General Velvet

General Velvet, also called General Vel or Velvet for short, is an African American writer and traditional illustrator. They are the author and owner of Glitzing Stars, Short Staries, and Compensate, they're also the designer behind Galactic Ball.
== Biography ==
Velvet is a self-taught artist, having been born and raised in Illinois. They originally started by posting fan art online, before later on transitioning to making original artwork from time to time.
== Persona(s) ==
Their main persona is General Velvet, who is an eldritch horror, takes the form of a young woman. Their main features being her four eyes in reference to being called The One Who Watches. So far, Velvet has a total of eight personas made, which are listed below:
* General Velvet (Female version)
* Lieutenant General Velcro (Male version)
* Major General Velour (Non-binary version)
* Brigadier Vellum (Chibi version)
* Virtuoso (Clown/Jester version)
* Atlach-Nacha (Spider-man)
* Unnamed plague doctor
* Unnamed skeleton Halloween costume
== Trivia ==
* General Velvet draws purely by pencil.
* Their name comes from being a fan of military-esque aesthetics.
* General Velvet other names/aliases go as follows:
** Lieutenant General Velcro
** Major General Velour (The name is also a nod to the actual word "velours," which means "velvet" when translated from French)
** Brigadier Vellum
* Velvet's personas have alliterations, each of them has similar beginning sounds.
** They're also named after different paper or clothing materials.
** Other personas have their name start with V, likely for branding purposes.
* General Velvet (the creator) goes by any pronouns or sometimes in the form of he/him or they/them.
** It is implied that their personas also go by different pronouns.
* Before confirmation, they were stated to be questioning their identity or are unlabeled.
* The first character they made for Glitzing Stars was Starlette Blu Luminous.
* On a DeviantArt post, they confirmed that they made canon ship names of their characters.
* They take French as second language.
* The reason behind the astronomy references in Glitzing Stars was due to Velvet being an astrology and astronomy lover.
* Trust them or they take your soul with love and care.
== External Links ==
More links to find them can be found here.
* Galactic Ball (Official website)
* Beacons (Link masterlist)
* DeviantArt
* Instagram
* Cara
* Wattpad
* Tapas
* Refsheet
* Toyhou.se
* CharacterHub
* Twitter (Semi-active)
* Tumblr (Inactive)
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