Katopolitan

Toying around with a concept~

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And the process pics for those of y'all who are into that!

Sketch -> Color Test -> Flats -> Shading

Hey gang~

Been going through it, but I'm still here! Thought I'd do a little piece of the 'sona to try work the rust off.

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Beautiful! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. 😭💕 (Still is, of course!)

I get that, definitely. You'll figure it out!

Dude, you deserve a HUGE sprinkle of confidence! This looks great!

Yeah, she's fiiine.

I'm still not great at exaggerating facial expressions (or at expressions in general) but I'm working on it!

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Whatever it is, Vivi clearly knows and is gonna let it play out to see what happens.

Because sometimes you gotta draw your characters happy.

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ANOTHER ONE

SEAL YOUR STASH, FOLKS

The nice thing about my job is that you can be having an extremely busy, difficult, and emotionally draining day...

...and then somebody brings in a couple of kittens. 💕

Feel free to take your pick between 'em!
bsky.app/profile/kato...

Hey, there -- your friendly neighborhood veterinary assistant here with a little reminder~

KEEP YOUR WEED OUT OF REACH OF YOUR DOG

We've seen so freakin' many weed tox patients already this month. Your Labradoodle doesn't know the difference between your edible and a dog treat.

#vetmed

I've been trickling some previews to @scifiheroine.bsky.social, so there'll be something to show relatively soon!

And just because I wanted to see all the goobers together, I took the full-body pics from their respective sheets and slapped 'em together.

It's not perfect, but I'm awfully darn proud of how these turned out both art-wise and character design-wise.

Harold Ramis said the message of Ghostbusters was "There's nothing you can imagine that you can't confront if you do it with courage, and intelligence, and ingenuity, and good friends by your side," and that's the vibe I'm taking into this -- hopefully with just as many scares, laughs, and heart.

And just because I wanted to see all the goobers together, I took the full-body pics from their respective sheets and slapped 'em together.

It's not perfect, but I'm awfully darn proud of how these turned out both art-wise and character design-wise.

And with that, the main cast is set!

I'm not used to drawing more muscular dudes, but I think I finally figured it out in the end.

(Axton Ross is the creation of @barcode76.bsky.social. Used with permission!)

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Also, I'd pretty much still need a smartphone for work anyway, since everywhere expects you to clock in on your phone nowadays. (And yay work group chats.)

The soaring elation of discovering that the Nokia 3210 came back in 2024 and is cheap enough for my budget is matched only by the crushing realization it doesn't work with my family's phone plan.

Shit.

a digital drawing of a gray cat with a capped eye and studded collar, leaning forward and bleeding from the nose. It looks at the viewer with defiance or determination. Text around it says “get killed eight times/ come back nine”. The red border around the image has two cars, arrows, knives, and poison bottles, numbered to match its deaths.

Keep Trying
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Oh, because a friend reminded me the other day that it's maybe *not* as intuitive as I thought -- my username is a combination of my name (Kato) and my favorite ice cream (neapolitan)!

(Why neapolitan? Because I'm stupidly indecisive about which flavor I want to eat at any given time.)

A medium close-up shot of an androgynous person looking up and to the right wistfully with a small smile on their face. They have eyeliner and their left eye is pink while their right eye is brown, both with white irises. Their hair is messy (half pink and half brown with wisps streaks of white scattered all over) and tied back up into a bun. They're wearing a dark brown choker, have a star sticker on their right cheek, and two bandaids on their left arm, one pink and one brown. There is a thin white bangle on their left arm as well. Their right stretches out of the frame as though they might be taking a selfie. They're wearing a vest and t-shirt combination with the vest being a darker pink and the shirt faintly purple. They are standing against a pink backdrop with a large white circle in the middle, framing them above the shoulders. The name "Katopolitan" is situated at the 11-o'clock position outside of the circle.

It was way past time to update my PFP, so I finally went ahead and got it done. I'm pretty darn happy with how it turned out, even if it did end up looking a little like a Picrew.

Regardless, howdy -- I'm Kato. I still draw cute girls, tough guys, and creepy mysteries.

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I cannot overstate how huge an influence CCS has been on my creative works over the years. 😭💕

Chugging right along! What's got our girl in such a tizzy, though, I wonder?

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If only I knew.

おはようございます🥫♨️

Before I went any further, I slapped the two side by side to make sure they felt cohesive. I like to think they read well enough as twins and hopefully their designs are clear enough to give you a sense of who the two are without needing all the extra text in the main sheets.

I'm happy with it!