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Is this thing on?  *Scuffle, pat pat pat, scuffle scuffle, eeeeeeek!*

...Sorry... *giggle*

Hello, my name is Kristen, and I'm writing this blog to... *sigh* (that sounds weird... let's try this again)

  Welcome to the Chronicles of Kristen!
Lol, ok, maybe this isn't a feature film. Hmm... Well, here goes nothing...
First to tell you a little bit about me:

  I'm a wife, a merchandiser, and a marketing executive, and I am writing this blog to chronicle my adventures as I pursue a career in freelance illustration, graphic novel, and cute comics.
  Recently, I have set myself a goal of sketching daily, and coming up with at least one finished illustration every other day.  I have been succeeding, and even on the days I determine as days off, I can't help but think up ideas of techniques and designs.  You'll see that my style ranges from reality to comic, and the mediums I use are a mixture of mechanical pencil, watercolors, acrylics, pen & ink, copics, and digital.
  Now that I've set a good foundation of drawing regularly I realize what is a graphic novel without a well written story?  Blogging is much different than writing a novel, but it does cause you to practice the fundamentals of writing, such as outlines, grammar, paragraph and sentence structure, and spelling.
  So, here I am setting another goal to write at least every other day, and include my latest illustrations.  I will also try to include what I've learned with each art piece.

  To start off here is an art piece I finished yesterday:

It started off as a practice for horse anatomy, but then I decided that instead of doing a traditional black and white, to try doing a reverse image.  It was a lot of fun!  It took about 2 hours at most, and was rendered on Paint Tool Sai with my Wacom Cintiq 12UX.

  I look forward to getting feedback, and if you have any requests, suggestions, or critiques, I would love to hear them.
                                                                                                                     Signing off,
                                                                                                                     Iverson Designs