I’m back with another commission for the wonderful VioletStrike214 of her character, Seraph! Thank you once again for commissioning me, I got to draw a dragon for a commission and that is such a treat. :’D A dream come true for me, and during the Year of the Dragon too!

Absolutely HAD to draw something inspired by the eclipse today! :D I wasn’t in a location with totality but I was still lucky enough to see it from my building. It was cloudy at first so I wasn’t sure, but then it cleared right up for the maximum! What a treat :’D

I’ve had a few ref sheets in the works lately, and I got another one done today. :D Even after I decided to add her to Columba’s pirate crew, I’d been stumped for a LONG while on what direction to actually take with the design in general and FINALLY I have one that I really like, especially after giving her a more harpy-ish treatment to add more variety to the many bird constellations. Pretty proud of the symbol integration on this one too, some are easier than others! She’s the first I’ve fully completed of this group so things are bound to get tweaked later on, but this is a good start.

The name Apus means “without feet”, as apparently these birds were once thought to not have any, and I thought that would fit perfectly into a double peg-leg to match the pirate theme. A bird-of-paradise could be any number of species under that name though, so I’ve incorporated attributes from several here, particularly the sicklebills and the various species that have those distinct tail feathers, of both the long and curly varieties. Colour wise, she predominantly resembles the ribbon-tailed astrapia.

Columba’s crew isn’t exactly evil per se, but they have lost their way a bit after losing their former captain and their ship. Apus loves combat, not for the sake of the outcome, but for the act of combat itself. If you were to lose your weapon during a fight with her, she’d gladly give you one of hers just to continue it! She’ll also use her long talons to fight with, but only if she has no other weapons left. Hope you like her. :)

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The constellation symbol for Apus was originally designed by Denis Moskowitz and released to the public domain.

I’m super late to the party, but happy Year of the Dragon everybody! :D I needed something easy and fun to draw to take my mind off things, and came up with this little friend here. Though it has been a while since I’ve drawn a dragon amidst all my commissions and project work, I’m sure this still feels very “Katie Classic” for anyone who has known my work for a long time.

And just as a side note, I’m well aware of and completely against Tumblr’s recent AI bullshit. My blogs will continue like normal for the time being until I’ve had time to think over the best course of action. Thanks <3

Aaaaaahh my Lumi plush from @starteas arrived today! :’D (after being delivered to the wrong door in my building lol) I couldn’t resist taking a picture and drawing a few of my own star friends too :‘DDD

They all seem really curious about their new friend, and I bet they’re eager to give them a good home here ^_^

Go check out Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy @latgbg, it’s a very cool indie animation project!

Finally, some more art! This time it’s a complete redesign for Aranea; a new concept, personality, story role, colour scheme, the works! She was originally a minor character, and while that’s still somewhat true here, I’ve specifically tied her role to the main plot via her new concept, and the reason she’s nicknamed “The Star Weaver”. Using her magic needle, she’s able to “weave” remnants of dead constellations and create glass portraits of them, which are then placed in the astral mausoleum to preserve their memory. Conceptually speaking, I wanted to combine the idea of lines connecting stars in a constellation, the connecting lines in a spider’s web, and the lines between pieces of stained glass to create Aranea’s core idea here.

The constellation for Aranea is based on the yellow sac spider, labelled as the “long-legged spider” by its original mapper, though I’ve incorporated a bit of orb weavers to match the theming too. I did leave a few hints at her previous peacock spider inspiration, primarily in her glasses and head stripes. Her glasses are meant to be like large, dark voids that conceal her expression, you never quite know what she’s thinking. This matches with her overall aloof and quiet personality, usually only speaking when absolutely necessary.

The first two months of the year are always odd ones for me, usually a lot of aimless sketching and WIPs until something gets finished (outside of commission work, of course), but I really like how this came out! It took the usual amount of workshopping and I’ve had it as a WIP for a while, but luckily it didn’t fight me as much as I thought it might.

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Hey, I’ve got commissions open on my Ko-fi now! I’m inbetween contracts for the next two months, so any little bit helps donation wise, even just boosting helps! Thanks everyone~

Commission listings here!

Boosting it again because I’m out of work at the moment! ;w; If sales go well, I might offer a new listing for Icon Commissions too!

This was a carryover from last year so it’s now my first art of this year, another commission for VioletStrike214 on Twitter of her character Raiko! The devil was in the details on this one but it’s finally complete, and some of my best perspective work in a while. Easily one of the coolest designs I’ve ever been given to make a reference sheet for, thank you for commissioning me! <3

Happy New Year, time for my annual art summary! ^_^ I noticed in previous years that it’s hard to show off logo designs in cropped image sections, so I thought I’d add a logo section this time around, and probably will going forward :D

While 2023 itself was a uh… mixed bag to say the least (the bar is very low at this point), I can say that I did make some banger art pieces this year, even if it’s currently not as much or as frequently as I’d like yet. 2024 is the year of the dragon, and while that’s not my actual zodiac year, hopefully my love for them will translate to a better year overall. A girl can dream!

Outside of my ongoing commission work it has been a slow art month, but I still wanted to post something in December for my art summary so I picked one of my WIPs to finish up today :) I’ve been chipping away at the redesigns for Kiida’s parents for a while but was close enough to done already so here you go!

Since I have a better grasp of what I want their characters to be, I debated on whether I should give them slightly less monochromatic colour schemes compared to the first iteration, but considering what they represent in the story I think they still work to both match and contrast Kiida. I’ll be posting my art summary soon but for now, Happy New Year everybody!