable if you're familiar with toyhouse). Somehow gained tons of friends and followers anyway, including

hx: her sona is an eel. He lurks the forums exclusively to report drama to hua cheng, who faithfully mass reports and harasses any user who talks badly about disgraced furry xie lian. She's a partial fursuiter (only has the head and paws (fins?)) because even though she made her own suit, hua cheng gave her the stipend to get the materials and he only allotted enough for a bare minimum partial. Yes, he has fucked sqx while wearing his fursuit, and she was really into it.

hua cheng: full fursuiter with 2 suits (San Lang and Hua Cheng) as stated before. He also has custom tailored robes to fit over his suits because he's dapper like that. Obsessively monitors every furry site across the internet to take down anyone spreading rumors about xie lian by using his thousands of sock puppet accounts. Spends more time in his suits than out of them, doesn't even show xie lian his real face until they meet again at Ghost City Furcon together. Full time simp, part time artist/fursuit maker/con owner. Xie Lian talked him down from a suicide attempt after seeing him make a concerning post on a forum, and hua cheng has been gone ever since. Had a bad phase in high school where he exclusively drew xie lian's sona, including one particularly embarrassing self insert NSFW piece of him.

xie lian: full fursuiter BUT regularly takes off his suit head in public for any reason (note: for furries this is considered really weird and somewhat taboo). I've already talked about him quite a bit so I'll keep it brief, but he was blacklisted from the All Furries Go to Heaven Furcon twice despite being a very involved volunteer in the early days of the con. Despite this, somehow in the year 20XX an unknowing green volunteer finds his old artist alley application shoved in a drawer somewhere and calls him up to attend the con again for the first time in decades.

Feng xin and mu qing: THEY DONT HAVE THE SAME FURSUIT OK! Just because they accidentally commissioned the same maker and their suits are like color swapped versions of each other doesn't mean they wanted to match at all in fact mq's sona is a cat and fx's is a dog but the maker they hired makes their dog and cat suits look pretty much the same so that's how it turned out that way and

[kollyart]

I finished them!! And I’m planning to make stickers out of them so ugly watermarks yesss

Also I’m not planning to sell them worldwide.. because of the payment issues in my country.. so um I’ll make them free to print whenever I’ll figure out my plans on submitting an application to the local artist alley ✌️ (probably in early autumn)

(Please someone remind me in autumn if I forget because nothing stays in my head for too long)

[howtobeaconartist]

When is the best time of the year to check for booth applications?

Kiriska: Depends on the show.

I'd recommend specifically researching the typical application time for each con you want to apply to. Some shows have apps open really early. Some have them really late. Some fluctuate a lot between years. Ask around or see if the con's website has app dates from prior years, or an estimate for the upcoming year.

If you've got your eyes on a lot of shows, I recommend making a spreadsheet with all of the pertinent info and setting reminders as necessary, especially if you know it's a competitive show.

Some cons are notoriously bad about announcing when applications are open and require you constantly stalk their website or social media updates. It's a pain!

For years I had recurring calendar reminders to check Specific Con's website every week from basically October and onward, because they never announced apps on social and they historically opened apps sometime between October and December. I think these days, most shows try a little harder to keep artists informed, but some still aren't great!

[terrorcamp]

Calling all artists!

If you’re a creative making work that engages with polar themes, we want YOU for our Artists’ Alley!

❄️ Apply now

Every year, we feature artists working in all mediums on the Terror Camp website and in our Discord, giving you the opportunity to sell your wares to our audience of attendees.

You don’t need to be a visual artist – novel writers, crafters, and other creatives are all welcome! All you need is a virtual storefront that’s live by Dec 1st, 2024.

Don’t have a storefront, but still want to get involved? This year, we’re also looking for artists to design exclusive Terror Camp merch for our official Redbubble store!

Applications close on September 1st.

(Questions? Ask here, or email us at artists @ terror.camp!)