A few highlights from my time at Anime Impulse OC this past weekend. I debuted my Return to Shiganshina Arc Bertholdt cosplay and a few people recognized who I was. 😄 Hanging the plushie off my harness was a big help. 🤣 But I felt so amazing in this cosplay. 😄 There’s nothing like cosplaying as your kin. 🥰 Other than seeing some cool cosplays, I played a few games with the friends I was with in the arcade, ate some yummy food in the food truck area, shopped around in the dealers hall and Artist alley and bought some neat stuff. 😁 I’d say this was another successful con experience. 😌
So me and my brother got tickets to the celebrity signings, while in line for the signings and for other random things I was literally crocheting yarn leis for the people I was gonna meet.
I also made these really quick drawings of the most out of context things I could think of so here’s the run down.
I gave Ashley Ekstein an image of Ahsoka lost in the off-limits area of the play place at Mc Donalds... I’m not kidding.
UHm for Sam witwer I gave him a drawing of Darth Maul as a planet fittness employee because when my friend showed me a reel of him in the recording booth I said, he looks like a planet fittness employee-
For Matt Lanter, I gave him a drawing of Ahsoka and Anakin staring at the floor because they just dropped the lego ship they’d been working on for hours.
Okay and I didn’t get a picture of this one, but I drew Michelle Ang a picture of Omega realising she’s lost in a Walmart.
The voice actors like looked at these for a good minute trying to understand what was happening until I explained to them what it was, I think the person who was the most confused was Sam Witwer because those two things just don’t make any sense whatsoever. I also remember Ashley Ekstein in the most mom way possible saying, I love your art! This is really good. ahfiuerhsuifwehfweifg
Michelle Ang was like :) I love it and then I showed her my tiny sketch book and she asked for my instagram and i was like
You for real? You serious? On God? Just like that?
She told me to write it on the back of the drawing and I did and like. I guess Michelle Ang factually has my instagram @ now. Also remember saying, man thank you we need more PI rep in Star Wars and then she just started nodding and said “ yes Absolultey.” both of us just nodded in solidarity for like a minute.
Even the celebrities I didn’t have tickets for I still got in line and met just to give them leis, each lei had the colors of their characters, and it was something I decided to do as an extent of what we did back in Hawai’i, especially at kawaii kon people would give the guests there gifts.
Of course, it was usually stuff like art, and food, but because of covid and certain gift rules these yarn leis were the best I could do that they would accept :)
THen the absolute chadist moment, me and my brother managed to get pictures with Temuera Morrison
I asked first of course and gave him a lei and he like like, Oh it’s for me? and I was like 𝒴𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝑒𝑔𝑒. But not really, I just said, Yeah :)
Absolute legend, when we were done, I said, Mahalo Nui :) and my brother said shoots, and like we heard Temuera say Mahalo nui back and I just remember leaving like
The one kine uncle said it, I am at peace.
Another thing my fish, on my belt, my fish pouch is like staring back at the camera.
Which is your fav 1-10? 🤔 @DesignerCon get ready for these prints!! I’m coming to Dcon after missing it because of the pandemic! So I’ll be at booth 2601 from Nov18-20 in Anaheim. I’ll have a selection of open edition and ARTIST PROOF and RARE prints! I’ll reveal more in the coming weeks 😘 It’s my last public appearance of the year so I hope lots of you come to see me 🥰💘🤗
Do you have your tickets to Designer Con?? Nov 18-20 at the Anaheim convention center! Dela and I will be at Booth 2607!! We’ll have new Limited Edition prints and more!!
Review and Galleries: National Association of Music Merchants NAMM Show, by Don Adkins
Review and Galleries: National Association of Music Merchants NAMM Show, by Don Adkins, At Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on January 25th - 27th, 2024. #namm @NAMM
At Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on January 25th – 27th, 2024
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