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As an artist who started digitally drawing at 13, to me who just turned 30, it was definitely rough but all the experience shaped me to become who I am today. All that you mentioned in the video are so true. We inspire the younger gen of artists to learn from us as how we learned from our artist idols. Happy Birthday!! May you be blessed with good sales and health!

Happy Birthday! Congrats on reaching lvl 30! The small business life is hard but congrats on a year of doing it full time! Sometimes the living the dream is also a nightmare but I admire how you keep going making awesome art and content. May 2025 be a fun and successful year for you. <3

I'm watching all of these end of year videos and sooooo many people are talking about burnout and over-doing it this year, me included. Much luck to you for next year!

Happy Birthday/Christmas/New Year!! Bigger and better things to come in 2025 and beyond!!

❤ saying bye to my 20s was a moment for me too - but my 30s didn’t have all those expectations and so much more laid back and more me - just all about letting it all go - so amazing for you 😊

Hugs to you. Happy new year!

I’ve tried so many new things this year I know it’s not much but I got to do one market stall and a Christmas fair which I found super fun! I made new stuff too I made sticker sheets stickers prints ext it was amazing! I definitely have found what I want to do after finishing college is over and gaining enough funding! I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy new year and also HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳 🎂

Happy Birthday!! 🎉🍰 Here’s to another year, wish you the best!! ❤

Corgi Mate! Happy birthday!🎂 Thank you for sharing your struggles. I will try my best next year to become a full time artist like you as soon as possible! (-ω-)

Happy birthday Linsey!! If you kept going on your farewell to your 20s segment, I would have started crying bc wtffff 😭😭

You worked so hard this year Linsey! Here’s to an amazing 2025 :)❤

Happy Birthday! 🎂 I hope you have a great 2025!🎉❤

Wow!!!! this is such next level convention set up! This is truly amazing and inspirational🎉🎉🎉

Happy birthday! 😊🎉

Just love the mini goals you shared & what a challenge!!

Maybe look into doing comics again. Webtoon as a platform is much bigger now and you might reach more audience that way. It could be the next big emotes, you never know.

You cried. I cried. WE ALL CRIED. 🫶🫶🫶Happy Birthday! I hope you have such a beautiful day. 💖💖💖 you’ve accomplished so much just this past year. So proud of youuuuu!

Happy birthday to you! When you said you did that many events, my jaw dropped. You should be very proud of yourself! And your 30s are a great time, trust me the best is yet to come :)

I understand wanting to make all the things and feeling that FOMO! I realized that I have to slim down product as well but more so because I am a painter not a trinket-maier. So, I'm going the traditional route of prints and postcards (and MAYBE keep some stickers, zines and sketchbooks as well). I tried totebags, keychains and plushies and they just didn't work for my art or my audience. Live and learn! Also, don't forget to get your TPT renewed here soon! ✨

Your video is very insightful! Sometimes social media shows us one thing but then things are entirely different when we try it out in person. Started doing artist alley part time and it has been a bit hard but being realistic is what helps set better goals and is making things a lot better. Wishing you a wonderful new year with your business! Also happy birthday 🎉

Happy Birthday! 🎉

I did 30 weeks worth of events- trying art shows, festivals, craft fairs, conventions, markets... I feel very burnt out but the experience has helped me figure out which types of events have my audience and which don't. This was a hard sales year for everyone. Five years is the average time for getting an art business on it's feet. Keep going :-)

Will you be doing any Illinois cons next year ?

I hope you had an amazing birthday

Wait you stream on twitch ?

What are your plans for 2025?

I’m sorry AWA wasn’t better :( I will say as someone who lives 2 hours away from ATL and who also host smaller kpop events, Atlanta is becoming EXTREMELY saturated with events. From kpop to anime events!! Theres some type of event every weekend and sometimes multiple on the same day. It’s been hard even for kpop events bc it feels like everyone now wants to host events and in turn the market is becoming saturated. I don’t think I’ll be even hosting or vending at even Kpop events. I think the only profitable event is momocon but their vendor application I heard is changing next year and being more strict to try and weed out at the AI art stealers.

