28 | She/Her | | Aroace, floating through space
Hey there, I'm Katie!
I'm a hydra of interests including character design, graphic design, illustration, comics, and a background in animation!
Welcome to my OC collection, hope you like what you see!
Here you'll find information about my original characters and worlds, whether they're established stories or one-off creations.
There are spoilers afoot, though a lot of this is still subject to change anyway!
If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask!
(be prepared for a word dump though, I'm a wordy bird when talking about characters and stories, haha)
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(please note that I'm really only active online in a "post and run" kind of way, so please be patient with regards to messages, I'll get back to you as soon as I'm able!)
Latest Bulletin
Hey everybody, I launched my webcomic again! And on the project’s 9th anniversary too :D
The first two pages are now live at https://starglasszodiac.com/ ! The next page is scheduled for July 22nd, so feel free to check it out if you want! The dates for future page uploads will be announced on the site’s home page, and I’ve got a Chapter 1 cover in the works too, so stay tuned for those later on :) If you'd like to see the character folder for this project in the meantime, go here! https://toyhou.se/Akysi/characters/folder:592222 Beware of spoilers and more things changing with development though!
The upload schedule for the comic itself will be determined at a later date, as I’m going at my own pace to ensure that I’m satisfied with every page at my current skill level, like I do with my other work. That will likely mean a slow pace for uploads, and I am sorry for that ^^’ But, I’ve had this as a passion project for a long time and I want to give it the time and attention it deserves. Regardless, I am SUPER excited to finally be doing this again, no matter how long it takes!
With having this project for nearly a decade, working on it has gotten me through many, many tough times. The amount of support and enthusiasm that I’ve received from all you lovely people over the years has been nothing short of heartwarming, so thank you all so much <3 I hope you like what you see, and look forward to more. :D Thanks for reading, friends!
Hey! I found your blog through your post on Writing With Color and I really like your character designs! Could you tell me a bit more about Id Pariah as a story (I love the name of it)?
2 years, 6 months ago
Well hey there, thanks for looking for my art after seeing that post! :D Sorry for the late reply though, I guess comment notifications are easier to miss on Toyhouse ^^’
And I’m really glad to hear that, thank you! <3 As for Id Pariah, that’s one of my more nebulous story ideas right now, as it has been a few years since I’ve done much with the concept in general. As a character designer I usually end up with a bunch of “story seedlings”, mostly because I like coming up with titles and protagonists so much, haha! That said, I can still tell you a bit about it :)
Id Pariah focuses around Kale, Nahra, and Tess, brought together more for the sake of their collective survival at first. Everyone in this world has an id (rhymes with kid), a manifestation of their soul/identity that develops over time, much like their hosts. Not all ids manifest physically, however, and even fewer are permanently fused to one’s body in some way (called hybrids). Nahra is a hybrid, being able to switch between a human and tiger form, but her right arm is always a tiger’s paw no matter how much of her power she’s using.
The general concept is inspired by the id, the part of your psyche that contains primal instinct, so it has themes of nature vs. nurture, overcoming personal limitations, and how one’s identity changes over time and under certain circumstances. A pariah is an outsider, particularly to society, and those in power in this story have deemed some as unfit or dangerous based on the ids they possess, so they actively hunt those they’ve labelled as such, including our main three. All Kale remembers at the start of the story is that he killed someone; he doesn’t know who, why, or even how, and that serves as an overarching mystery for his part.
Like I said before, it’s not a concept I have done much work or worldbuilding for in a while (including the character designs now that I think about it), but the characters are pretty fun to draw and I look forward to developing it more in the future. :) Apologies for the word dump here but thanks for asking anyway, I appreciate it! ^_^
2 years, 6 months ago