About Me

Hi, 'm Kristina! I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and growing up I had always loved animals and had lots of pets. I grew up with several cats, dogs, hamsters, and goldfish. Then in my teens I lived on a farm with chickens, llamas, rabbits, and a pond with koi fish. (As you can guess, cats were my favorite!).

Since I was a kid I had always loved art and knew I wanted to pursue some kind of career in art, so after high school I went to college for graphic design. One of my classes involved learning digital illustration, and I found that part of design fascinating and loved drawing digitally! After going to college, I had worked jobs in the tech and graphic design world but felt a love for illustration growing stronger, so I taught myself to use Procreate and started drawing digitally on my iPad. I wanted to share my work on with others in the world, thus Black Kat Illustrations was born!