kayzowl

history of a kaz

If you want an overview of my interests and progression over the years, this is the place! It's a little chaotic, but that's me for you.

art of my impsona, Baz, a blue imp with platinum blonde hair, floating in the air in front of an art tablet with a tiny plushie of Blitz from Helluva Boss in front.

This is Baz, my impsona from my newst fandom. but Baz's original form was actually a little different.

art of a girl with short, wavy blonde hair wearing sunglasses with an ampharos, alolan raichu, blitzle, and chinchou. — Baz started as a gymleadersona in May of 2018! I decided I was an electric gym leader, and this was my team, back when the hashtag got popular. This design will return for a few different incarnations before eventually becoming Baz :)

going a little farther back...

art of Lucina dressed as Marth with her mask over a burning, fiery background.

Fire Emblem

i got into fire emblem some time around 2005 when i found the gba game in a gamestop and bought it with my allowance, and have been a fan ever since. especially fe7 and awakening

My friends weren't real big into video games, so I didn't really have anyone to nerd out with until Awakening came out in 2012 and I was getting more active in online spaces. I've made a lot of friends over the years in this fandom, it's a gift that keeps on giving (even if I haven't enjoyed all of the new games as much as the ones I played as a kid. They're good games! But they're less my taste).

cover for my itch sketchbook, Wyvern Friend, featuring a graphic cutout of Cherche's face. — i made a solo zine for Cherche. Cherche fire emblem, my beloved...

cover for my itch sketchook, Allies or Enemues, with Guy's Killing Edge sword and Matthew's oathpaper. — I made one for matthew and guy a couple years after that, too

sketch of Brady covered in kittens. — Brady covered in kittens, which might be the best thing I've ever drawn.

art of Say'ri kissing Tiki on the cheek. — look at the gay smoochies

I also wrote a matt/guy fic, i follow just to find you, that takes place post-canon. it might be my magnum opus? it took about ten years to cook in my head before I was able to actually write it

homestuck

After a couple false starts my friend finally got me to read homestuck in 2012, while we were studying abroad. I caught up right before Cascade dropped and was a fan through to the end of the webcomic, and remember my time in the fandom fondly

I have fantrolls and was a huge multishipper (especially when quadrants got involved) but was particularly fond of johnkat and jade and aradia. and terezi and vrisrezi. i had a lot of interests, okay, i have two hands and four quadrants to work with don't test me

art of godtier karkat flying in a colorful, dreamlike sky. — godtier karkat

Eridan, Dave, and John are all clinging to Karkat. — John: Karkaaat!
Dave: nope, sorry. shouty mcnubs has been claimed for the day. he can't come to the phone right now. please leave a message after the beep. ...*beep*
Eridan: fuck that, kar's mine today, ive got serious thins that need addressin, back off!

pastel drawing of Dave Strider at a turntable mixing music. — dave doin music

art of a possessed crockertier John Egbert. — crockertier john

gif of karkat in a library on his tiptoes trying to reach for a book as Dave watches. — Dave: can i help you there karkles. karbro. karkalicious. karkaberry. karkenstine.
Karkat: SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Dave: karkanator. karkaroni. do not release the karken. I can go all day
Karkat: I FUCKING HATE YOU

an olive-blooded fantroll in an oversized sweater with a wingnut around her horn. — I also have a fantroll, Tiki, who I am planning to add to my OC Directory eventually.

I participated in the Homestuck Shipping World Cup for a couple years, and made a whole ton of stuff for those events, which you can see on my shipping olympics page.

sports anime

For a while after homestuck the only big fandom I was in for a long time was sports anime. I would hop around and try out new shows but I went back to haikyuu!! a lot and then I found oofuri (Ookiku Furikabutte). I will always be a huge fan of hq and oof! they both mean a lot to me and i made some really good friends doing fan events (shipping olympics and sportsfest) every year.

OH also Chihayafuru is incredible and I cannot recommend that one highly enough, it's SO good

Hinata and Kageyama in their volleyball uniforms mid-game with black wings. — oh kagehina the legend that u are

rough art in shades of bright pink. Abe is leaning over Mihashi with a hand tugging on his shirt, both of them smiling. — if you thought "oh no, is there gonna be another solo zine the answer is yes, and you are beginning to detect a pattern, bravo 👏

zine cover with a boy in a baseball uniform, title: my number one. — abemiha is my ride or die okay. when covid happened and we went into months of lockdown my reaction was to make a 60 page book for them

pacific rim

bioware

rough art of male Hawke and Fenris in an embrace. — The same friend who got me into homestuck also lured me into Dragon Age and Bioware games, and what a journey that's been

she also artfully set me up to have to make the most horrific choice I've ever had to make in a video game (Inquisition, in the Fade) and I'm scarred for life. It was absolutely masterful. I will remember that moment until the day I die

Hawke Squad running, likely having just gotten into trouble, that I made into mini prints and coin purses for conventions.

Sera from Inquisition leaping from a tree holding a bow.

tarot card design of my friend's inquisitor.

the foxhole court

by nora sakavich

i will never forget the first time i encountered a story with a character who basically has my exact sexuality. shit's lifechanging when you've gone your whole life assuming you were the only one!

Neil and Andrew chatting in a kitchen. — i will love this series with my entire soul for as long as i exist. longer, probably. i should do more art for it...

hellaverse

or maybe more accurately, stolitz

i goddamn love these fuckass demons. they have everything i could ever want in a ship, but especially the mutual pining, the deep empathy, the monsterfuckery, the learning and growing to be better for each other...

there was no way i wasn't gonna be feral for them, and for this extremely fun sandbox i get to play in

moody art of a dark, low-lit restaurant in mostly blues and purples. Blitz, wearing a black leather jacket, is sitting up on the top of a booth his face inches from Stolas', who is standing very close to him, both leaning in as they gaze at each other longingly and blush (they are not smart, or subtle).

art of Stolas and Blitzø wearing dresses and chatting as they walk through a messy, overgrown garden painted very loosely and ill-defined in bright purples and blues.

art with a muted purple-yellow palette of Blitzø from Helluva Boss, a red imp with large striped horns, cooking in a small, cozy kitchen and leering at Stolas, a feathered owl demon, who is sitting on the counter in only his robe.

conventions

photo of a pile of colorful mini prints of my art.

How To Train Your Dragon print of Hiccup riding Toothless high in the sky at sunset in a cloudy sky. — httyd print

other influences...

I've had a lot of other things over the years that have stuck with me for various reasons, and these are most of them! Some I love for the characters, other for the story or worldbuilding or art, some because of the fandom and the friends I made because of them, and a million other myriad reasons.