More surveys.....yay!

1)  What country do you live in?  

- United States

2)  What do you predominantly collect, Western ( 
Disney, WB, Bluth, Film Roman, etc. ) or Eastern 
( Anime ) animation art?

- Mostly Eastern Art (although I have a couple of 
pieces of Western Art)

3)  What makes up the majority of your 
collection?  Production Cels, Sketches, Gengas, 
Storyboards, etc?

- Production Cels

4)  What shows/movies/characters do you 
predominantly collect?

- CLAMP works tend to be my favorite.  I usually
focus on Magic Knights Rayearth and Card Captor 
Sakura cels. My favorite characters of which I 
have or would like to have more than one cel of 
include Lantis from Magic Knights Rayearth and
Evil Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi.  

5)  When selecting your pieces, what do you 
generally look for?  ( close-ups, action poses, 
character interactions, etc. )

- For Rayearth, my favorite series, I'm looking 
for nice close-ups of each of the characters. 
For any of my other cel purchases, I tend to 
buy them based on my favorite episodes or scenes 
that I particularly enjoyed from an anime movie
or series.  

6)  Where do you get the majority of your 
animation art?  ( Online Anime shops, Online 
Anime dealers, local comic stores, local anime 
shops, local animation art galleries ).

- Anime Dealers & Online Anime Shops

7)  On the average, about how much do you spend 
on animation art a month?

- My cel spending fluctuates from month to month 
depending on my own cash flow, availability of 
cels that I'd like to own, online site updates, 
conventions, and the occasional online anime 
dealer sale.  Generally, I spend anywhere from 
$0 to $500 a month.

8)  How long have you been collecting?

- Two years

9)  What is the most you have ever paid for one 
piece?  What show/character was it?

- Actually, the most expensive cel that I own is
of Evil Tamahome with his bandana from Fushigi 
Yuugi episode 20.  However, I actually traded a 
website's owner a couple of highly sought after 
wishlist cels to get it instead of paying a flat 
monetary value.  At the time, the hard to find 
cels that I traded were worth about $700. 

10)  Why do you collect animation art?  What 
draws 
you to it?

- The intrinsic artistic value of a hand painted 
animation cel still amazes me with the talent of
the artists and film makers that were required to
make an anime movie or series possible.  Of 
course, 
the simple answer could be that I just like the 
pretty colors.  *Shrugs* 

Good Luck!

Drakonia