Golden Spiral
 

CONVENTIONS

Heather G. Scott

Panels

back to top "The Q&A Session of Digital Proportions!" (Aprox. 1 hour)
This panel is being phased out due to physical lack of interest at the events and is being moved online to the Tutorial sub-forums in the Dragonmun forums.

The new digital revolution has had a great impact on the artistic community of the world. Virtually everywhere you look you see fantastic creations and graphical elements that originated on a computer.

This 1-hour panel is a question and answer session hosted by freelancing professional and comic artist Heather Scott, who has been on a large number of bazaar and creative adventures because of her graphic design and illustration work. Computer Art is not a job that you take sitting down, and this question and answer panel is chock full of examples as to why.

Requirements: large TV or Projector hookup for a laptop
back to top "I can't afford Photoshop!" (Aprox.. 1 hour)
It is no secret that a program is needed to perform any kind of digital art, but what do you do when you can't afford the top of the line programs that the digital market has to offer? Never fear, there are lot of alternatives that if used correctly can confuse even the most avid digital art guru. In this panel I'll demonstrate some of the goodies that I've found online and will show you how to work around their limitations in order to create professional works of art.

Requirements: large TV or Projector hookup for a laptop
back to top "I Love Your Friends, They're All So Arty." (Aprox. 1 - 3 hours)
(Also known as Dragonmun's art party)
It's no secret that artists need other artists for a number of reasons. Writers need visual artists to illustrate ideas for them in ways that words can not. Comic artists need writers to develop content for them to draw. Musicians need people to listen and poets need the atmosphere to shape their rhymes.

This two hour get together is geared towards allowing artists to get together with their own in order to network, inspire, offer portfolio reviews, and show off without the hazards of standing inside a heavily trafficked area to do so.

This event also features Dragonmun's Convention Art Pad, which is a giant pad of paper that artists may draw/write in throughout the year and then is donated to the Hero's Initiative charity auction in the early spring of each year.

Requirements: A panel room with tables and audio hookup for a laptop.
back to top "Printed Comics" (Aprox.. 1 hour)
So you've got this comic idea, and you've even drawn the thing out, but how do you get it from your sketchbook into one of those neat little paper-back issues that you see in stores?

This panel explains how to print what the comic industry calls an "ashcan", which is typically a smaller-scale, yet refined, preview comic that you can use to pitch your series to a publishers or premier your idea at a trade show.
back to top "Why can't I sell my fan art?" (Aprox. 30 min.)
Take this scenario: Artist "A" is told that they cannot sell their art in an art show because distribution company "X" claims that A is violating their copyright with the work. A gets mad and takes it up with art show director "B" and unfortunately B is unable to help them out and A has to take their artwork home.

Why did this happen?

This panel discusses the experiences that I've had as an art director with situations like these and opens up the avenues to understanding the basics of copyright, such as intellectual property, how to register, and how to avoid infringement issues.
back to top "You want me to dress as what?!" (Aprox. 1 hour)
Crossplaying is a subcategory of cosplaying that involves people dressing up as character of a gender not of their own. There's a lot that can go wrong with this.

A LOT

This is a panel oriented around tip and tricks to dressing up as the opposite gender with as little pain as possible (mental or physical) as well as a analysis of why we weirdos might do it.

Requirements: large TV or Projector hookup for a laptop, some room to work around in.
back to top "Cosplay Hygiene" (Aprox. 30 Min.)
Everyone knows that showering and maintaining a general air of cleanliness with your costumes is a must. That's why this panel IS NOT about that.

This panel is dedicated to some of the lesser known and more tricky parts of keeping yourself healthy while staying in costume. Things like how to take care of theatrical contact lenses and how to change your skin color while preventing trips to the hospital will be discussed.

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