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Posted 7 years agoI've got an overflowing stack of my OCs profiles and reference sheets, some dating back to July 2017, so need to upload them
Hiatus
Posted 8 years agoI'm terribly sorry for the lack of content lately but I've gotten Shingles and it's made it incredibly hard to focus on work. Especially today when I've had a migraine all day, I've been asleep most of today.
Once I am healthy again, I'll get back to fixing my sleep schedule and posting again
Once I am healthy again, I'll get back to fixing my sleep schedule and posting again
26th of June Update
Posted 8 years agoI have been on an unofficial hiatus for a few weeks now, due to my mental health. This led to me getting a new psych, having a new assessment on my mental health and we are still in the middle of figuring out what medication is best suited for me. I’ve been trying to get back into routine, however I am not going to be too surprised if I lapse in and out of being active online when I’m tried on new medication doses and the like.
Next part of update is that I will be submitting, if I can, 2 entries into Shonen Jump’s Universal Manga Contest. Yes, chance of me even being a finalist is slim, however this is a good way to get exposure at the very least.
At this point of time, I will like to work on and then submit Sugar Star Act 1, due to it working as a one-shot/pilot. As per the rules of the contest, this means I will be deleting all Sugar Star comics off every site which they were posted and will not be posting any more until Spring 2018, after the judging and thus end of the contest. This is a pity, as I was 3/4 through the act however Sugar Star is my pride and joy and has everything that I adore in story-writing along with things I love about manga. However, after reading the rules and terms etc. of the contest, doesn’t mean I can’t stop posting pictures, character references of characters from Sugar Star, so you’ll still see them around.
Next part of update is that I will be submitting, if I can, 2 entries into Shonen Jump’s Universal Manga Contest. Yes, chance of me even being a finalist is slim, however this is a good way to get exposure at the very least.
At this point of time, I will like to work on and then submit Sugar Star Act 1, due to it working as a one-shot/pilot. As per the rules of the contest, this means I will be deleting all Sugar Star comics off every site which they were posted and will not be posting any more until Spring 2018, after the judging and thus end of the contest. This is a pity, as I was 3/4 through the act however Sugar Star is my pride and joy and has everything that I adore in story-writing along with things I love about manga. However, after reading the rules and terms etc. of the contest, doesn’t mean I can’t stop posting pictures, character references of characters from Sugar Star, so you’ll still see them around.
Pen Broke
Posted 9 years agoSo yeah, it just stopped being responsive at all. Tried to fix it and I think I just made it worse, put in the order for the new pen so HOPEFULLY it'll be here by the 6th. If anyone has been wondering about commissions, right now they would be super helpful because now missing $100+ replacing this pen :')
What 2016 has been to me
Posted 9 years agoThis is a long ramble from me, thinking back on the year. Long and not edited…
So it’s almost universally accepted that 2016 has been a terrible year and everyone can’t wait for 2017, this year however was the hardest for me personally.
For those that do not know, my father passed away back in November 2015 and to summarise my relationship with my father in one word, it would be ‘confusing’. When I was very little, I remember him being a great father however the older I got, the more his health declined, the more strained our relationship got. My father became my biggest source of anxiety, both because I was the only one home to care for him and also because I was his easy target when he wanted to bully and take his anger out verbally at.
So when he passed away in his sleep, I felt this huge weight lifted from my shoulders. All this anxiety was gone. No longer did I have to worry about screwing up, no longer did I have to hide things like being bisexual and no longer did I have someone questioning every single thing I did.
However, my anxiety then became focused on money because we fell into terrible trouble when it came to money, honestly we are still broke but things personally for me have been getting a lot better in the past 2 months. Along with that, I felt these strange, conflicting emotions from my father passing, I just spent days sitting around not doing anything, in numb depression. Didn’t feel like drawing, or playing games, I just wanted to stay in bed.
On a complete random impulse, I bought the first book of Dawn of the clans series in Warriors. I hadn’t touched the series in a while, so I just thought it would give me some nostalgia and something to do since I knew I was suffering from depression. I hadn’t read anything pass Dark River in the series and next thing I now, I’m completely caught up with the series. Yes, there are a few things I don’t like about the series however those are just little pet peeves from me as a perfectionist, attention to detail storywriter like myself. So, Warriors, these cat books mass made for children really, has a special place in my heart for helping me through that tough period at the start of the year. Only just recently have I found the community, like LZRD WZRD, Moonkitti, Tennelleflowers, Blixemi and honestly so many great and funny people that just all like these cat books and do brilliant things with them.
This also helped me become creative again. Back in 2011, I loved writing and had so many stories all written on random documents on different computers, in school books, on random scrap paper however when I entered my final year in high school back in 2012, being in the top English class and having classes where I would have to do nothing but write essay after essay to simply teach myself to write faster… my love for writing disappeared. Reading these cat books, there were times where the writing was nice and stirred emotion and times where I was getting annoyed at missed opportunities, I wondered what I could do in their situation. I started to want to make stories again, however to merge it with my love of drawing, which turned into Sugar Star, my own series.
Sitting beside me is a huge folder filled with things like timelines, family trees, my fantasy species information, character motivations… I got my love of writing back and whenever I see someone I follow post a new animation, post a new picture, talk about their characters, it makes me want to work harder.
