Meanwhile, we were going to continue or quest to stitch something for all the Zelda games I've beaten, with Twilight Princess up next. Got a few days into it and frankly, it's going to take much longer (maybe 8 or 9 months) than I was originally thinking (2 or 3 months). Nothing wrong with that, but going to be a challenging several months. However, you'll note I said "we were going to..." This because when I was dropping off the bird pic to be framed, the gal there said that a guy was in a few days prior. Just opened up a gaming shop in town and was looking for local artists who might want to show off some of their stuff. My pictures are obviously nerdy/gaming related, so The Artery was showing some of the ones I'd done. Guy was interested, so hit me up about displaying some of my pictures. He was thinking as a chance to sell them, though was fine with the fact that I said what I'd done, I did for me/have no interest in selling them. But I said I was open to maybe loaning one or two of my pictures out or even doing one to be sold. He was on board with that, so that's the current plan. Once done, we'll figure out if I sell it to him, then he hopes to resell it, or I retain the rights and he gets a cut once it sells (I'm leaning that way. That way, he doesn't get stuck with it if it doesn't sell, and then I can either keep it myself or donate it as a prize for GDQ or whatever). Figure time and cost of framing, this is going to have a price in the $350-400 range and I have no idea if some one would be willing to pay that. But, we'll see. Have enjoyed doing these as a hobby, we'll see if we can have commercial success, or at least get my name out there around town. So I'm curious and excited to see how things will go.
So, for our project, we're working on the attached. Castlevania is certainly a well known series, so that should help the sale. And if not, I'm a fan of the series, so would have no problem with it on my wall, or as I said, donate it as a prize. But I was able to find a nice action shot from the first game, cropped out some of the extra stuff, leaving what we've got. We're a little over a week in and making good progress. First few days were just the grey diamonds in the corner, so that was a little disappointing in my progress. But since then, we've gotten most of Death done and have started in on the pillar. Most of this week will be spent on the pillar, but I think I can finish up Simon (our hero), Death's head, the curtains and such next week. That's my tentative goal. However, since both the gaming shop and The Artery are closed Sundays and Mondays, if I can't finish by the 14th without doing lots of extra work, I've got a couple of days to work that I can't turn it in anyway. But still shooting for the 14th. Went up to Michael's last week to pick up the light red for the curtains and got a couple of possibilities. Once I get some of the bright red in, I'll see what actually works/looks better. But happy with the other colors I've chosen thus far.
