Wish Upon A Star

This is the official blog of "Wish Upon A Star", a magical hero series made by Gloria Gloryheart

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Art Commissions????

Hey guys, if you are seeing this on this account (normally for Artw stuff) or one of my other accounts (cause I am reposting it to my others and I will clarify it is), I have come to make a mini announcement! There is this sight called Artistree, it's an art commission site and not only do I get to keep 100% of what I charge, customers have to pay a site fee, which that fee is used for the site AND to help plant trees for the environment!!! So at the moment, I decided to post up 20 slots for Bust shots, ranging from 15-17 USD (only one character per bust shot commission)! IF this goes well, then I may add more on there! A great way to help support me on this is by buying, but if you can't, then the second-best thing is to spread this out! I was very hesitant to do this again, most of my friends know that 4 years ago, I tried to do art commissions in a time where I desperately needed the money... and I never got any despite so many of my friends said they would buy... and I barely got any support on it cause 90% of art commissions ISN'T about the art, it's about spreading out. No one was spreading my commissions out other then... me. Everyone just assumed I would be fine cause "your art is great", that they ignored me when I did try to reach out for help. So even if you can't buy, it still means everything to me if you share this post to people, you know or your socials!! It will mean a lot to me even if its sharing to 1 person! You can find me on Artistree.io under "gloriagloryheart" or use the link!

https://artistree.io/gloriagloryheart

(I.... don't know why the link isn't hyperlinked.... uuuuuh.... tumblr???)

Until next time I post on any of my socials! (the additional tags are for my other tumblr blogs)

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It's been a bit since I used this account uuuuh... BOOM!!! Artist Commissions!! I am using artistree for them!!

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Welcome to Clarity

"Clarity" is a magical series where the planet is in danger by another planet that we used to be alliance with! An alliance that allowed civilization to expand and grow to advance as much as it has! After the alliance broke, the government thought to use these minerals with magical prosperities against the planet that gave them to us! One downside.... only those with the blood of the other planet CAN use them! Luckily for our planet, there are some people in the world who do! Now they launch a secret project, making magical girls with these minerals! Hitori, the first magical girl to succeed in fully harnessing the power, is now tasked to protect the planet and potentially find others, just like her, to help her in this goal! Stay tuned for more on the series, including art, short stories, fun facts, concepts, and more!

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While working on Wish Upon A Star, I will also be working on this smaller magical girl series. Reason? Wish Upon A Star has A LOT of lore and a lot more concepts and themes that drains me at times when working on it! Clarity is smaller with concepts and designs, making it easier to work on. So this series will be used as a way to relax.

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Magical Hero concept practice

So I decided to work on practicing designing more magical hero outfits with two constellations of choices to help get my brain working to work on the others.

So we have these two.

Since they are of the swan and Raven constellation, I wanted to base their outfits off to look like a ballerina and a figure skater as a way to tie together. Originally the ballerina idea for the swan was due to the ballet "The Swan Princess", the figure skater for the Raven came later as another form of elegant dancing that cause use some of the same forms.

I don't know if I will use these designs, but it was fun to make them, I even made these too.

Now with this exercise done and out of the way, I will return to working on the main cast designs.

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Character designs as of recent

Here is a little look on the designs we have so far made. Lucia/Galaxia got a slight change of color to her hair, now the tips have a purple to white gradient. Her staff has also got an update in design to look more structured and less like a mess. I am very proud of how the new staff looks compared to the old.

The hero now known as Candela hasn't changed mush other than adjusting the white in her hair to something that looks more natural. She honestly was the hardest in getting the hair to look less plain.

And the unnamed hero for now. I finally am comfortable with her hair colors. Her weapon was worked on recently. I decided to give her something like a sword that a pirate uses (I forgot what the actual blade is called-), it also has a compass on it due to how her abilities work and her being the Champion of the Sailor Compass Constellation!

Her design still remains my favorite.

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Random Update report

A little update on the series and how much progress I've made. 1. Half of the main hero cast are designed. - Their weapon designs have been finalized for those who I have the designs for - Have also decided on their powers and how they would work for battle 2. Have settled on one wing type I will be using for all the Stellar Crids. - Some of the Stellar Crids may look unusual with this? I hope they don't 3. Have a genuine idea what to name the heroes now. - The villain may name herself after the constellation that.... chose... her 4. Have finalized why the heroes were chosen to have the powers they do. With that update done, I shall return to slowly working on this series! Hopefully, I'll be able to show the designs when they are done

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I tested out Clip Studio Paint and made this WIP in it Used this to try and experiment with background layouting, and to get a better finalize design for Lucia/Galaxia

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1st Hero design

Lucia, the main character for Wish Upon A Star, is the first to get her hero design revamped!

