Another year, another entry into a con mascot contest

AR... kun?!

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I derno why I keep entering into art contests because I never win, orz.
Maybe it's just because art is the only thing I can do? I derno.

Anyways, another year, another con, which means another mascot contest. I usually don't enter into them because I'm intimidated by the fact that this is contest is, possibly, province-wide, and I'm pretty sure there's a really good artist lurking somewhere.

We were given the choice to do either (and I quote):

1.) Cute Pink hair girl
2.) Cute Pink hair boy
3.) Cute Pink hair furry thingy.

And I'm pretty sure I'm gonna win by default at this rate because - unless one got submitted since the last batch of mascots were posted - I have yet to see any male entries. Which is probably why I opted to go with the male mascot because I knew there'd be too many people drawing girls.

Sketch

I'll save you nice people from hearing me go on and on about, for example, how much I hate how the scarf came out and how I half-assed most of it, to talk about the con. Notice how I tentatively named him AR-kun and not AE-kun? Well, if you remember or care from last year, instead of Anime Evolution we had Cos & Effect. I'm still assuming that AE isn't going to happen in 2012 neither, thus comes this new con.

Get ready for Anime Revolution.
I see absolutely no relation to Anime Evolution. Nope, not even one.

When it was first announced, it was met with suspicion, but I think that's now subsided and it's welcomed as our new con for 2012. At least their planning abilities look more sound, as they've already booked a venue at the prestigious Vancouver Convention Center.

Of course, I already sent an application to be in Artist Alley.

On another note, I saw on Facebook that new staff has already been hired for AE so maybe we'll be having double cons this year?

And I know this has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween, but in the case that I never make anything for it, Happy Halloween evvrybody!


Made in openCanvas
Edited in Photoshop