I would be a fool to not mention the HUGE event going on now in the BBW and Plus Sized world right now. BBW Fanfest is going on right now out in Las Vegas. Last year was the first year for it, and I was fortunate enough to attend and show my stuff. Since then I have built relationships with those I met, gotten some work and notice out of it and had the inspiration to continue on with my work because of it.
I encourage you all to go and check it out if you can. the hotel is great, the casino is good and Fanfest looks to be bigger and better than last year. Check out the website and follow along with your favorite models an the official twitter page for all the fun and updates. I know I will.
Congrats to all those that are going and are involved with it. looking forward to hearing all about it.
Hello all. Hope you are doing well. Settling into Autumn all right? It appears to have finally come in here full time. The leaves are changing and falling fast to the ground. The cool fall air is all around and it feels oh so lovely out.
I've been busy with the day job. The hours keep coming in and I have to take them. Never worked overtime in my life, no job I held offered it, and with this one I will be on my 2nd double shift come tomorrow. Crazy. Trying my best to keep the art flowing, if you follow me on twitter you get a sense of how the day goes at work. Lots of hanging around the warehouse and guarding the grounds. So the art allows me to really explode out. There will be new new stuff and I suppose I should get to work a special Halloween pic since its a week away. Wow.
Well new works aside for a moment. I got an email the other night, Sunday, from Platinum Puzzy. She is, if your recall, one of the ladies that was in charge of organizing and producing BBW Fanfest. It seems I can't go a week without mentioning it so lets face it. It fucking ruled, and its now part of my life. So yeah Platinum emailed me asking how the poster I was doing going, i was slacking big time on it truthfully. She was wondering if I could get anything to her so she could go to the printers on monday with something. Well me not wanting to let anyone down, especially those that care and support me, I did my best and worked til about midnight on this thing. i really like and wanted to give you all a taste of it. i know the event is tomorrow and I will see what she is doing with it. but for now here ya go.
A hump day treat...
Those are some the best and hardest working ladies I have met. I wonder how they all look....together.
Happy Hump Day.
So I am kinda halfway out the door at the moment. Going to get that first of the month workout in and hopefully set a good positive vibe out there. Before i go though, I wanted to share some fun stuff and tease a bit of what I got in store for you all here.
Some quick little hits right now and then hopefully I'll be bringing you the big stuff later.
Enjoy.
So these first ones are all the quick sketches I did the other day to help warm up. Maybe you recognize a few faces.
This one is a couple headshots from a private commission I got going on. Really like the one on the right.
Here is the full figure of one of the ladies up top. First full on nude shot from me.
lastly, here is the tease for todays bigger works that I have going.
Saturday. Got up early again and hit the fitness center. Felt good having a whole place like that to myself for the most part. I had to do my best to look good right?
Got setup around 10:30am again and prepared for another day at the booth. Everyone was filling in a little slower than the day before. The two models on either side of me were pretty busy all weekend. making new deals and meeting fans. I got some overflow from them which was very good. I got some more notice and more business cards taken. Lots of connections being made.
I want to give a special shoutout and recognize another member of the crew who was putting on this show. @JessikaVegas was so great to everyone going around and checking on us all and seeing if we needed anything more. She was very sweet and helped me feel a little more relaxed and prouder to be showing off my work. I think I owe her a dance.
Another highlight that I was looking forward to was the chance to meet one of my favorite women @jezebeljolie . However she was extremely busy. I did get my hug and the chance for her to check out my work too so that was great. Maybe next time I'll get to see her gorgeous eyes even more.
The other bonus to that was meeting new friends. @CurvyScarlette was kinda posted near me. Being that I was promoting myself as well as checking other's actions through twitter for the whole event we ended up striking up a conversation and connection through twitter. She is incredibly cool and sexy. Really can a hot redhead curvy woman be any other way?? She helped shop me around a bit and got my name thrown around a bit.
Not long after that, like i said the afternoons really picked up. I was approached by one of the ladies from @SinCityBounty the internet radio show out of Las Vegas that deals with dating bigger women, relationships and helping to promote all aspects of the BBW world and industry. If you think I was tongue tied when I met Scarlette VaVoom then you know the dribble that just came out of my mouth when answering my first question. Once again all the ladies there were fun as hell, so sweet and just the right amount of naughty to get me through it. i even managed to slip on the "Don Draper Facade" and came up with a new tag line and hashtag. Want proof? Here's the video.
Yup. That really happened.
Not long after was the next big event for the weekend. My first sale.
I was seeing green for sure.
To top it all off the ladies asked me to join them at their table for the Awards Banquet. If ever there was a place that i felt I snuck into it was there. The award show was great and it was so good to see and hear all the girls show their love and support for each other. Like Desiree said "Its not a fetish its a preference." I could not agree more and this whole event really showed that off. Aside from sitting with the Sin City Bounty girls i got to see the solo performance from Scarlette Vavoom. Yup. ;)
So after the award show as the after party. However being a little worn out and not sure when everyone would be coming back I did make it an early night. Too early from what I hear but still what a great day.
Sunday morning was a rough one for everyone. Turns out that after party really did go late into the night/early morning. Did I miss out on some fun? Yes i probably did but i was hoping for one last big push. Everyone was a little slow getting into the show but i held on and ended up getting some work sold.
I was tired myself but it was great. The beautiful @LexxxiLuxe and @MaggieDubonet asked if I would draw them as a couple super heroes. I was more than happy to oblige and did a fairly good job as well.
Lexxxi Luxe as "Captain Cleavage" i mean "Captain America".
So it was kind of a chill day there at the tradeshow. Lots of everyone walking around. i got the chance to scope out the rest of the floor and see what other fun was going on. Wow. Some of the sights. Damn what a great time. After hanging around a bit, getting to film the girls from Voluptuous Entertainment do their thing the day got better and better.
Adding to that was another sale of some art.
Like i said on twitter, "The 'D' is silent, but the cash register isnt".
So how do you close out an epic event like this? I had dinner with the Voluptuous Entertainment girls at the House of Blues. The food was alright, the company was even better but the best part was the ride there. I was in the back with Daisi and Coco with Kitty riding shotgun and Scarlette driving. At one point Kitty turned around to see me crammed in the back and said "Ohhh poor Mike." To which i responded "Oh yeah, it sucks being me right now." I assure you it did not.