As a reminder, here is what the original looked like

I love the way the choker necklace look. Since she is the Champion of the Chained Princess, I wanted her to have chains. However, I didn't like how the chain like belt looks... It felt out of place in a way I can't explain. The sleeves I love, but I feel like it would be a pain to fight in, plus I planned to potentially make another form for the characters, and I rather use the sleeves for that. Including to the list of being hard to fight in, I thought a tight miniskirt would be tough to fight in. The cape, I liked at the time, but now it feels too much. So here is what it looks like now!

I wanted to add more melt bands to look more like they could be where chains are. I decided to also make the crown look better. I also wanted to show off the watch that the heroes used to help make transformation smoother. Along side, I wanted to show off her weapon. I decided the heroes will all have names that have a reference to their constellation they are chosen to represent, as the Champion. So Lucia's hero name is Galaxia, due to there is an Andromeda Galaxy.

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(Short Comic)

Wanted to share this little comic

I'm thinking about recoloring a lot of the Stella Crids But fun fact, the Stella Crids can eat and sleep, but they don't really need to unlike us. They would most likely snack or nap throughout the day. Depending on the person, it isn't against the Stella Crid to sleep and eat along side their owner. The only time they would need to recharge energy is from transforming and using their power.

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Update Report

I'm thinking about changing the wings for the Stella Crids While I love the idea of all the little guys having different wing types to fit their personality, it is kind of hard keeping track of them. I think I'd prefer to stick to just one wing type, but change the shape a bit to match the Stella Crids! What do you all think?

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So I know it's been a while since the last post I made, the reason for that is... I been working on other projects as well as trying to finalize the concepts for this series. I want to make sure this series has enough time to bake when it comes to sharing lore, or concepts. I will say I DO have a little of the concept revealed in the form of a sketch, so there IS something to share. And with this, I want to let people theorize how the concept of people turning into monsters works! It is people being corrupted and turning into the monsters are what the heroes are fighting.

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The Stella Crids designs right now

As of current, these are the designs for the magical creatures known as Stella Crids Here I will explain what they are, which constellation they are from, and why I made them look the way they do. I won't be sharing their names due to some aren't set in stone, and others I'm still deciding names for them. Just reminder, the Stella Crids are all named after stars in their constellations Another thing, their gender. Naturally they don't have a gender, but it's common for them to prefer certain pronouns to others. And as of now, their pronouns aren't 100% set in stone I would also like to show, the characters that I rebranded for this series use to look like this

So you can tell that most of them did end up keeping their original ideas as I worked on their Stella Crids.

Stella Crids as of now have a few design choices 1. Their tail always has some star on it. 2. Their head will always have some sta(s) on their head/ears 3. They have a star like mark on thier foreheads 4. They all have wings that are usually white. It doesn't matter what type of wings. 5. They all are kinda sparkly since they are made of starlight. (sometimes i may have forgotten to draw these elements)

This is the Stella Crid for the hero that I have based off of Andromeda. I made it a pegasus since the Pegasus Constellation is incredibly close to Andromeda. He's blue due to if i remember correctly, that is a color connected to the chained princess.

This is the Stella Crid I gave to the hero based off the Fornax constellation. She is supposed to resemble a phoenix in a small way (but not fully look like a bird) due to I wanted a beast the represent fire since Fornax is a furnace. And the red for her is due to that fire aspect

This is the Stella Crid for the hero that represents the Pyxis constellation. Due to Pyxis is the sailor's compass, I tried to make it resemble a little of a dolphin since dolphins are known to help sailors. When I looked up colors that are connected to Pyxis, it gave me blue and orange for some reason. I may adjust those colorings later on.

This is the Stella Crid I made for the hero that represents Leo. I think it makes sense that it is a lion. I gave him those style of wings to test out using different looks for the wings on these little guys.

This is the Stella Crid I had made for the hero that represents Lepus. Again, self-explained the animal. I liked the idea of it having fairy like wings to give more of a docile look to it since I imagine this little one to be, well, docile. But it's also used to make people be shocked that this bunny ends up being tough. I don't know why I made the bunny yellow, I just liked the idea.

This is the Stella Crid I gave for the hero that will represent Libra. I did research on this but butterflies can also represent justice, fitting for the scale constellation. I remember looking up and digging somewhere if green would work to represent Libra for some reason since I really wanted to use it. I think green works due to its a majestic color as it is.

