New Cosplay Photography Con Rates!

At recent anime & comic conventions, I've mainly offered only one special con rate for cosplayers who wanted to hire me. Many of those cosplayers' shoots I used to try out new editing techniques and gave them much more than they paid for. While I wish I could keep giving people full editing and special effects at such a low cost, unfortunately, that editing eats up a large amount of time and has often either made me late on delivering those photos or caused me to rush on other photos, leading to inconsistent quality. Of course, however, I still want to offer my services at very reasonable rates. Putting together cosplays and paying for the cons to wear them at can become so expensive as it is, so having to hire a photographer on top of that can sometimes be difficult on people's wallets. And that's why I'm now offering 3 different special con rates.

Ignation Christmas Music Video

Merry Christmas!! Here's a little gift to everyone. We just released the music video to Ignation's new Christmas Medley, "Mary Did You Know/O Come, All Ye Faithful". I rarely work with video, so this was a lot of fun to do with them.

Holiday Card Project 2015

Last year, some of you may remember me posting about the Holiday Card project. The Holiday Card Project delivers cards to patients in the hospital during the Holiday Season and is run by DeviantArt. It's back around this year, and I just sent in some AGOM Art Holiday cards that I made.

The deadline to send in cards is December 14th, so there's only a couple days left to send in yours if you'd like to help out.

New Facebook Cosplay Page

Many of you follow my A Glimpse of Me Studios social media pages, of which I provide Art, Graphic Design, & Photography services. However, as many of you are aware, I also do cosplay. I'm often in cosplay myself when I'm photographing other cosplayers at conventions. Being that costume design is more for fun and not really a service I generally provide, I created it's own facebook page to specifically showcase my cosplay work, as well as feature other cosplayers and give some cosplay tips.

Instagram Behind the Scenes (& Separating Personal from Work)

Some of you who follow me on my various social media pages may have noticed I have separate accounts for AGOM and for my personal pages.

Otakon Fundraiser

So, I mentioned in a poll on DeviantArt that I plan on going to Otakon (August 8th-10th), however, I don't have the funds yet to do so. Oddly enough, it's been really on my heart to go this year. So I'm hosting a little fundraiser, which some seemed to think was a good idea based on the poll. Here's how it will work:

My Two Month Disappearance (Update)

So many of you who follow my deviantArt page already found out that my hard drive had crashed about 2 months ago, hence why I haven't been posting much work and haven't kept up with the weekly portrait project either.

However I'm now announcing that my computer is up & running again and I now have a larger internal hard drive, plus a 3 TB backup so I don't have to worry about losing my work again! I'll have to spend some time playing catch up, but at least I can work again and there will be many art posts soon to follow!

To see the original post announcing my hard drive crash and what I've learned from it, click below:

http://aglimpseofme.deviantart.com/journal/Sorry-For-My-Disappearance-454354377

Announcing...

Announcing: a self portrait photo project. There's a photographer who goes by the name "Lauren Lemon", and she had a photo project a while back where she posted a new self portrait every day for a year straight. Leaving her with 365 photos that I believe she turned into a photo book. So this got me inspired to do something similar. Except, instead of once a day, I will be posting a group of photos from a shoot once a week. I'm not sure if I'll do it for a whole year; but basically until I run out of ideas or no longer have time to. Each shoot will have a completely different theme.

Holiday Card Project

Join in on this lovely holiday project that sends cards to patients in different hospitals throughout the U.S.! You can either buy a card or make your own and you'll be able to bring someone a little extra cheer this holiday season! Click the link below for more information and for the address to send them to. This project is created by DeviantArt however you do not need to be a member to participate. AGOM is very excited to be able to participate in this project. 

Holiday Card Project Info

Deadline is December 17th!

10% Going to Love146

Starting this day forward, 10% of all purchases and money that comes in will be going to an organization working to end child sex slavery called Love146. This is something strong on my heart to be involved in. Learn more about the organization at www.love146.org.

 You can also learn about the history of Love146 and the story behind their name in this video:

New Photo Collection Coming

I've recently started a new collection of pieces that I will be selling. The first one is available to buy and is a small 4"x6" piece since it was the first of the collection to be released. These pieces are photos I've taken myself, printed in black & white, and then painted over in certain areas in color with Acrylic paint. These are great artistic alternatives for when you don't have the money to spend on a more pricey full on painting.

Working with Bananerd Media

Aside from doing A Glimpse of Me work, I teamed up with Bananerd Multimedia Production for a while doing graphic designing.

Some of the work I did includes site mockups, site graphics, design help, minor code editing and photo editing like I did here for the Aci Nae site: