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My background

My name is Ekaterina Boguslavskaya. I was born in Russia.

I studied in Moscow However, I lived in the countryside.

It was cold and there was no hot water and the home was heated with a furnace, and the neighbors raised cows and goats. Wonderful times! In addition to nature and bikes I was obsessed with cartoons. All my peers became adults and stopped enjoying cartoons. I was the opposite! I realized it could become my preferred thing to do. It was how I got into the film academy in Moscow, Russia.

My style

I want my drawings to always bring out some deeply emotional feelings. As if you are sitting with a fire in the middle of a day of skiing in the woods.

My process

I love drawing. There's something that it shares with meditation. While I'm at work, it may get dark and dark. I may also become hungry, but it doesn't really is important while engaged in my work.

Today, I'm employed both in the animation industry and illustration... And there are board games too. I truly love my job.

I've always drawn a lot. It started looking better after I completed my studies. As I decided what and how I draw.

My suggestion to skeptical visual artists

Find something you love and you will surely enjoy the thing you like about it. Do your best to not listen to people when you don't appreciate what they're doing. Everything will work out! You will meet people who will be enthralled by what you're doing.

My technique

I draw everything I can on my iPad in Procreate. I sometimes finish something in Photoshop.

The iPad has really improved my life. Now I work in my bed, at libraries, in cafes. It is my choice of where to work. I also wander around and do not just sit in front of my computer. The iPad is a treasure that combines classic drawing and computer-generated drawing.

The iPad is loaded with great brushes. For example, I got watercolor brushes from "The Watercolor MaxPack - Brushes for Procreate". I get excited every time I try the brushes. They're very close to the real thing as they can get.

Some words on what I do for job.

It is my goal to create a rough outline of the objects. As I find hard edges brutal and cold.

Sometimes I make my shadows cold and bluish by using the multiply setting. Sometimes I use overlay. But I don't understand that very much.

Procreate offers some excellent blur options, check them out! There are several kinds of them, and they're very good. But mostly I draw as I do with traditional tools on paper or canvas.

I'm still searching, still learning about my subject, and trying to get closer to the image I enjoy by doing personal projects.

Information about the Teriberka series

I visited there following my travels (to Teriberka). Russian North, the Arctic. The town was once used to build ships and catch a lot of fish. Now it's kind of abandoned.

Google it, please! It is very beautiful.

I'm always drawn to the North.

I like the animals, the people, the millions of shades of the moss. The tiny berries have a lot of vitamin C, which is more than any tropical fruit. This is quite impressive.

Northern Cliffs appear to be the skin of huge elephants! These are the emotions that I tried to show through the photos.

The Tiny Things series

The idea for this project came to my head after I had become exhausted of work, the pandemic, and the city.

I purchased a macro lens and went deep into the woods. And how much incredible beauty was under my feet! Every inch of nature was stunning. It gave me plenty of inspiration and creativity. This is how the idea came to be.

In spite of everything no matter what happens, there's a wonder right under the feet!

How I organize my time for work?

It is a challenge to control your time and relaxation and to refuse proposals that aren't acceptable. or to do lots of tasks, in order to stay afloat without getting tired from doing the things you enjoy. The whole thing I'm studying.

The creative blockages

The most difficult aspect is actually the procedure itself Sometimes it fails to take place. The result isn't what I want. So you can suffer for up to eight hours and get angry. After that, just a few days after, you can redo it in an hour and it looks great. What's that? Magic.

This is my little piece of advice on how to overcome creativity blocks

If you are faced with a particular kind of work to do, you should not sit down immediately to draw (if it's possible). Your brain should be able to process the task as you go along working on other tasks. It's the way I see the best solutions come.

My view of my work

If I were to grade my own work - I would never give myself the grade of "excellent". It's extremely exhausting and makes me am a slave to myself. But on the other hand it pushes me forward.

Drawing is like a great adventure!

If you have tickets to another country. You have a knowledge of it from Google but something might surprise you on the spot. So far, it seems as if it would be a great adventure for me.

You can find other works by Ekaterina on and keep an eye out for the next installment of the series shown here through Instagram , Artstation or Behance.