Kay Lee
character design & visual development
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about me
Kay Lee is an AuDHD artist and digital creator based in Worcester, MA.
This website is a creative portfolio for the things she loves most—her original characters and cozy illustrations.Blending sweetness and spice through themes of magic, mundanity, and intimacy, she hopes to spark the same feelings of softness, comfort, and playfulness in you as they do in her.More Information:special interests: ocs, coffee, witchy stuff, naruto, dead by daylight, balletlikes: iced lattes, scary movies / games, long video essays, daydreaming, wandering downtown, oversized hoodiesdislikes: driving, crowded placedbig 3: cancer - capricorn - virgombti: INFPtools: what i use to draw, film, etc. and my brushes
"Romance is a desire to acknowledge and enhance the grandeur of small moments." - Hitomi Mochizuki
ART
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visual development
personal
studies
Visual Development Portfolio
OBAVEN
Tsu discovers that she's a witch far later than most. Now she must play catch-up with her training guided by Khan, a seasoned male witch who's just as reluctant to teach as she is to be taught.
Tsu Outfit Exploration
Mundane Side
Fall
Magical Side
casual, work out, sleep
Magical Side
The Tunnel
Magical Side
Stone Stairway
Magical Side
Lake
Dust Bunnies
Toddler Tsu Turnaround
( ongoing personal project! check back later for more updates! c: )
Personal drawings and doodles
oc stuff
playlists and mood boards
Plein airs, figure studies, stylized studies
(2024-2025)
gesture inspired character designs
(2021-2022)
Writing
(under construction)
stories
poems
Sad Tsu
TBA
TBA
Sad Tsu - Chapter 1
(coming soon!)
A soft letter is on the way... ✨✉️
HEXPRESSO
cafe
Letter Club
Did you know when the moon is full, a magical portal opens?
It settles quietly into the world—
in a lost train tunnel
under the glow of magic hour
when the veil is thinnest.The witch haven of Kimbrowood is one of those places.And tucked somewhere within it—half-hidden by mist,
with the faint scent of roasted coffee and old spells—
is a small café called Hexpresso.This is where Tsu ended up.In the quiet space between seasons of her life,
she trades the stage for a café counter—
burning beans, brewing courage, and learning, slowly,
how to exist in the in-between.In a back room, beneath things long forgotten, Tsu found a small, stubborn little typewriter that still remembered how to speak—and decided that was reason enough to begin.
Told in the form of narrative letters, you will receive an envelope carrying pieces of the cozy, magical, occasionally chaotic lives of local obaven, Tsu and Khan, with occasional visits from their loved ones.🌒🌔🌕Every month you will receive the following:
- A letter told in the POV of the Tsu, Khan
- A mini print
- A sticker
- A spell, recipe or random ephemeraEverything is packed in an illustrated envelope along with custom wax seals! Each piece has been curated, illustrated, and created by me.This will be mailed via letter mail! No tracking is included!✨✨✨While Tsu spends her ballet off-season working at Hexpresso, Khan keeps heath and home intact—negotiating with spirits, maintaining wards, and keeping the cottage in top shape is serious business.
The Portal
"An odd little thing, that portal. It only opens for a limited time and for a certain amount of friends." - KhanThe Portal opens every 20th of the month. Slots are open until the 30th, or until filled and letters will be sent during the first week of the following month.If there is a sign-up availability after the portal closes, your letter will be sent as the next month's letter.For example: The portal closes on March 30th but you were able to sign up April 1st. Therefore, you will receive your letter during the first week of May!
HEXPRESSO
cafe
Letter Club
Letter 01
Dear You,Hi.I don’t know how this found you, exactly—but I like to think it arrived the way most good things do here: a little accidentally, a little intentionally, and at just the right time to matter.I’m Tsu.I work at a café called Hexpresso, which is, on paper, a normal place to get a drink. In practice, it’s where things tend to unfold in small, quiet ways. A cup of something warm that tastes like what you needed. A moment that lingers longer than it should. The feeling that maybe you’re a little more understood than you expected to be.Nothing dramatic. Just… noticeable, if you’re paying attention.
I found an old typewriter this morning.It was buried in the storage room under things no one had touched in a while—boxes of mismatched cups, a jar of sugar that’s definitely past its prime, and a full set of letter paper that felt too nice to leave sitting there waiting for the “right” moment.So I didn’t.I brought it upstairs, brushed off the dust, and decided this could be that moment instead.The keys stick sometimes. The ink is a bit faded on some letters. It’s not perfect.I think that’s why I like it.Khan says if a thing works, it works. Effy would say it has character. Xin Yi would ask why I didn’t find it sooner and then hand me something to eat about it. They’re all right, in their own ways.You’ll meet them, if you stay.
Or, at least—you’ll hear about them. They have a way of showing up, even when they’re not technically in the room.There’s no pressure to understand everything here. I don’t, most of the time. I’m just… trying things. Showing up. Burning the occasional batch of beans and learning from it (sometimes immediately, sometimes… later).If you’ve ever felt like you had to wait until you were more certain, more polished, more ready before you could begin something—
this is me, not doing that.This is the beginning anyway.
If you’d like, you can stay a while. There will be more letters. Small pieces of days like this one, sent out into the world in the hope that they land somewhere they’re needed.And if not—that’s okay too.
Either way, I’m glad this one reached you.I’ll make you something good next time.—Tsu
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