Here's the jubilant journal where I announce that I've finally finished something!
Soo...without further ado...

I'm so jubilant! I finished something! (drumroll please)


I'm extraodinarily happy

I just sent an e-mail to Kordel a few minutes ago...so I'll find out what he and Amanda think either sometime tonight or tomorrow morning when I see them. I think Amanda will like it for sure, even though it's not super obvious that it's them besides her hair.

Other than the piece I just finished (and the four I just started ) I'm feeling very good today. I got things done this week, I'm back into school full-swing, I have to write a very specific poem with no rhyme and all these rules for english (about Beowulf) but I'll do that on Monday. Oh so optomistic finally my cheerful self again,

Take care all,

yours truely.



Commissions

• Digital: Closed


• Traditional: Closed

Trades

• Zebraunicorn for *SelenaH (0%)

Personal Projects

• Aromatic (90%)


• Born of the Night (20%)


• Manyu (45%)


• Sabiha (15%)


• Saycara (40%)


• Tennessee Walking Horse (50%)

Full list here.

Everyone loves good features! I hope you enjoy!



^{Things you should know...
-- I don't take requests, but I would probably love to do a trade with you or take a commission if I have slots open in my art status section! Contact me by note or e-mail (kristenmritz@gmail.com).
-- Please do not repost any of my art, photography, or writing anywhere without written consent from me! Blogs and roleplaying sites are out of the question.
-- I like critique, if you have something constructive to say then by all means say it!
-- I love gifts and fan art so feel free to draw my characters and link me!}

It's been quite a while since I didn't have a sub...

It's quite different, the ad's are more annoying then I thought they'd be, but hey, dA is still dA. Besides, all the subs I've had have been gifts, and for that, I'm more than greatful.

Happy 2009! It hasn't been the greatest so far, but that't mostly (or all) my fault so it's alright. I haven't been here much ...haven't done a whole lot of submitable art, or art at all.

I'm officially back in school (second day was today), we had a super short winter break this year and I was catching up all my second week on school that I'm doing at my own pace. Not too much of a break.

Hope you all are doing well, sorry to say this, but I can't imagine that I'll be spending much time here in the near future, I'm desperately trying to find enough muse to work on my two trades (~TwilightMyst and *SelenaH), and one other project, but atm it's just sketches.

Good day ladies and gents... I'm now signing off.

(feel free to e-mail me if you need anything - see previous journals - I'll probably be lurking anyway)

Edit--

~Dyun, our lovely Jana, bought me a sub! How delightful Thanks so much dear!



Commissions

• Digital: Closed


• Traditional: Closed

Trades

• Photo Manip for ~TwilightMyst (0%)


• Zebraunicorn for *SelenaH (0%)

Personal Projects

• Aromatic (90%)


• K & A (85%)


• Born of the Night (20%)


• Manyu (45%)


• Sabiha (15%)


• Jes & Me (40%)


• Saycara (30%)


• Tennessee Walking Horse (50%)

Full list here.

Everyone loves good features! I hope you enjoy!



^{Things you should know...
-- I don't take requests, but I would probably love to do a trade with you or take a commission if I have slots open in my art status section! Contact me by note or e-mail (kristenmritz@gmail.com).
-- Please do not repost any of my art, photography, or writing anywhere without written consent from me! Blogs and roleplaying sites are out of the question.
-- I like critique, if you have something constructive to say then by all means say it!
-- I love gifts and fan art so feel free to draw my characters and link me!}

So yeah, I understand I'm royally late. I was too lazy to update on Christmas or any time since then two days isn't too long I suppose. In any event... Merry Christmas! And soon a Happy New Year!

My Christmas was quite lovely, I spent a few hours shopping on Christmas Eve morning which turned out quite well ...probably because it was so early and the weather was too bad for many people

Christmas itself was mostly great because I got to spend time with my family! My one sister-in-law (as of this year) gave me her drawing board...it has some paint on it, but I thought maybe I could draw on the other side and paint on the original side ...for lack of a better way to get a completely smooth surface. Towards last Christmas, I really didn't get very much...but it was so much better than any Christmas's in a very long time. The family get-to-gather on my mom's side was fantastic...and then our Christmas day was so lovely. No snow of course-just sun and mushy mud.

I hope you all had as wonderful a time as I did. It was really a wonderful day. Since then I've done a bit of art for the first time in a while and slept in plenty of hours, I've been dreadfully short on sleep!

I also got my SAT scores, I did better (much better) than I'd hoped in math and not quite as good as I'd hoped in English but I'm happy overall.

Thanks for the support this year guys!

I'll be around.



Commissions

• Digital: Closed


• Traditional: Closed

Trades

• Photo Manip for ~TwilightMyst (0%)


• Zebraunicorn for *SelenaH (0%)

Personal Projects

• Aromatic (90%)


• K & A (85%)


• Born of the Night (20%)


• Manyu (45%)


• Sabiha (15%)


• Jes & Me (40%)


• Saycara (30%)


• Tennessee Walking Horse (40%)

Full list here.

Everyone loves good features! I hope you enjoy!



