The Anti-Adulting Coloring Book is HERE

September 4, 2016

Yes. It's finally here! Ready to ship!

Check it out here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/474558807/adult-coloring-book-coloring-book-anti

Order online now, $17 plus shipping

The Anti-Adulting coloring book

This listing is to Ready to Ship!

Will ship in 1-3 Business Days.

This book is packed with over 20 detailed and hand drawn original illustrations by me, Kierston Ghaznavi!

Enjoy hours of relaxation and coloring fun as you "anti-adult" your day away!

Color in fun scenes like Party, Beach, BBQ, or detailed pattern pages like Ice cream, Lingerie, Bike ride, and more!

You're free to use any coloring medium you're comfortable with: pens, crayons, colored pencils, markers, watercolors etc.

Have Fun!

I retain the rights to all artwork, cannot reproduce or redistribute without permission.

This book was hand drawn by me. I designed the cover art, created the layout and used Lulu printing services to create the physical books.

Check out individual downloadable coloring pages here:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/KeghazIllus?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=19731679

Take a look at the other cool stuff in my shop here:

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Curls & Markers Debut!

August 1, 2016

My weekly newsletter, Curls & Markers will be debuting tomorrow. I plan to give weekly updates on my current in-progress work, discounts for merchandise in my etsy shop, as well as first dibs on new items, sales and offers! Don't miss out!

BONUS: if you sign up for the newsletter before it debuts on August 2nd, you will receive a FREE instant downloadable coloring page, from my upcoming coloring book!!!

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My Favorite Mediums: Let's talk about Pen.

July 16, 2016

I switched to drawing with pens in my sketchbook instead of pencils a long time ago, probably high school. The pencil sketches would smudge and I hated that I couldn’t get the lines to stay crisp. Back then, I was trying to draw more realistically, and I’m not good at that, I knew that early on. I was more interested in the story and the characters in my artwork than perfecting the form. Plus, I really have the WORST handwriting/penmanship, so in school I needed a nice fine tip pen to even attempt to write anything legibly, well that’s if I wanted to actually take notes to study with. And since most of my notetaking in school primarily consisted of doodles and daydreams, drawing with pens became my favorite way to draw.

Neatness was definitely not a priority when I drew, and it still isn’t when I’m freehand sketching. I loved the texture of the pen scrawling & scribbles, and building up the dimensions with varying my pen pressure on the paper.

Nowadays I work primarily in pen, but I try to be a little more clean with my strokes and more decisive with my pen marks. I use pencil lightly to sketch my ideas, placement, expressions etc. then I add in the permanent lines.

From here, I color in with my markers or I scan the image & add color in Adobe Illustrator.

Rosy  marker illustration. — Rosy marker illustration.

When I draw in a freehand manner with my pen, its generally in these curvy and semi connected shapes. I can do this for hours, throw on some music, or a podcast (We Hate Movies, The Read, MmHmm Girl, 2 Dope Queens, This American Life—my go-to broadcasts) or I pull up Seinfeld reruns on Hulu and zone out. I draw them as just outlines, sometimes as part of a zentangle or I spend time coloring them in with fine point sharpies.

When I create, I use pen primarily and it's the medium I am most comfortable with.

What do you think about drawing with pen? Would you try it? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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XOXO

-Kierston

Coming Soon: a very KG Adult Coloring Book!

July 14, 2016

I'm plowing through a lot of Micron pens these days, as I crank out illustrations for the coloring book. I hope to have at least 20 pages of detailed scenes to provide hours of coloring enjoyment. Get your markers, colored pencils and/or crayons in formation!

Half of the book will be portraits with patterned backgrounds, similar to my Hair Obsessed Series from 2015, not as detailed however. http://www.keghaznavi.com/#/hairobsessed/

The other half of the book will be everyday scenes, bike riding, chilling on the couch, house party, picnic and more.

I'm about 3/4 of the way done with the illustrations and I expect that I have a few weeks of work to do before its complete. Want to know when this will be available? Sign up for my newsletter, coming in August to be informed, get sneak peeks, discounts etc.:

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You can also head over to my etsy shop, Keghazillus, fav it & take a look at the other stuff I make, paper dolls, earrings pins.

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I hope to have a lot more coming your way!

-Kierston