Both MomoCon and Furry Weekend Atlanta were a blast. I had a lot of fun and I am grateful to be invited to do the body painting panels for both conventions.
Before MomoCon I painted Andre as Piccolo from the Japanese animation series DragonBall Z. You can see photos of it on his deviantART page here.
The panel at MomoCon was fun. The audience was nice and engaging and very eager to be painted. What really made me happy about it was to see someone come up who was interested in actually try some airbrushing. So he came up and we drew a volunteer from the crowd and let him paint the volunteer while I stepped him through. He did an excellent job for his first time. I sincerly hope he decides to get his own equipment and pursue it further.
At Furry Weekend Atlanta I painted Jessica as a dog Friday night and I painted her as a tiger Saturday. I also painted Melissa as a blue and purple dragon. Best dragon I’ve painted yet, though I don’t have photos yet. They both appeared at the panel which I felt help add to it. It helps to have a live model appear all painted up to show off the art.
Again, I painted someone from the audience and explained the steps that I took. I was very surprised that someone I painted at the first Furry Weekend Atlanta I attended appeared very eager to learn how to paint. I let him try the equipment and stepped him through painting someone. I gave him some practice doing lines and spots on my arms first this time though. He did really well for his first time too and I spoke with him for a bit after the panel about how he can start painting on his own. I was very pleased.
Unfortunately I don’t have photos of my own from these events. I didn’t have a working camera.






#1 by crystalscan on November 21, 2009 - 11:53 am
Any images of the Friday night painting? Would love to see it! Canine bodypaint is very rare it seems.
#2 by MrWerewolf on November 21, 2009 - 3:48 pm
No. Unfortunately my camera was broken. I got a replacement camera after FWA though.
#3 by crystalscan on November 24, 2009 - 11:12 am
What a bummer – hope you got a good new camera :-)
You’ll just have to do it again!
#4 by MrWerewolf on November 24, 2009 - 2:51 pm
I believe I got a good camera. I’ve been using it to document my work since I got it.