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Artist Alley First-Timer? What You Need to Know! A little advice after my time at the artist alley. by ArtByMelissaM (https://www.deviantart.com/artbymelissam) :star: An original article by ArtByMelissaM (https://www.deviantart.com/artbymelissam) Artist Alley: My First Time! :bulletred: Many of us have been to some form of comic or anime convention and traveled through the artist alley. The first time I ever went to a convention was WonderCon in San Francisco, California, and the first place I stopped was at the artist alley. I remember being so surprised that there was actually a place completely devoted to artists. After browsing through the artist alley and meeting some of the artists, I thought to myself, “One day, you

Now I probably shouldn't be one to write this up or anything since I've been to ONE artist alley in my life-time and will be attending a second one at the end of the year, but I have been going around asking other artists about the artist alley and what should I do or what should any artist do to better prepare themselves for the anime convention's artist alley.  After much much research and questionings I've compiled a list of things that have been suggested to me and others that have asked the similar question, "What should I do for the artist alley?"  Hopefully this will be insightful to those artists that are attending any convention that