^{Things you should know...
-- I don't take requests, but I would probably love to do a trade with you or take a commission if I have slots open in my art status section! Contact me by note or e-mail (kristenmritz@gmail.com).
-- Please do not repost any of my art, photography, or writing anywhere without written consent from me! Blogs and roleplaying sites are out of the question.
-- I like critique, if you have something constructive to say then by all means say it!
-- I love gifts and fan art so feel free to draw my characters and link me!}

Tell me that art won't be perfect the first time I try and that its okay... maybe even good. Not the art, but that I'd finish something without being so worried about whether it's perfect or not to finish it. I think its rather absurd. How will anything get better if I never actually work on it, right? Ah yes.

Slap some sense into me people.

Other than that... I'm finally swinging back up emotion etc-wise and so art should be starting to creep back into my fingers if I take care not to scare it away. I hope to work on *SelenaH's trade, and two other pieces I'm doing for people outside of deviantART.

School is the main time burglar at the moment...super busy, teachers are cramming tests in right before christmas break, and goodness, I'm only in highschool! I'm really glad I'm not in college right now. I don't know exactly what I'd do. And because I am so busy with school of course I'm here on deviantART playing around with my front page...

I have a family get to gather this weekend, that should be interesting. I still need to go christmas shopping, but that should be fun! And I we have about an inch and a half or two or snow. Quite pretty, but it's melting.

See you around, best wishes!


Commissions

• Digital: Closed


• Traditional: Closed

Trades

• Photo Manip for ~TwilightMyst (0%)


• Zebraunicorn for *SelenaH (0%)

Personal Projects

• Aromatic (90%)


• K & A (85%)


• Born of the Night (20%)


• Manyu (45%)


• Sabiha (15%)


• Jes & Me (40%)


• Saycara (30%)


• Tennessee Walking Horse (40%)

Full list here.

Everyone loves good features! Mine normally come from recent favorites... I hope you enjoy!



^{Things you should know...
-- I don't take requests, but I would probably love to do a trade with you or take a commission if I have slots open in my art status section! Contact me by note or e-mail (kristenmritz@gmail.com).
-- Please do not repost any of my art, photography, or writing anywhere without written consent from me! Blogs and roleplaying sites are out of the question.
-- I like critique, if you have something constructive to say then by all means say it!
-- I love gifts and fan art so feel free to draw my characters and link me!}

It's coming on so fast!! I can't believe it. I've been able to spend a bunch of time with my family lately... and Christmas, when we all get together, is coming quickly! I can hardly believe it's so close...my regret mostly has to do with not being well prepared for it. I took my SAT test but won't know how I do for another couple of months... I'm just glad it's over and hope I don't need to take it again.

I'm still starting new art projects and failing to finish old ones. I'm really tired of not having finished anything, maybe I'll finish something sometime soon. I'd most love to be able to do art pieces for each of you individuals reading this... I have so many people I'd like to do drawings/paintings for on my list that it is just insane.
I was originally going to try to do a christmas piece and mail it out to as many people as I could afford, but that fell through after I didn't do a winter piece. I was waiting for a photographer's permission to use a photo as reference and it still hasn't come.
So many people have had hard years, I'd just love to bless them and encourage them somehow. Sometimes I just want to give you a smile, or some sort of something that will brighten your day... that is one thing that can get me down, I can't tell if I blessed you...or how you're actually doing, and sometimes I just can't do anything at all! I think some years are easier and harder than others...but they always have struggles.

From *Fereshteh's journal.
What are your top 5 favorite pieces in your gallery? Why? (Those of you who can't paste thumbnails of your work in your journal, just paste the link to your art).
Paste this in your journal! Let's spread the personal fav !

1)
These aren't in order necessarily, if you know me well you'll know I have trouble picking favorites. I really like how this turned out, even though it looks grainy...it really did turn out quite nicely, all things considered.

2)
It seems to be a community favorite... I like it mostly because of how the hair turned out, and indeed, that's most of the image. This was my second digital painting and was finished in only a few hours.

3)
Took a long time...first background that I was fairly pleased with and did what I was imagining, at least to some extent. It was a challenge, there are plenty of things that could have been better... but it's always a process.

4)
In a way I'm both in love and frustrated with this piece...the background is absolutely atrocious and the grass is blowing the wrong direction because of technical issues while I was drawing it (I didn't originally draw it that direction), but I love the rich colors and I'm proud of it all the same.

5)
I know the background isn't elaborate...but I do like the picture in general with the sand, shadows, dapples, eye ...parts about it that I spent more time on than others. This one was a rather fun piece, and I proved to myself that I could do a white/grey horse!

Sorry for being all depressing and gloomy guys! Merry Christmas!



Commissions

• Digital: Closed


• Traditional: Closed

Trades

• Photo Manip for ~TwilightMyst (0%)


• Zebraunicorn for *SelenaH (0%)

Personal Projects

• K & A (85%)


• Born of the Night (20%)


• Manyu (45%)


• Sabiha (15%)


• Jes & Me (40%)


• Saycara (30%)


• Tennessee Walking Horse (30%)


• Aasifa Graphite (15%)

Full list here.

Everyone loves good features! Mine normally come from recent favorites... I hope you enjoy!



^{Things you should know...
-- I don't take requests, but I would probably love to do a trade with you or take a commission if I have slots open in my art status section! Contact me by note or e-mail (kristenmritz@gmail.com).
-- Please do not repost any of my art, photography, or writing anywhere without written consent from me! Blogs and roleplaying sites are out of the question.
-- I like critique, if you have something constructive to say then by all means say it!
-- I love gifts and fan art so feel free to draw my characters and link me!}