I have ordered a few more T-shirts designs which I announced on my Patreon a while back. Go check them out as they’re now listed on Etsy!

Last year I designed these pride flag designs. I initially wanted to get them all printed onto t-shirts – but couldn’t afford the overhead costs. But following the success of attending and selling at my first convention since May 2019 (!!!), and after getting inspired by the holographic stickers that I saw there and on TikTok recently. I decided to get them printed as holographic stickers.

They’ve now arrived and look amazing. Please go check them out, and maybe purchase some?

Here is the Single Stickers Listing, but you get a discount if you order 4 or more using my Muiltipack listing

Here is a chart of the flags so far designed. If you have a (pride) flag that I haven’t done yet, let me know and I’ll design it for the next print run.

The [DEAD] SPACE OTTER II merch has come into stock now – grab them whilst they’re hot!

With the fact that I’m coming to the end of Orbit: Encounter Volume 1, and prepping to begin preproduction work on Volume 2, I thought I would be best to announce my new Patreon tiers. These include the much coveted cameo tiers for volume 2.

New Tier Released Today!

Cipher Code $30 per month

I have introduced a new tier, this one will entitle you to:

• Exclusive content that wont be released on lower tiers such as detailed character and environment designs that are made alongside the volume and chapter concept pages. These concept pieces will also have more detailed explanations about their creation and their role within the comic.
• One detailed commission every year (full body painting).
• As well as all previous rewards.

Cameo Tiers

I will be approaching those of you who I owe more than 8 digital sketches a discounted cameo tier, along with other options to trade in those owe pieces. Please let me know ASAP if you wish to take up those options.

Data Stream Release Date October 1st

$100 per month (if you upgrade, I will reimburse the previously subscribed tier if you get charged twice – once for new tier, once for old)

3 slots currently available

What your get:

• Your OC featured in at least 10 pages of Orbit: Encounter Volume 2 as a non-speaking character. Any species, any coloring.
• A choice of class which your character will play (i.e. engineer, merchant, solider, politician, etc)
• An exclusive pack of Orbit: Encounter themed references of your featured character. This will include outfit(s), tools/equipment, and an expression sheet.

I will liaise closely with you about what/how your character will be represented within the comic pages, so that the character best captures what you feel characterises their personality.

Deciphered Code Release Date October 1st

$160 per month (if you upgrade, I will reimburse the previously subscribed tier if you get charged twice – once for new tier, once for old)

2 slots currently available

What your get:

• Your OC featured in at least 5 pages of Orbit: Encounter Volume 2 as a speaking character, and 6 as a non-speaking character. Any species, any coloring.
• A choice of class which your character will play (i.e. engineer, merchant, solider, politician, etc)
• An exclusive pack of Orbit: Encounter themed references of your featured character. This will include outfit(s), tools/equipment, and an expression sheet.

I will liaise closely with you about what/how your character will be represented within the comic pages, so that the character best captures what you feel characterises their personality.

Future tiers

The further tiers – of one-to-one art tutorial tier, and the tier hiring me as a comic artist release will be announced in due course as I am no quite prepared for those.

Open for headshot commissions $125 USD

Any species – human/animal/mythical etc

Any theme (Halloween is coming, I will ensure its done in time!)

Apply here: https://forms.gle/vb5axqMmW6ibCcSr9

Hi all,

I’ve designed this and was hoping to get some tee’s printed, but I need some preorders in order to afford the bulk of tee’s. If you’d like to pre-order one please head to my google form: https://t.co/nGCEnF7fIS?amp=1

Hi everyone!

I hope you are all safe and well. Thank you for your patience, I have been far too distracted by covid-19 to be able to settle down and write an update for you all until now. The UK have finally declared a lockdown, I feel like a much less full of despair. I have been worried about the conventions I’m due to attend in the coming weeks, as they haven’t yet cancelled. I in all conscience can’t attend, as my wife, Speth, works with children who have complex needs so is classed as a key worker and thus I can’t risk catching the virus and making her sick. That meant that I would be sacrificing the money i had paid towards attending and the money lost in earnings. But now that the lockdown has been issued, I’m hopeful that the money won’t be lost, even if it is just with a rescheduling of the conventions to a later date.

Anyway all that aside, here is a page update. I am enjoying making this interlude despite it being quite a raw subject for me. As a kid I was belittled a lot for not being as academic as the majority of the class, and my dad was not the most ’emotionally stable’ when it came to parenting. I hope you are too. The scenes are tricky artistically, as the base colours I using feel very monotoned. This makes it harder for me to be inspired by it pre-shading, and means I’ll put it off.

I am hoping that the fact that I will be home much more means I’ll feel settled enough to start plowing through my current queue of commissions. I also might have an exciting job too!

Kariss signing off. STAY SAFE ALL.

Hi everyone,

I feel I’m past due updating you on why there hasn’t been a page update in quite a while, and boy, where do I start?
So you know I ran a kickstarter campaign which was fantastically successful. Well, during that campaign I got struck with a middle ear infection in BOTH my ears, that lead to them BOTH rupturing and my not being very well at all for two weeks, and not really being able to hear for three+ weeks. Once recovered, I then struggled trying to get back up to date with everything I hadn’t been able to work on in that time (including the day job), when about 3-4 weeks ago my wife’s uncle past away after being suddenly struck by several heart attacks which meant he had to be put in ICU. His death was very untimely, and hit her family hard.

As I was meant to have the kickstarter campaign’s book content finished by this month, that has meant I’ve had to put the regular webcomic updates on hold until the kickstarter book content has at least finished being drawn.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding, and I hope to have you more updates mid to late November.

On May 20th I’ll be launching the Kickstarter to try and fund the first printing of the first 70 pages of Orbit: encounter. I would appreciate it so much if you could help fund this by at least spreading the word. There will be a huge variety of rewards from stickers and pins, to dufflebags, t-shirts and commissions.

Let the count down begin!