@Artofkristalmccoy i would love to sub to ur channel ur a artist yourself?

your setup is amazing

Aww love the set up!!!! 😮❤❤

@kawaiianart 🎉🎉🎉🎉 yayyyyyy

it seemed AWA picked the worst time of the year to schedule their con. they've been all over the place with their dates the last few years, and now a new location. it's been a rough year for everyone, and it being close to christmas, it was hard to splurge like i do at momocon or something. my family doesn't even do christmas gifts, but it's mostly because i'm missing so much work due to thanksgiving, christmas, and new years, so i need to budget for the loss. it's also really confusing as to why they made thursday's artist alley hours till 8pm, when nobody is there??? everyone, including me is working, and i usually plan to go to cons friday-sunday. i unfortunately didn't even find the artist alley until later in the day because when i came into the building there were no signs pointing to where anything was, so it took me a minute to find it, and i kept walking in circles. it was really frustrating. and by the time i met up with friends and started looking around, it was already 6pm. then saturday i was doing other things like meet-ups, pics and panels, so i didn't even get to look more. :( i wish they would have made friday or saturday their 8pm close, it just makes more sense for everyone. awa is the most unorganized convention i've ever been to. i was miserable friday because none of my friends were around. a lot of people didn't attend this year because of christmas. idk, i hope this perspective helps everyone kind of see why it may have seemed bad this year. i hope they improve going forward. imo, awa doesn't need 4 days because they are a smaller con compared to momocon, but at the same time it makes sense because so many people travel here from out of state.. and the artist alley does not need to be open till 8pm on a thursday. and if you're saying next year it will be even closer to christmas, i might not go. :/ it might be the case for even more people. but, idk how i found your youtube, but i enjoyed watching it, and i subscribed. i'll be sure to come by and support you if i see you at another con!

It was crazy reading AAN and seeing how bad AWA did with organizing all this

This was my 3rd year flying out to AWA. Previous two years (2019 and 2022) were amazing for sales, so I was shocked to make only a quarter of my usual sales.

It’s so cute ❤

I’m so sorry AWA wasn’t so fruitful! AWA was my first out of state con and was hoping for a better turnout but I was so glad to have met so many wonderful artists! We considered this con as a marketing budget as we’ve only done events in Hawai’i and wanted to branch out. I’m so happy you liked the chocolates. Have a Merry Christmas to you and your family!

This is when you get event organizers. They made their money now its time to show up for vendor dealing with situations like that. These entitled people ALWAYS need to be called out. Their bad behavior doesnt belong at markets. So rude. I understand being caught off guard and lesrning from it. Highly encourage people to speak up for themselves and their space. We dont want crappy people like yhis getting away with stuff like this. Im so sorry this happened to you. That made me mad. But hopefully, they won't continue that behavior and be educated on proper market etiquette.

i do love ur checkout thingy on ur head

Dang that was slow. I saw someone comment on a thread that inperson events have been slow so they are trying in testing that money they would have spent on events to online marketing. Enjoyed seeing you and your mom.

I'm so sorry this con didn't go well for you. And I'm sure you will get into Kawaii Kon, as a local fave!

As a Southeast based Artist, AWA for me has always been middle of the road. I know some people do amazing there but it was never like that for me and I've done it for like 5-6 years. Like I did better at Tekko than I normally do at AWA (I haven't been back the past 2 years for AWA). Most of my Atlanta friends fly to HolMat every year so the dates were really a problem 😓 I'm sad it didn't go more like normal AWA but here's to hoping next year's cons are better! I love the checkout headband and wanna make one now. I hope our paths cross again next year~

Lol the way you and your mom sync tilt head at the beginning. Man im sorry you didnt have a good time. We gonna hope 2025 everyone has better money to spend for the artists.

Hey! Will you be at anime Milwaukee?

winning!!!

Ur stuff is amazing so something mustve been off. Been seeing people unhappy about AWA on insta as well lol

Awwh sorry this happened to you and no one wants to have a bad experience because of dates moved etc

So sorry it happened to you too! This is also our worst anime convention this year. I didn’t expect anything but oh boy this con went terribly wrong in so many ways: the dates changed, became 4 days, moved to a new venue, accepted a lot of vendors and artists…etc and no, we’re not going back either! 😂 😢