Vidard Corner News: April 26 #2

Henlo!

This end of the month, some eventful stuffs happened in the state I'm living in and I thought I could give my own experiences here through this month's second newsletter post. The main highlights gonna be two events happened in the same venue, alongside with some recent arts I worked on.

This going to be the longest post I've made so let's get going! 

FluffyLand x GoodSmile Cafe Collaboration

To be exact, the drink kiosk (Doko Koko Pick Up) is also part of the collaboration since it held on the same area. Basically they are selling limited-time themed drinks and FluffyLand merchandises during the event period, as you can see on the catalogue below. Also, fursuiters and furry-themed cosplayers are able to get 10% discount on all drinks.

There is also a Meet & Greet session with one of FluffyLand mascot, Caesar on two days (25 April and 2 May). I'm able to go on the first day and took some pictures during the meet session! Plenty of fursuiters were there too to take pictures together with Caesar and got discounted drinks too.

 

 

I met some familiar faces despite coming there alone, and they also got to experienced both event day and meet session too. Though the merchandises were not sold there yet since they started it on 1 May, apparently (which is one week after I write this post). I'm thinking of updating more on this event on next post after I visit there for second time, but with my friends that want to visit the kiosk as well.

If you're missing out on first day on Meet & Greet session, you can attend on second day (2 May)! 

Cos-Mic 2026 (Spring Festival)

On the side of the same venue, there is also a free-entry anime con happening on two days. I got to visit the artist alley area before visiting Doko Koko Pick Up.

There's nothing much I experience here despite wanting to shop around merchs of my favourite IP. I was looking for Veemon or Guilmon merchs but able to bought some Leo/need merchandises instead by chance!

Leo/need World Link charms and stickers by Yeellow!

Leo/need STAGE OF SEKAI CD charm by Mogufish!

There's other stuffs going on like cosplayer booths and stage events but I'm not attending those areas.

Themed Art Series: Puppeteers

The full-body art series is puppeteers theme, with two type of puppets: dolls and shadows. I took four volunteers from Facebook and open up commission slots for the theme.

The series isn't completed yet as I want to get at most five slots for the commission side (which, well, less likely to happen when I'm on the end of finishing this). Meanwhile, i got a vision to create a photocard series mockup with all involved characters I drawn.

Despite that, I like how it turned out so far and I want to update more on in on the next post.

If you would like one, you can get it for USD40 / MYR120. Do send me a message through my e-mail or personal Telegram!

Latest Artworks

Battlecuts Art

Easter Egg 2026 (ft. Vee)

Paildramon fanart

 

The battlecuts art is actually a experiment through what I'm comfortable in my art process and I took inspiration from Pokemon and Undertale battlecuts art I found on Google.

I kinda want to catch up on seasonal/event themed arts and I settled down with Easters and Earth Day. Though I'm a bit late on both day, I want to to start on them anyway to test my current skills. I finished Easter art with Easter Miku as my direct reference for Vee outfit.

Also, on previous post I've shown my Paildramon WIP and I managed to finish it too. Maybe more Digimon fanarts someday but let's see what I'm going to draw next. 

WIP

Earth Day WIP (ft. Hakurou)

Before I start on Earth Day theme art, I was viewing the costume on Project Sekai's World Link 3 costumes and something awaken me to experiment more on techwear-style clothing. Probably because of black-white main color of the outfit is why I suddenly want to pick on different direction, unlike the Easter art I did.

I finished the colouring but haven't finished the rendering yet, so I will update more on it on next post!

Commission Slots Update

Previously I mentioned that I want to set a price of USD40 / MYR120 for my standard slots. Honestly, I worked on more than said price on old art commissioners' artworks and maybe raising a little bit won't hurt my value (hence, raising my base price to USD55 / MYR160).

I know I'm not going to get as frequent as I used to with such high price, but I also want to show my worth with my current skill I have right now. I occasionally creating more personal artworks and planning future art series while I'm  having less or no commission work to do meanwhile.

With that, I'm ready to take some standard slots and discuss about your commission ideas in the messages through my personal Telegram or e-mail. I also updated the samples on my Trello queue!

Afterthoughts

I didn't think I'm able to write the newsletter post this long, with more eventful moments going on this month.

While I'm "window shopping" around the artist alley in Cos Mic, I've got some booth setup and merchandise ideas in case I'm participating any artist alley in the future. Well, talk about that, some friends and mutual has been asking me if I'm joining one this year.

I would like to if I given another chance to shine once more, but with my financial and personal situation, I don't think I'm joining any artist alley in any con this year. I vow to myself to be more prepared with proper setup and better merchandises after experiencing artist alley moments in past conventions.

Meanwhile, I'm working on my own art skills and taking commissions regularly while working part-time job to support myself. I supposed to quit my job last year but looks like I overestimated myself before planning to step out. It was mentally draining as I wish to focus more on creating more arts and sustain myself with it. I know it's difficult but there's still small possibility to do so.

So, there's no worry for me not joining the artist alley at this moment. I really appreciate your expectation and I will return opening my artist alley booth again someday. Hat's off!

If you have any of my OC fanarts, you can send me personally for me to feature it in future newsletter post!