HugaDuck

Long time, no post,

Little update, I'm powering through my junior year and still working hard at my double major in history and theology! I've been working with a professor to try and secure an internship here at the college working in the archives and in more exciting news, will be presenting one of my papers: "Vernichtungskriegsthese: The Making and Breaking of the 'Clean Wehrmacht' Myth" at the Kansas Association of Historians Conference here at the end of March. I'm on a WWII themed panel with two graduate students and a professor, so I'm a little freaked out, but this will be a great experience and a handy thing to have on a CV.

I've mentioned it before in art uploads, but I'm mostly active on my Facebook page, Kyra Croninger Draws, nowadays. I had several people approach me about commissions through there and had time to take on an outfit design one which I enjoyed doing, so I'm looking at working up an official commissions sheet here in the future and opening that up. Since FB is only accessible to people WITH FB, I'm trying to update my dA page a bit, get my most recent works up here, and clean out old stuff. I've cleared A LOT of art uploads and over 500 journals, so if there was an old commission, gift, or request piece that I deleted and you want, just let me know and I can send the file to you. I'm pretty sure I know where all of these things are saved on my laptop.. >.>

Thanks for sticking around and continuing to watch this dead account! DeviantArt seems to be in a sorry state, with not a lot of activity anymore. I know most people have moved to Tumblr, but I really dislike and have trouble navigating the layout of that website. If anyone has any other website suggestions which have a healthier community than here, I'd appreciate it!

~Kyra

The Midwest Catholic Family Conference was this weekend and the book I was commissioned to do illustrations for was being sold! Felt freaking fantastic to have it all wrapped up and done after taking so long to do 56drawingsplusacoverpage and then all the fun stuff in between. I haven't used my email that religiously in a long time. Then I remembered why, because when I'm waiting for emails, I get extremely anxious...


Anyways, here's some of my favs + the cover!

 


















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*internal screaming*





Anywho, finished these and got to work on another largish project... almost got done and then got distracted and have been aggressively doodling JA again... >.>
Going back to campus on the 20th, and am taking 18 credit hours this semester.... Got all my text books in finally, of which there are 15.... HOPEFULLY I can have enough time this semester to do some more drawing (to keep myself sane) and read through these three incredibly expensive books I invested in with some of the commission money. X'D Two volumes over the Hitler Jugend and volume 2 on a series about the history of the German Police, mainly focusing on the Third Reich era. Turns out the Police book does not touch on what I need exactly, but it's still given me some good circumstantial information so far. Looking forward to digging into the HJ books though! Hoping they will help out a lot for writing The Damned. The books are all by John Angolia, and I love how he writes. It's PURE research and information, so no bias either way. It's just the facts about the history and organization which is what I need. Only problem is, all his books are rare to find and very expensive. I have a huge list I've been stalking on amazon for whenever someone posts one for under $100. Yeah. :I
But they're quality works and I would say so far from reading, essential to my research endeavors.



~Kyra