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Hello there, this is Katana, also known as Kat in some circles. I'm your friendly neighborhood twenty-two-year-old illustrator/writer whose sarcasm is second to none and harboring the ability to verbalize the parentheses in stories. I drink coffee and draw like an addict and am liable to get you into things that I like. Currently the wielder of a BFA in Illustration and a minor in English.

Questions? Comments? Death threats? Feel free to PM or message me in some iteration. I'm always around, you just don't know it.

"Some of the great artists of our time started off by doodling in class. ...Maybe. Oh heck I dunno."
- Miss Anonymous

Tweetaku 17

The "Where's the TARDIS" Tumblr uploaded this picture today (warning, huge). A mosaic of all the entires to their competition.

Well, after an hour of scanning it row-by-row in Photoshop and enhancing images to see them more clearly, I came to this conclusion:

I guess it's possible I missed our entry, but...

(With apologies to 'gome who's seen this like five times already.)

LiveStreaming at 7:30pm CST

One of those nights again. Come on by to the Art Corner of Doom and watch as a new subject of picture gets colored. Hint, it isn't a chibi or Doctor Who related. And if I feel up to it, I might doodle and get some coloring book pages done.

So yeah, 7:30pm central standard time, the time zone you want to be in. I might have the microphone on depending on the amount of people/who's there. Otherwise, it's pure roulette.

Gimped wrists and coloring books

Just to bring everyone up to speed...

Back in high school, a little case of tendonitis sprung up in my right wrist. In fact, I wrote about it here, but I'm too lazy to go archive digging. It was nothing major and got soothed in a few days. Nothing to worry about.

My right hand and wrist take a ton of abuse, mainly because it's responsible for drawing and writing, two things I do an abundance of. And while I thought school would kill it, it turns out it's me doing normal things that does.

Whenever I sleep, my right hand tends to be under my face, and that makes it ache when I wake up. So I've been doing my best to make sure I don't sleep on it. Thursday night I'm bumming around and have to stop drawing due to a horribly painful wrist. Friday was worse, though I started wrapping it and putting like, aspercreme on it.

It's doing alright right now, but I'm being careful. Honestly, it's the suckiest thing that could happen to me in terms of physical damage (with the exception of, I guess, my eyesight) because not only do I depend on my drawing for my future livelihood, but also for my sanity. I get jittery when I haven't drawn for a day or two. It's weird and terrible, but mostly weird.

That (sorta) leads into my current project! It's the Book of Coloring, which is pretty much what you think it is. Each page is something to be colored; random doodles and things. Made in no order with no rhyme or reason, it really is just a way to get some use out of my doodling and to help entertain people who are just as bored as I am.

Unfortunately, I'm making a lot of stuff for it, meaning when my pace has slowed down in a week it'll be sad. OH WELL~

theOtaku coloring book

Random idea! Thank you Skype!

So I'm thinking of making line drawings with the purpose of making them into coloring pages. You print them out, color them, and then show me the results so I can make fun of you put them all on my fridge and marvel at their beauty. :D

A.) Is this a feasible idea, B.) Who/what do you want to see?

LiveStreaming (pause?)

Edit: Taking a break. Dunno if I'll come back later. May...be.

For really no reason at all. Dunno what I'll be doing, think I'll work on a wallpaper or two and maybe some drawings...I just would like to get my mind off the funeral that's tomorrow. Also to enjoy my Friday off (though I'm not all that happy about it...)

Stream will be starting up in a few minutes. Here's the link, music is random roulette.