Lächeln und winken

So I was at the Comic Con...and it was exhausting. I'm still tired as hell!

On Saturday and Sunday I got up at about 6 am and then I was at the convention from about 7:30 am to 6 pm. I was sitting at my table almost all the time, so I didn't get to see much of what was going on, except for the other illustrators around me, who were presenting their own work.
I didn't know sitting could be that straining! I felt hungry and thirsty all the time although I was eating and drinking sufficiently. On Sunday morning my whole body was shaking when I woke up, because I was so tired from being at the convention all day long on Saturday.
Now I think my table wasn't placed too badly, but it was very loud from some stage near my table and then there were hundreds of visitors of course, so in the end my head rang from all the sensory overload (and I think other people felt the same way, because there was just too much to see). Also unfortunately all the noise made it almost impossible to get in touch with peoople interested in my work. I had to talk to them very loudly and I couldn't really concentrate on what I was going to say. :\
But it was still fun to see all the cosplayers and the other artists work.
Plus I even sold some stuff (not very much though! 7 artbooks and some postcards, unfortunately not a single T-shirt). Still there were some nice people, who were (and hopefully still are)  interested in my work and able to value it. :) 
So I wouldn't want to miss the experience.
But maybe comic conventions are not the right place for me. People who go there are just not looking for work like mine. 
I think most of them are expecting to see predominantly this Anime/Manga/Fantasy stuff (and that's what most of the other artists there were showing) and sadly they want to buy that kind of art for much less then what it's actually worth (I think they can't imagine how much effort most of the artists are putting in their work), so artist have to cut their prices too much. But there were also illustrators who sold their work for almost nothing (like one poster of the size 42 x 29 cm for 5 bucks or so) and others who were pissed at them, since to the visitors their average prices appeared to be very high in contrast to those dumping prices.

Enough of the critique of capitalism. :D Here are some shaky photos from the Comic Con (I didn't take many because there were a lot of people around, blocking my view).

Here's my table:
 

And this is me, sitting at my table and laughing my ass off (though I don't even remember what I was laughing about) [my friend, who helped me took the photo]:

This is the view of about 1/3 of the hall, were the Comic Con took place. I took this about 15 minutes before it was closing on Sunday, so that's why there aren't that many people around on the photo. 

Now I have to get some rest and then get off my ass and get busy again!
I'm still not finished with the second chapter of my book, plus I have to finish cutting the lino plate for this picture for the other artbook: