Welcome, friend! I'm Amanda Kastner, the artist, writer, and designer behind StorySeamstress. I filled my first official sketchbook at age 6, and have been taking story ideas and dressing them in pictures ever since!

What Inspires Me

My art and imagination have been influenced by the lakes and forests of northern Minnesota where I grew up and the rolling hills of Wisconsin where my husband and I now live. I'm also inspired by great literature, old and new. There's nothing quite like adding a newly-discovered favorite to my library!

How I Create My Art

I use a mixture of traditional and digital tools, including pen and ink with watercolor, ink linework digitally colored, or fully digital artwork drawn by hand on my tablet monitor in Clip Studio Paint.