I went to Japan in July, never again do I want to go to Japan in summer. Australia’s summers are dry heat, I was not ready for the humidity I felt in Osaka and Tokyo during late July and August. However, just as going to Japan and America back in 2014, I felt happier and had a lot of time to think about things. I became more determined to get myself out of this melancholic rut I had put myself into. After my father passed, I almost cut all ties to my friends I talked to online, I lost my confidence in talking to new people online. Leading my boyfriend and friend around Japan, being the one that new a decent amount of Japan I had to step in and translate and mumble my way around Japanese, I got that confidence boost. I mean if I can ask in crummy Japanese about how my friend wants to purchase that Jojo figure, I can talk to my friends and be social online.
Japan itself, I loved it, Osaka was amazing and again, I want to go back and see even more of it and learn more Japanese.
2016 has been hard. Things are still a little difficult, I still gotta make sure I keep my anxiety in check, my antidepressant dosage got doubled to help me, my insomnia can still be a butt some nights and I’m still pretty shy when it comes to talking in stream chats and to people online however I survived it. New Year’s Eve is my favourite holiday, because it’s exciting to me. A new year, it’s promising to me to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes and when I do my end of year picture of Zoey Hoshi, I see that I’ve gotten better.
For 2017, I want to be more confident online and honestly in general, I don’t want to shut myself off from my friends online again. I want to be more productive and draw more, as much as my RSI can handle and get even better.
Thank you to everyone that has supported me, thanks to you, I survived this year.
So it’s almost universally accepted that 2016 has been a terrible year and everyone can’t wait for 2017, this year however was the hardest for me personally.
For those that do not know, my father passed away back in November 2015 and to summarise my relationship with my father in one word, it would be ‘confusing’. When I was very little, I remember him being a great father however the older I got, the more his health declined, the more strained our relationship got. My father became my biggest source of anxiety, both because I was the only one home to care for him and also because I was his easy target when he wanted to bully and take his anger out verbally at.
So when he passed away in his sleep, I felt this huge weight lifted from my shoulders. All this anxiety was gone. No longer did I have to worry about screwing up, no longer did I have to hide things like being bisexual and no longer did I have someone questioning every single thing I did.
However, my anxiety then became focused on money because we fell into terrible trouble when it came to money, honestly we are still broke but things personally for me have been getting a lot better in the past 2 months. Along with that, I felt these strange, conflicting emotions from my father passing, I just spent days sitting around not doing anything, in numb depression. Didn’t feel like drawing, or playing games, I just wanted to stay in bed.
On a complete random impulse, I bought the first book of Dawn of the clans series in Warriors. I hadn’t touched the series in a while, so I just thought it would give me some nostalgia and something to do since I knew I was suffering from depression. I hadn’t read anything pass Dark River in the series and next thing I now, I’m completely caught up with the series. Yes, there are a few things I don’t like about the series however those are just little pet peeves from me as a perfectionist, attention to detail storywriter like myself. So, Warriors, these cat books mass made for children really, has a special place in my heart for helping me through that tough period at the start of the year. Only just recently have I found the community, like LZRD WZRD, Moonkitti, Tennelleflowers, Blixemi and honestly so many great and funny people that just all like these cat books and do brilliant things with them.
This also helped me become creative again. Back in 2011, I loved writing and had so many stories all written on random documents on different computers, in school books, on random scrap paper however when I entered my final year in high school back in 2012, being in the top English class and having classes where I would have to do nothing but write essay after essay to simply teach myself to write faster… my love for writing disappeared. Reading these cat books, there were times where the writing was nice and stirred emotion and times where I was getting annoyed at missed opportunities, I wondered what I could do in their situation. I started to want to make stories again, however to merge it with my love of drawing, which turned into Sugar Star, my own series.
Sitting beside me is a huge folder filled with things like timelines, family trees, my fantasy species information, character motivations… I got my love of writing back and whenever I see someone I follow post a new animation, post a new picture, talk about their characters, it makes me want to work harder.
I went to Japan in July, never again do I want to go to Japan in summer. Australia’s summers are dry heat, I was not ready for the humidity I felt in Osaka and Tokyo during late July and August. However, just as going to Japan and America back in 2014, I felt happier and had a lot of time to think about things. I became more determined to get myself out of this melancholic rut I had put myself into. After my father passed, I almost cut all ties to my friends I talked to online, I lost my confidence in talking to new people online. Leading my boyfriend and friend around Japan, being the one that new a decent amount of Japan I had to step in and translate and mumble my way around Japanese, I got that confidence boost. I mean if I can ask in crummy Japanese about how my friend wants to purchase that Jojo figure, I can talk to my friends and be social online.
Japan itself, I loved it, Osaka was amazing and again, I want to go back and see even more of it and learn more Japanese.
2016 has been hard. Things are still a little difficult, I still gotta make sure I keep my anxiety in check, my antidepressant dosage got doubled to help me, my insomnia can still be a butt some nights and I’m still pretty shy when it comes to talking in stream chats and to people online however I survived it. New Year’s Eve is my favourite holiday, because it’s exciting to me. A new year, it’s promising to me to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes and when I do my end of year picture of Zoey Hoshi, I see that I’ve gotten better.
For 2017, I want to be more confident online and honestly in general, I don’t want to shut myself off from my friends online again. I want to be more productive and draw more, as much as my RSI can handle and get even better.
Thank you to everyone that has supported me, thanks to you, I survived this year.
Hello yet again
Posted 9 years agoZoey Hoshi is active again on FA, on this new account, Zoey Hoshi Studios. Since I unfortunately lost access to my last one, I'm starting up again and fresh on here. Expect to see more soon.
