👦🏽What are the three most interesting projects or teams that you have worked with?
All my projects are interesting, if they’re not, I just don’t do them. What good can you get if you’re bored with your job?
👧🏻One of the recent projects – the book about Oswald the Opossum. Firstly, I have never drawn, and even never seen an opossum. Secondly, it had to be a book with black-and-white illustrations, this was very inspiring. Old monochrome movies started appearing before my eyes, I wanted to put life in Oswald, like a small cartoon from my childhood. And thirdly, the book was in English, so I had and opportunity to find out how bad my English is. It’s very bad)).
https://www.behance.net/gallery/30384551/Oswald
https://www.amazon.com/Oswald-Almost-Famous-Opossum-Katherine/dp/099357470X?ie=UTF8&keywords=oswald%2C%20the%20almost%20famous%20opossum&qid=1463242337&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
There were the pictures for the diplomas of “Angel of inspiration” contest for “Razvitum” project in Petersburg. We started this project in 2013,and we’re doing 4 diplomas every year or every 6 months. I like to review those works, this way I can see where my art is moving. They all have the same theme, and the theme of Petersburg in them is growing more and more. Faces are showing more emotions. It will be great if this will continue like that.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/34448475/Muse-3
👦🏽What internet sources do you use to publish and promote your works?
👧🏻Behance, illustrator.ru, instagram,where I publish the works in process (along with photos of my dog:), facebook, and VK, of course.
https://www.behance.net/paskamarja
http://illustrators.ru/users/paskamarja
https://new.vk.com/varyakolesnikova
https://www.facebook.com/paskamarja
👦🏽Where can we find your works, apart from internet galleries?
👧🏻Recently postcards with my pictures were made at Cardspoint shop.
http://cardspoint.ru/ru/vkolesnikova
👦🏽What modern Russian painters, illustrators and designers do you like?
👧🏻Andrey Gordeev, Phil Dunskiy, Polina Yakovleva. We have many cool illustrators.
👦🏽What about foreign masters, who’s inspiring you?
👧🏻
Rebecca Dautremer is my idol.
Shaun Tan - very mood-driven cartoonist.
👦🏽How do you expand your knowledge?
👧🏻For me, there have always been only one way of getting new knowledge – experimentally. It turned out to be the ideal way. I just try to draw. If this looks good – then it works. If no – I’ve messed up and have to redo this.
👦🏽What have you learned in the last 6 months?
👧🏻That I won’t believe that I can do something. By the way, I was very happy that I’ve learned something in my first year of drawing. Like – «Wow, I managed to draw this shadow on the face», or – «Wow, I understand how a dog's nose is organized now», or – «I managed to convey this emotion, hurray!»
Now, the more I learn – the more feeling that I don’t know anything I get.
#interview #Varya_Kolesnikova_part_II #eng
All my projects are interesting, if they’re not, I just don’t do them. What good can you get if you’re bored with your job?
👧🏻One of the recent projects – the book about Oswald the Opossum. Firstly, I have never drawn, and even never seen an opossum. Secondly, it had to be a book with black-and-white illustrations, this was very inspiring. Old monochrome movies started appearing before my eyes, I wanted to put life in Oswald, like a small cartoon from my childhood. And thirdly, the book was in English, so I had and opportunity to find out how bad my English is. It’s very bad)).
https://www.behance.net/gallery/30384551/Oswald
https://www.amazon.com/Oswald-Almost-Famous-Opossum-Katherine/dp/099357470X?ie=UTF8&keywords=oswald%2C%20the%20almost%20famous%20opossum&qid=1463242337&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
There were the pictures for the diplomas of “Angel of inspiration” contest for “Razvitum” project in Petersburg. We started this project in 2013,and we’re doing 4 diplomas every year or every 6 months. I like to review those works, this way I can see where my art is moving. They all have the same theme, and the theme of Petersburg in them is growing more and more. Faces are showing more emotions. It will be great if this will continue like that.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/34448475/Muse-3
👦🏽What internet sources do you use to publish and promote your works?
👧🏻Behance, illustrator.ru, instagram,where I publish the works in process (along with photos of my dog:), facebook, and VK, of course.
https://www.behance.net/paskamarja
http://illustrators.ru/users/paskamarja
https://new.vk.com/varyakolesnikova
https://www.facebook.com/paskamarja
👦🏽Where can we find your works, apart from internet galleries?
👧🏻Recently postcards with my pictures were made at Cardspoint shop.
http://cardspoint.ru/ru/vkolesnikova
👦🏽What modern Russian painters, illustrators and designers do you like?
👧🏻Andrey Gordeev, Phil Dunskiy, Polina Yakovleva. We have many cool illustrators.
👦🏽What about foreign masters, who’s inspiring you?
👧🏻
Rebecca Dautremer is my idol.
Shaun Tan - very mood-driven cartoonist.
👦🏽How do you expand your knowledge?
👧🏻For me, there have always been only one way of getting new knowledge – experimentally. It turned out to be the ideal way. I just try to draw. If this looks good – then it works. If no – I’ve messed up and have to redo this.
👦🏽What have you learned in the last 6 months?
👧🏻That I won’t believe that I can do something. By the way, I was very happy that I’ve learned something in my first year of drawing. Like – «Wow, I managed to draw this shadow on the face», or – «Wow, I understand how a dog's nose is organized now», or – «I managed to convey this emotion, hurray!»
Now, the more I learn – the more feeling that I don’t know anything I get.
#interview #Varya_Kolesnikova_part_II #eng