This is the Stella Crid that I made for the hero that will represent Perseus. This creature I tried to make to look like a fusion between a scaly beast and a horse, due to Perseus is connected to the lore of Andromeda and Cassieopia. That lore involving a winged horse in Perseus story before going over to Andromeda's and the scaly creature later on.

This is the Stella Crid I made for someone that represents the constellation Cygnus. I once again tried to make one that slightly resembles a bird, but tried to make it more majestic since it's to be a more wise Stella Crid, having been active longer than the others. I made him a light blue due to that seems to be a color connected to this swan. He also gave me the idea that Stella Crid's can have different size wings, which I may try to play around with later on. (Maybe the wing size shows it's age) Now you may be thinking, these are all hero Stella Crids, where is the one for the villain? I want to make a separate post on the villain and her Stella Crid when I figure out her objective.

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Basic Stella Crids Info currently

So I came to talk about What is a Stella Crid?

For now, these magical creatures are called Stella Crids. They are the embodiment of the star that is wished upon. They all are made of starlight and can change opacity to be seen by the visible eye (however, animals and children will be able to see them still when they are invisible to adults. Along with anyone with a Stella Crid or anyone who still has hope strong enough to keep wishing and believe) So, they are named after the star that is wished upon, along as are something that has to do with the constellation the star is from! Currently, I'm still deciding why the character in the story get these out of everyone else who wishes upon a star. The other information I have for them is that they want to help their owner, or wisher, get their wish, whatever that may be. However, the idea is that people miss use the wishing concept. When one wishes, they are supposed to also work to that wish, as a show that they generally want this wish. However, people in this world don't get that. They will wish away but do nothing to work towards it, or they work for the wrong thing and miss understand what they truly want. In a way, the Stella Crids want people to using wishing properly, so they end up coming to their wisher to have them help spread this concept (since someone is willing to use people's wishes to corrupt them by wishing on a "tainted star", more about that later!!) Another piece of information, one doesn't need an item to transform with their Stella Crid. So what is this?

A Stella Watch. My concept is these are later made for the heroes as an easier way to transform. It is draining on both the wisher and the Stella Crid to transform normally. This watch helps with the power levels and shows the wisher how tired their Stella Crid will be. However, if you have transformed for years, you and your Stella Crid would be using to transforming without one. The watch also serves as an easy way for the heroes to communicate with the others too when transformed. That is what I have so far on the concept! I still need to sort out the ideas before I have it set in stone.

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The Concept designs for the people

Now I am done having y'all wait on the concept art for this series. I'll show you all the Concept art I have so far on the heroes!! (so far, I only have a few down, but they help give you an idea of what I'm aiming at).

As a reminder, the concept currently is that these people made a wish upon a star, and that star materialized into a little creature they transform with. So the creatures are named after stars in Constellations, while the human represents the constellation the star is from. For example, If I was to wish upon Skat, a star in Aquarius, my whole hero design would be of Aquarius.

Lucia, I planned for her to be Andromeda, the chained princess. So, I tried my best to make her outfit not only elegant and easy to fight it but comes across like a princess. The chains are added as an accessory due to the original story of Andromeda.

Kami, I planned for her to be Fornax, the furnace. This was a challenge, but I just wanted to give her an outfit that looks like she can dance in it, perfect for it she's dancing in somewhere hot. Her weapon, however, I'm planning to be this huge oven fan, which keeps the whole Fornax theme.

Nia, I planned for her to be Pyxis, the compass. Pyxis is specially a sailor's compass, so it made sense to draw her in a slight sailor outfit (and yes, my inner Sailor Moon fan was hyped about this). However, I struggled a bit since I wanted to make sure it looked like it was its own thing and not something from Sailor Moon. I hope I accomplished that since I love this design the most!

Luisa, I planned for her to be Leo. Sure, Leo sounds masculine, but female lions are the ones that do the most in the prides! To be, it felt only fitting that a woman would represent the lion constellation. I would also like to think, that the constellations don't care what gender their hero is. I also loved giving her things that resemble a tail and ears when it's just fabric. The "ears" are just a bow, and her "tail" is just the back of her top going down into a thin piece of fabric. Luisa's design also changed the least from the original concept for Spirit Animals!

