Adam,
Do you mean your compatriots had a loss at CE?
I hope the UK experience was at least worth it for everyone involved.
-theropod
Well, it may have been EMOTIONALLY worth it.... but a financial bust for a lot of folks.
Yeah, a lot of folks in the Art Show didn't have good sales.
The reason? I think it's because the majority of fans didn'y KNOW WHAT THE ART SHOW WAS.
Apparently, there aren't a lot of conventions like this in the UK. In Canada and the US, everyone knows what to expect from an artist's alley. We believe that 99% of the attending fans weren't informed what the Art Show was about. Does that sound odd? I guess we all assume that everyone automatically KNOWS the difference between an art show artist and a vendor (most folks didn't know we were all there because we draw STAR WARS-related art). And knows the difference between a poster and a high-end print/litho. AND knows that we cannot sell the print after the show, from our websites.
The only reason I sold more than half my print run was because we had our friend Bass helping run our tables. He took the time to educate each and every person who came up to our tables about what exactly the Art SHow was, and what we were selling.
Imagine if you went to a brand-new restaurant, but there was no menu. The people running the restaurant assume you know what they serve, because everyone knows in all the other restaurants what to order. And then they wonder why no one ordered any dessert; it's because no one KNOWS they have any dessert to sell.
We'll know better next time, if there's a next time.
-AH!