In between singing along to pop music and answering questions from her followers, Pike gives step-by-step details on how she creates the character. Superman is a favorite of her husband, Moose, who narrates, reads posts from her followers and runs things behind the scenes. "It's like a small income from a lot of different places that add up to a mortgage payment." There is also cash from her fashion line, which she sells at comic conventions, as well as appearance fees. She receives a little advertising money but relies more on donations from viewers and from, a crowdfunding site for artists.
Pike started in December and already has 163,000 followers on Instagram. "One week later, I was live-streaming body paint on Twitch," she said. She posted a video of her first solo effort on the entertainment and social news networking service Reddit and it caught the attention of, a live-streaming company in San Francisco. Pike is a fan of cosplay, in which participants wear costumes to represent a character from anime, comic books, cartoons, video games or movies.Īfter sitting as a body paint model for a friend, Pike realized she could still dress up without having to make a costume. I want to paint myself as Superman,'" said Pike, who, when she's finished, looks as if she could have been ripped from a comic book panel. In fact, when people say, 'You should paint yourself as Superwoman', I'm like, 'No. "We don't talk about gender roles on my channel. Twice a week, the 28-year-old turns her body into a different character for an Internet audience. She'll repeat the motion thousands of times during the next 12 hours as she transforms herself from a willowy blond artist to dark-haired Superman for viewers following her online. Kay Pike stands in front of a giant mirror, dabs her brush into paint and touches it to her skin. Kay Pike poses for photos before and after transforming herself using body paint.
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