Kyndal is a 17-year-old student and an aspiring graphic designer. She was born in a Texas suburb, but gravitates towards large cities; the kind that seem to swallow even the tallest of men. She has always wished for green eyes, a photographic memory and a house with endless hot water. She considers herself an amateur Renaissance woman, and hopes to try nearly everything before she dies. Being a cynical and desensitized citizen of the United States, she feels mostly apathetic towards politics and religion. Anticipating a memorable and enlightening college experience, Kyndal is most ambitious. A few of her favorite things are: cheese fries, sloths, slasher flicks, reggae music, piggy banks, Tetris, Scions, tiny dogs with big eyes, webdesign, sushi and redheads.
If you were to trace my artistic inclinations back, back, back to the
very beginning, you might deduce that I inherited the 'internal artist' from my mother's past generations. At a very young age, I was drawing for fun. I graduated from coloring books and began drawing my own pictures to color. The first examples of my so-called ability weren't very pretty: lopsided faces, stumpy bodies, the works. Even so, I was trying. I was an artist in the making.
Years passed and I was sucked into the anime craze. It consumed my life, year on and year off. It was a seasonal obsession, and though I look back on it with mild embarrassment, I'm grateful that it taught me what it did. I learned and studied anatomy without being completely conscious of it. I practiced drawing those idealistic bodies daily. Ever since then, I have been crossing over into a more realistic style of my own, all the while improving.
I've mostly noticed how my art has mimicked me through the years, and while my skill grew, I grew as well. Now, I find I've matured a bit, and I take my art much more seriously. I see it more as a future occupation than a hobby. With determination and a steadied hand, I went from disturbingly disproportionate sketches at age 8 to disturbing, yet proportionate sketches at age 17. Whether my art is favored or not, no one that has observed my work from years before can deny the progress I have seen. I'll continue to develop myself as an artist, a writer, a photographer and most importantly, as a good person. Art motivates me, and with that kind of fuel, I know I can go far.
