Recently I get to booth for the third time in Kira Kira Art Market! It’s a cute and chill art market organized by artists for artists, which I can feel the care and support the team has prepared each time I joined. It’s the kind of event I get to interact and meet other artists in the community in a more chill space too.
So first of all, thank you for all the support! 💖 I was quite tired at the event as I didn’t expect the crowd and venue size compared to its previous events and I had some printing scheduling issues since the event is close to Comifuro next month, but it was overall a valuable experience. I’m thankful for all the help, gifts, and interest in my work that I received during the event and its preps! 🙏🏼
Here’s my booth setup for this event! I’m sharing table with my friend Kirara from Neko Fingerprint once more – here I drawn our mascots chilling together at the booth! This time the event is in Chillax Sudirman, and we get to set up a day before which is super helpful.
In this event we can’t book multiple tables (like other events such as CF where we can take up like 3-4 tables), so it’s pretty interesting to see each table focused for max of two artist brands. Do check out her cute merch too by the way!
Here’s a quick video of the booth showcase too!
@devpotata I was at Kira Kira Art Market 4 in Chillax Sudirman! Here's how my booth was like, I get to booth together with @kirara_cecilvenes for the third time for this event! We get to launch our new collab merch series here too with the gacha machines for visitors to play with! It's a cute and chill art market, I'm grateful to get to interact with other artists in the community and people who are interested in my art there! Thank you for all the support in the event! For those who missed out our merch can also check out our online shops or find us on next events - our next stop will be at Comifuro XX! . . #artistalley #artistalleylife #merch #smallbusinessowner #artistsoftiktok ♬ original sound - Devonazure
Just like the Kira Kira Art Market last year, we get to launch a new collab project this event too! We launched the cute Food x Animal merch lineup, following up the Dessert x Animal series we made last year that we’re very happy to see all the support for. We hope you enjoyed our new designs too!
This time it’s also available to play with gacha machine! It’s fun to see visitors playing it and guessing what they’ll get and their reactions after.
Here’s all the 6 designs we made, and special bookmark for those who made 3 purchases! Each purchase comes with a set of glitter sticker and keychain – yes you’ll get both for each gacha so each pull is a win, no need to worry to get between sticker or keychain only!
These items will be available in future events we attend, as well in my Tokopedia or Kirara’s Tokopedia shop. They’re also available for Comifuro booking pickup!
We also have other collab merch we have made together before – like these prints (used to be gacha but we changed them to the new designs now), and the transparent sticker sheet!
Another cute aspect I enjoyed each Kira Kira Art Market is to see everyone’s variants of drawing the event’s mascots Kari and Furi! I also made my own limited bonus stickers for the event featuring them and my own mascots Kokoba and Ayayam!
Each year there’s a theme for the main event illustration too that is loosely adapted by the other artists. Like last time the themes were picnic, matsuri summer festival, and now restaurant kind of theme. Here are some of the sticker bonus I have designed limited for the event!
By the end of the day, I get to update my sticker book with the cute stickers I got from other artists in the event – it’s so cute to see all the different artstyles and takes on to draw the mascots and the theme, it’s satisfying to see them all put together in these pages! Sticker books have been a great investment for me since I like collecting and documenting stuff from boothing events heheheh :p
Not only from other booth artists, we also get a special treat gift package from the organizer team! This part makes me happy to see each time I’m joining since the merch is cute and got unique idea each time.
This time we get sticker sheets and a keychain with a rotating magnet part, and comes with a package of stickers, Mildliner highlighter and a transparent pouch to neatly keep them all in! The sticker sheet is part of the stamp rally for every booth, where visitors can get a stamp for minimum 50k purchase and can get cute rewards like sticker sheets and a chance for a figure of the event’s mascots! I was surprised to see the mascot figures, they look adorable!
The event team also went to assist tenants by posting them separately in their event social media (like even if my table is shared, each artist get a separate promo post – unlike some events which only allow one post per table with all artists mixed in).
They also checked in regularly with the artists on our preparations and even provided us with booth signs, trash plastic bags, and display acrylic to show Blu promotion if we join the program. These may seem like simple things but I greatly appreciate the care given to those who joined the event and makes it a warm welcome for us participating, so kudos to the KKAM team!
Even the food and beverage tenants have their own cute merch and collabs! We can get these limited cute stickers themed with the actual food and drinks. I tried out this cute 3D latte from Zenlatte collab with #acupofdreams and it feels like a shame to drink and ruin it 🥲 and there’s this cute cat figure to promote the salty bread from Hekyuro is so cute!
I also got a bunch of snacks and drinks, thank you so much! This is super helpful when I’m starting to zone out while attending the booth and I can just start snacking away hehehe and I was surprised one of the gifts I received is an actual Indomie pack?? 🤣 Truly something memorable of the day!
During the event I feel I get to observe and learn new things to think about on to improve for my own merch works. Honestly I feel a bit anxious of course to see the other artists here and there are of course sometimes I feel some doubts of my own work haha, especially since I felt I couldn’t prepare this event as much as I wanted due to work and tight scheduling between one thing and another, but I know things just happen not always as planned and instead of regret, I just need to focus on what I can do next and I did what I can.
I also feel that attending booth events made me feel energized when I get to interact directly with people who are interested in my art and I saw some visitors wearing my merch makes me happy and helped me to keep going 🥲 and when familiar faces of friends showing up and taking their time to visit my booth and help me is such a moodbooster. So again, thank you for all the support and I do mean it each time after a boothing event I can’t help to feel quite emotional and sappy, so do excuse me🤣
Seeing all these cool artist booths also inspired ideas for me and sparked some thoughts in my brain to plan of what I should do next. While I’m still planning and preparing things which will need time, hopefully I can get them done step by step over the upcoming events so stay tuned!
