Here are the drawings I made while traveling Scotland this October. I posted them in chronological order, based on when I visited the castles. Make sure to click on links in the castles' descriptions - those will lead you to 3D Google maps view so you can see what the castle looks like in real life ( Read more... )

Fan art for Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit - Hobbiton and Bag End.

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The Endless Book project is officially over, but I am continuing on my own, as I'm nowhere near the end. Today I'm sharing what might be my most favourite double-page spread so far. Meet Fili, Kili, Bifur, Bofur Bombur and the rest of the dwarves!


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Last November a friend of mine came to visit from New York and we spent a very busy weekend together, running from museum to museum. By Sunday evening Dasha got very bored with us adults, took my sketchbook and started to draw. That night she came up with more than 20 different magical animals, each with unique personality and a name. When I saw ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been almost six months since I shared my Hobbit book progress! Time to fix that and show what I've been working on.

The Endless Book illustration project is curated by Natalie Ratkovski

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This June I was privileged to create an illustration for Orson Scott Card's book "Enchantment." Mr Card is a great storyteller; his book "Ender's Game" became a Hollywood blockbuster last year, starring Harrison Ford. The Enchantment is a story based on Russian folklore. The main character is a son of russian-jewish immigrants who left the Soviet ( Read more... )

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Natalie Ratkovski's Endless Book Project is in Week 30 now and I continue to work on my "Endless" Hobbit book. As my friend magisters asked me, I tried to document the process of creating one of my illustrations and show the materials that I use.
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Here are the illustrations for weeks 18-19 of the Endless Book project: goblins!


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