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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

Cardboard TARDIS - Vote!

Well, "like" anyhow.

MagicalZombie and I made a TARDIS out of ganked boxes and duct tape. It's for a contest. However, we don't have our entry page up yet.

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For now, you can be amazing and be a fan of it on Facebook. Please.

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(Yes, there was a guy who had a 10 costume lying around.)

The prequel to victory

Finished my Illustration portfolio.

Have an eight second .gif of me flipping through it.

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BAM it's not over yet. *sobs*

The revoking of my "life" card

Yes, I have one. I made it in Photoshop.

But...my life. It isn't going to exist for the next...week. Here's a very simple graphic.

Explain:

"Theater paper" is a review of the show Spring Awakening. Oh...my God. Let's not talk about it.

Tuesday, nothing, and I need that.

Wednesday, my final illustration is due. It's a painting of a deadly sin. I chose sloth. I also have a 30x44" full color oil pastel "historical portrait" due for life drawing. It's coming along swimmingly, just have to finish it.

Thursday...agh. A review of my EPFE course is due, and then my "writer's notebook" for English. I...have a lot of writing to catch up on. My fault. But I was really hoping it'd be due on the final.

And next Friday is...portfolio review. I want to vomit.

On top of all this is the TARDIS me and MagicalZombie have been working on. We got the bulk painting done today. We have to put it out in the open next week, so here's hoping it looks good.

Planning for commissions

(Essentially cross-posted from DeviantArt)

I'm on the hunt for summer jobs starting tomorrow, but I know for sure the art school won't be hiring me. And if trends continue, I won't have a job this coming school year due to budget cuts and the like. Thems the breaks when you go to a state school, I suppose.

In that case, I'm opening my doors to commissions come the summer. May 11th is when I'll officially start, but this is sort of like my announcement and planning of it.

Commissions kind of scare me in the fact that, well, you have to...like...charge money? And I know this is the absolutely WORST place for me to be asking people to pay me to make them stuff, but it doesn't hurt to advertise it wherever I can.

There's A Reason

My little bit of a tribute to the late Elisabeth Sladen, wonderful lady and total BAMF as Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who. I feel a bit ashahmed for not having seen that much with her in it, but what I have seen was enough to make me grow very fond...

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