That is all the heroes... how about I show the main villain? mmmm maybe not, I'll let the reveal of them be a big surprise

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What the original comic looked like

I am enjoying sharing the history of the idea of my magical hero series with the characters in it. So I will show you all the firsts' things I have made for it, when i was working on making the old concept with animal theme for Webtoon There are two versions of it, one was the very first, and others were an updated version of that.

For example, the covers.

The one on the right was going to be the one that I wanted to use for the cover of the series. However, I made the second one due to Webtoon has limitation on size for the covers, while there is more freedom in the comic pages. The same also went for the mini covers.

Tho that has something to do with that the first image, i guessed what size it would have to be before looking it up. But even when I enlarge it, it was over the limit.

I wanted to make the covers looked cool to remind people of classic magical girl series. Which is why the original mini cover has the hero persona in like a mirror surface (I always loved it when magical girl series, like Sailor Moon, did that!!)

Now on to the... never finished first part of this series! ^^

Here were the original pages of the first episode/chapter I was working on. The idea I had is that Lucia, the girl, would wake up and try to calm herself down before she rushes out the door to an event she was working, or volunteering, at.

The idea was that Lucia was tired and honestly struggling with life. So this series not only was about a magical hero series, but about broken people, coming together to help the other, while being able to help others that were like them. So, a story on healing in a way. Now reminder, these are really old drawings. I was about 17-18 when I was working on this. But not long after i made these pages, I wanted to redo how they looked.

I like the approach to this one a lot better to the old one. I felt like adding the additional panels help bring the emotion that at the time I wanted to show. It felt more properly to when someone wakes up from a nightmare, since of course they would take a moment to figure out if they are awake or not. I was also proud of the layout of her room, since I struggle with scenes sometimes, I was happy that everything, at the time, looked decently in the right place perspective wise. Plus, I added a poster as an easter egg to another magical hero series I've been working on with A LOT of art of! ^^ Also, I tried really hard to make the first two seem to blend into each other, but it didn't turn out perfect.

Thankfully, I would say I have gotten better at comic making (or I'd like to hope so). I def may use the original starting idea for Wish Upon A Star, since it does follow the same concept. Broken souls trying to help others that are broken for the most part. I hope you all enjoyed this little blast from the past.

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Where it all started.

Originally, this series started as a "Spirit Animal" series with me and my friends. It was something I made on Wattpad back when I was in 9th grade (I was in 9th grade in 2018-2019). It was also when I started doing digital art on my laptop with Microsoft Paint and Paint 3D.

The Spirit Animals

I've been really interested in Horoscopes, magic, and spirit animals for a loooooooooooong time, I don't know why, but...

However, I stopped working on it because I was struggling with ideas, and I had other things I was working on.

Around the summer of 2022, I grabbed this idea and decided to use my own characters for it. The concept was people unleashing their inner spirit animals... and they just so happened to also have an element theme.

They would be put into situations, where their inner spirit animal would be telling them that they don't have to hold back who they are anymore.

And I went so far to prep making it on Webtoon (I can share the comic pages another day.) I even made a tiktok on this.

so umm... I decided that after I started making reels from Instagram, I'd do TikTok! I had to use my characters to this audio, so I hope you enjoy it! #magic #originalcharacters #owlhouseaudio

I also have some extra drawings I'd love to show you all some other time where I drew them as Tokyo Mew Mew (or Mew Mew Power) characters.

Now, because I got into Arcana Twilight, and it made my love for astronomy stronger, I had the idea to turn these characters into a new series.

And then it was basically a shower thought of "what if it's a series where they wish on a star?"

(I wish I was kidding, but i LITTERALLY had the thought while showering.) I also used one of those "Magical Girl Dress Up" sites to brain storm ideas

I like the concept of the magical heroes seem to have a top piece that is over top something underneath. You'll see that I used that concept in some of the designs. I even use the wing idea for the little magical creatures the characters transform with. I hope you all enjoyed this concept history!

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A Project?

Gloria Gloryheart here, and I bring to you my ideas for this series.

I had these characters from another series I was working on which I called "The Spirit Animals". This series was originally me and my friends, then I changed it to be of my own characters. Over the time, as I looked over that series, I realized "I don't like this concept as much anymore!"

I love magical hero series a lot! I especially love it when they have little animal sidekicks with them. I also love astronomy.

I had the idea, "What if... there was a magical hero series... about wishing upon a star?"

I welcome you to the concept of "Wish Upon A Star"! A magical hero series where the heroes had wished on a star and now, they have the powers from that star! I will slowly share more about the series, including the concept art I have over time as I work on this.

Until then, I hope you'll join me on this journey.