#anime North

[alicenpai]

Baccano rewired my 14 year old brain fr (true story) 🍾🗽🚂💰🔫

i made a sticker sheet for one of my favourite animes ever, for anime north 2023 this month! One of the drawings I did for my first ever con was Baccano, so I wanted to pay tribute. It makes me overjoyed the fandom is alive and kicking in 2023. if you can’t get to AN and you want the sticker sheet, keep an eye out this summer for my online shop!!

A lot of the media I first experienced when I was a teen was so formative for me as an artist, Baccano was one of them - and I love inputting vintage aesthetics in my art whenever possible (unfortunately not possible half of the time). I've watched the anime many times, and I'm almost done the 1st book, unfortunately I learned theres 22 other books (DW voice: I can't read!!! 💔) Planning this sheet took a LOT of work - each individual sticker composition, trashing and reworking sketches, research and visual reference, drawing inspiration from the art nouveau and art deco periods, as well as film noir era posters. 

There were countless times where I regretted my choices and thought, "Oh man, why did I do this to myself?! I think I should have drawn chibis of the characters instead!!". Planning and drawing this took so long that I couldn’t envision it being complete for my deadline. But with the power of god and anime I pulled through. I'm quite happy I went with this more graphic design approach! I definitely want to try more graphic design stuff in the future, it’s a lot of fun 🤔🤔

I ended up with a completely NEW pinterest board of 125 art deco related pins over the course of drawing this... help

the flames in the “The Grand Panacea” poster were inspired by these two posters

[maruti-bitamin]

It’s Anime North time! 

I will be at Table D06 in Pro Plaza✨

I made lots of new things, which can be previewed in my store. 

Convention prices may differ very slightly. 

Hope to see you there!

p.s. I also made some B-grade goodie bags. Those will be first come first serve. 

[gisellesdoodles]

bg3 charms for anime north but formatted less awkwardly now lol

[dragqueenpentheus]

making stickers for anime north :)

[homemadehorrors]

Big fan of subtle, restrained colour pallettes. 😎

[yamsgarden]

omg seeing my friend's amazing Splatoon cosplay, reminds me that I forgot to share a few pics of our Frye and Shiver from Anime North!

It was super fun and everyone was so nice, I hope to come back next year :3 There were so many french poeple i felt like i was at home ngl ahaha

Hope we can also get a real photoshoot someday OTL

My friend @/ mumu_taingerine on IG made the costumes and the base for the wigs in EVA foam

I painted the wigs and made the masks and (most) accessories

[ekamy]

Small Anime North cosplay update but its coming along! I might alter the finger wrap part of it, but we'll see.

Gotta get going on this after I file my taxes 😆

[britcision]

Alright I’m still alive a day later so LOOK! First pass of Taaco from TV! Everything but the hat and the cape came from the closet and the shorts say IDGAF on the butt but the cape covers them 😔

My first magic trick of the day was taking off the bra I wore to drive down without taking off the corset or shirt

My second trick was applying kinesiology tape to bind the tiddies down again, without taking off the corset or shirt

Success rates??? Not great, I’ll grant you, but I got a couple inches off and they stayed in place with no bouncing even when I ran for the 5 hours of con! So still better than the bra

(You are not supposed to tape the tiddies for more than 4 hours the first couple times you do it apparently and this was attempt 2 so even that was pushing it, especially in 30 degree heat. I go hard or go home)

These boots also have the highest incline from toe-to-heel that I’ve worn to a con, since all my taller shoes are platforms and reasonably flat which makes them super easy to run in

Only had one minor spill while chasing down a t-rex but those photos are all on the camera so they’ll live on Insta when the time comes

The ding dang bracer that closed fine at home on two magnets decided if I was gonna move my hands it now needs 3 to keep it in place, so I’m fixing that today

The criminal in question:

Aaaand the purple and blue pouch I sewed at the con while waiting for passes, so I think I really had a very Adventure Zone day all around

The hat? The hat crushed it, 0 problems except one attempt to take flight on our way back to the car, which I caught by the curtain wire sooooo I gotta tighten the attachments on that before I put the curtain on cuz it pulled a lil bit

Worked like a charm though, held it above my head for the dealer’s room, weighed nothing (comparatively, hence taking flight), and for the first time in 4 years I spent most of a day outside without getting sun sick

For the first time I did need to bobby pin this wig, which I shoulda seen coming given the hat. It did also keep trying to eat my ears, the pin, my earrings, and anything else that came near my head though so she may also be getting rowdy

The cape jingled merrily all day so even if I was a lil slowed down no one had to worry about losing me! 😁 all in all………. Them boots ain’t coming to Yeticon I would PERISH on the hills, but I have a couple possible substitutes

I’m hoping to have the curtain on by then though! Soooo depending on some imminent updates, we’ll see if the hat comes to con again 👀

We also watched a truck hit a soccer mom ass van and crack the damn windshield in half literally right in front of us rather than wait for the van to move over another foot so it could get through, because some genius decided that if he had to get to the back of the con at 5pm on Sunday through THE MAIN PARKING LOT he didn’t have to show up early or anything

To arrive on time. At the end of the con. On the last day.

You could barely swipe a credit card between their bumpers with how close he was tailgating the van, and then when staff came to direct an opening to slide the truck down the middle he couldn’t wait 5 more minutes for the car to actually get out of the way, sooooooo hope he liked the extra 2 hours and insurance calls

Lucky for us, we could get out of the parking lot the other way and I warned everyone in line behind him that they’d had a crash blocking that lane so they’d have a chance to turn around

I’m never parking back there again I’ll eat the $15-$20 to park at the hotel across the street for Sunday and anyone wanting a ride home with me can chip in

We actually did alright though, only took us one hour to clear the parking lot, despite lots of assholes and some poor indecisive souls who all seemed to think indicating was a polite request, not a declaration of intent

[inarqus]

sneak previews of the charms i’ll have at anime north 💜🦄

[kureffui]

✨️ Purikura PuriKyua ✨️

Will be available at Anime North 2023 as a square print! (10"x10")

[caeboa]

Wings of Darkness, come, sever the night from day! Midnight Phantasmagoria! Annnd cutting it close but Fischl is here! The Prinzessin herself! I’ll be bringing her with me to Anime North next week (AAAAAA!), and am glad I got her done just in time. Shoutout to my sister for helping me plan this one! Stay tuned for more Anime North info, just got some details, so map SOON!

[gisellesdoodles]

upon your return i shall gift you a beautiful flower

(meteion print for anime north)

[1000feuille]

MILLEFEUILLE ANIME NORTH 2023 CATALOGUE!

i’ll be at table i01 from may 26-28th, see you guys there :)

table location can be found here

[homemadehorrors]

Tropigoat ☀️🌴🌊

[dreamcarnivaldoll]

It was really good to be out and about in Lolita again with my beautiful wife 🥰OTT SWEET FOREVER!!!!

[trojanteapot]

Pics of my Simon cosplay I wore to Anime North 2023 where I was also a panels staff!

Only one person recognized it but that was enough for me!!!

Link to Backpack tutorial

Link to Boots tutorial