Weird question - do you think you'd be as into prints if it wasn't for riso? You've gotten me hooked on the printing style and I now pay a lot more attention to tables at cons and artists who have a heavy riso collection of prints or zines. I noticed a lot of riso artists tend to heavily lean into prints, but you do a lot of really fun alternative merch, the cd keychains, that tin, etc. do you think you'd still be doing as many prints if it was more """traditional""" glycee?
I would I think! My drawing background comes heavily from being inspired by poster art, and before riso I loved screen printing. I loved graphic posters and realized towards the end of college that was a field I wanted to go in (though I did not entirely end up in that field, I did end up in something similar and do make posters for work from time to time). I started riso because it was like screen printing, but with someone who had no studio access to pursue screen printing fully post college, I turned to riso.
So I wouldn't say I would've turned to glycee per se, but I would've gone onto screen printing somehow I think (as of now, I do have studio access but I just never go haha)
I prefer paper merch bcs it's what I like, I'm not really a charm or other trinket person unless it's really cool to me. When I go to cons I tend to go for zines and original stickers if I buy anything, and if I can score a cool graphic print even better. I'm not much of fanart print buyer, unless the print looks like a poster piece-- which is what I try to do if that makes sense