How do illustrators draw?
June 3, 2010
How are illustrations being created? What makes an individual style of an artist? What do advertising agencies and magazines expect from illustrator? Bang! Bang! Studio artists talked about how they draw on the example of "Hare-wolf" themed work. Those who could not come recorded a spectacular video, where they showed how they use their technique.
Mikhail Vyrcev (portfolio)
24 years. Mozart of watercolors. Studied 2 years in The Moscow Arts and Industrial Institute. Having a thorough understanding of all types of watercolor paper he knows all the places in Moscow where to buy it.
Clients: magazines “Men's Health”, “Psychologies”, “Pro Sport”, Audi / Rodnaya Rech, Obukhov, Invest Group, T-shirt store. Exhibitions: "Weapons of the Future" @ Solyanka, March 2010.
Evgeny Murushkin (portfolio)
A short, thin brunette. In addition to being an illustrator he is a professional tattooist at Faux Pas Tattoo.
Clients: Audi/Rodnaya Rech, T-shirt Store, Geo Traveller. Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva (portfolio)
Being born in Ufa Masha lives in Rotterdam now. She has 2 higher diplomas in the sphere of art. You won’t find a magazine in Russia, which haven’t published her works at least once. Masha was a participant of about 20 exhibitions - half of them were outside Russia.
Natasha Klass
Natasha is one of founders of revision.ru. Her plasticine works are being baked: they don’t live long. Early in her childhood Natasha started drawing in her mother's recipes notebooks. Untill 5 years old she preferred drawing horses only, then she learned to sculpt in clay. Natasha likes to work with plastics – this interesting material can be pliable or hard, you can make it smooth or give it any texture, mix colors or use it neat. Natasha likes to make images in volume - plastics works perfect for that.
Clients: Beeline/Adventa Lowe, magazines "Pro Sport", “Schastlivie roditeli”, “Russia”.Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Anastasiya Ladatko
Lives in China and always lacks Internet connection. Nastya works as fashion designer. She draws in hands and doesn’t use Photoshop.
Clients: magazines “New Porker”, “Russia”. Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Andrey Kasay (portfolio)
Being a singer in Narkotiki music band Andrey creates posters for his shows himself. He thinks that part of the band's popularity was reached due to them. Andrey started drawing just a few years ago.
Clients: magazines “Pro Sports”, “F5”, “Medved”, T-Shirt Store. Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Natalia Savinykh (portfolio)
Photorealist virtuoso. Her work "boy with a mug of kvass" hangs all around Moscow city now.
Clients: impossible to enumerate all of her clients: Dirol, Lyubyatovo, Khlebnyi Krai, Lays, Coca-cola, L'Oreal, collaborations with dozens of advertising agencies and magazines - "Popular Mechanics", “Geo Traveller”. Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Tatiana Zhigunova
A punk rocker in the past and a sensible, intelligent mother now.
Clients: magazines "Aeroflot", "Pro Sport". Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Aleksander Blosyak (portfolio)
25 years old. Sasha is person of natural gifts. Born in Siberia.
Clients: magazines "F5", "Pro Sport", “Medved”, “Russia”, T-Shirt Store, Investkafe.Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009; "Weapons of the future" @Solyanka club, March 2010; Silkscreen Limited Edition exhibition, May 2010.
Karina Kinossian
Professional graffiti artist. Her cooperation with Kawaii Factory brought dozens of handbags with her illustrations on the streets of Moscow. Karina dressed shop windows for major sports brands, cooperated with Solyanka club and Respublica store.
Клиенты: magazines “Pro Sport”, “F5”, “Medved”, “Russia”. Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009.
Sergey Pervushin
"Father octopus in a hat” – this is what he says about himself. His favorite theme is cartoons and movies with super heroes. Sergey works as graphic designer. He participated in different magazines art projects: “SHTAB-kvartira”, ”Vogue”, “Afisha”, «Next Festival» (Vilnius).
Clients: magazines “Pro Sport”, “F5”, “Medved”, “Russia”. Exhibitions: Free Wi-Fi Illustration Festival, May 2009; "Weapons of the future" @Solyanka club, March 2010.