Alexey Kurbatov depicts human emotions and feelings. Even if you just painted the house. Even if this is an illustration for a news site on the topics of the day.
His work - it's not just a filigree technique combining photographs, watercolors and Photoshop, a thin, sensual aesthetics and depth of experience, which is in each, and he pulls it out of us and shows us the same.
Alex illustrated book draws for Snob, Tapes. py. Does the project "White Things" - posters, t-shirts, bags, mugs with his picture. Among which are very vivid portraits of remarkable people, made in a particular style.
But in advertising, he is not involved. What is surprising on the one hand, but on the other - very clear. Lesha work - lively, passionate and dramatic - did not fit into the celluloid, castrated male world of the Russian advertising.
Alex told us AdMe.ru in your favorite genre of an essay about themselves, their work, about life, about what moves them. The man turned out of many talents - told interesting, exciting, deep and very wise.
In our house was a series of books "of great people." In each volume a lot of dull, dry paper with text and reproductions of slightly coated. Later I realized that this principle works in all - chocolate less than filling, the test is greater than jam. These inserts with reproductions I have learned inside and out. The "Sobinov" they were a little unseemly. In "Marat" - very often the same men in wigs. In the "Daumier's" bigger picture, and all about the revolution of guillotines. When therefore I am "reading" the whole life and f, had to learn the magazines. In six years came to "Spark" in which critical social stories about empty shelves and the coup bordered with a constant spacing between articles - terrible polumyshyu of paintings of Bosch. It is fun pulling legs, backs and instead showed a pocket - that's probably the first creative upheaval. Everything else was secondary. All that now we can remember that got out of jumping per page black-eyed creature.
Joseph Brodsky
Boris Strugatsky (For the Snob)
Clint Eastwood
General de Gaulle (To Snob)
Sergei Dovlatov
Mahatma Gandhi
Frida Kahlo
Marlene Dietrich
I'm left-handed. It seems to be - so what? But it says that everything I've always allowed. Does not report to adults, do not interfere with play, not to retrain for right-handers. So if I have decided that you need to earn money, not to learn - I went to work instead of college. So do not get a higher education. And now it is not proud. Come and learn - correctly say respectable professionals. I justify myself, I answer that I draw from morning till night. One order, then another right, followed by a third. Is obtained as a soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner ... what's the pride? Is that what a free man decides everything himself, even if those decisions might be better.
The illustrations on the theme of the day to Lenta.ru. Term of performance of each - 24 hours .
You've got to ask ourselves - why do you do it in this business, and not others? In fact, always wanted to be a chef or a Film Critics. But then it so happened that my aunt is a printing house and the house got a computer and you can draw something, the first card, the first card, colorful world of printing, a single move you make thousands of copies. You also called a designer of printed materials, but the brother has already brought to the plate and it seems to work, something slams - draw between work, then do not work and paint, then you do not understand who all these people were slaughtered with the copies, typos on the eighteenth page and night perevyvodom offset films.
Student riots in London (for snobs)
Illustrations for the September "Snob" (2010)
There is no courage in the decision to start to draw money, of course not. Just at some point you feel someone else's shoes on their feet, they are more on the size and reversed right-left.
It is fair to say that I was not looking for adventures. I think I even got up from the computer. And do not seem to shut Photoshop - so it remained.
Now, when my work is constantly associated with the selection of photos, the time for "live" there is little material. And if you want to ignore, I try not to get involved in this environment the computer. The last few months of experimenting with the oil, but it turned out that this requires some kind of Herculean effort: to breed on the palette all you have to constantly wipe the brush, add thinner, does not smear the paint - in short, a serious business.
Cafe Elefant
Insomnia
Luna de Monte Carlo
Fishing for sardines
Bedtime Stories
When you do your work all the time, you stop to think about the person. In the sense that it is impossible to argue endlessly about the curves of your teeth, if you adore singing. Likewise, I never thought about the chips, handwriting and style of their own - simply because kayfovat from the process and would do nicely. Sometimes you draw something of my own, and if it turns bad, you begin to emulate. You can try to make like a Breughel, but it turns out much worse. You draw a Beardsley - does not work. You take a Fly - there is hope, what will happen in another way. Here is a "different" in the end is a hook, hook for the next step. Then I take a watercolor paper, brushes and wider pozhesche and start having fun. Then, scanning all that happened, and combine photos with blots. I do draw a sketch or do something separate from the photos.
Now, however, there was a lot of guys who work on the same principle. In my opinion, they have nothing to say. I do not like that they go, and I myself am starting to doubt whether this technique is justified.
Troubled Slummer
Whaits, Davis, Cocker
Woodstock 1969
And here, when the doubts begin, you need to understand the concepts. Put yourself in the right corner and look out at all, knowing that the weak cards in the hands of more than trumps. First - who is an artist and illustrator who? What is graphic, and that the gag in the strip set? Who wants to hear you, and who do you stand on the leg? This is a cold, uncomfortable questions. The artist - this is certainly the creator of defining their own rules. He has his own route and the courage to be different from start to finish. I - not an artist. No illustration graphics can not be called if a magazine or a book after reading the want to throw in the trash. I specifically draw a long and carefully, so that was a pity to throw away. Still very much afraid, when browsing, but the hands are ready to vomit. And perhaps most important - you will always regret and love what you paint, and the other is quite interesting. So if you say "cool" - consider the program a maximum of executed. A person who is willing to articulate their experience difficult need to kiss, feed and give a picture for memory.
Undecided
Shakespeare Sonnet 90
Stay
Toujours l'amore
I once thought that a large number of people remain in the office, not because their work involves the community, and because they used to be a part of something. Kindergarten group, school class, group, institution, etc. Head - a parent, teacher, father and mother, a collective image. When I felt that I could live without the head and staff - it was a real epiphany.
At the same time I had to understand that the inspiration for the work may not be. In general, you need to forget about this word. Every day I am preparing for a long conversation with yourself. It looks like this: Well, as it is all put together? Then remove the black contour of the figure outweighs Repeat on the left back then, all you need to rearrange and change the green to purple Do you all 40 minutes. The purpose of this meeting a: to make something whole, dense, bring artwork to the state, when out of her as the apple of the bone can not be removed without damaging the fruit.
By Tatyana Tolstaya short story "The small fire" (For the Snob)
For the story of Ludmila Petrushevskaya "Declaration of Love" (For the Snob)
Generally interesting to see how your body understands the creative process. I've never made a plan of action, not thinking about the daily routine. But recently noticed that after reading the text you want to illustrate just going to deal with some extraneous matter. That is, when the head crammed information, you can safely ride a bike or cook dinner. There, inside the text is softened, stirred, shaken, and after an hour and a half, you can get a good cocktail.
And once was. I love video Simply Red «Sunrise», where all the sexy shot: beautiful villa, the boys light up, the girls are languishing. And I especially liked the frame with a thin dancer, which bends under the scorching sun, and under her feet moving dense shade. I kept thinking how to capture, where the show. Seven years did not know how and where, and then drew a picture «Shaking Blues».
With the bad stuff does not happen - I sit down and understand that the information is stone, paint nothing. Here again a need to talk, push apart, to inspire: Come on, come on, work, do something, the confusion! In general, such a working environment similar to some amusing nonsense.
Shaking Blues
By Andrew Gelasimov story "Asian and Pauline" (For the Snob)
By Alena Doletskaya story "Corporate joint" (For the Snob)
The hardest part of the work - new orders for the regular background. They have not yet become smaller, and have to constantly draw. In this case, the quality of such work should not get worse. When this rhythm refers to you a new person, you try to ask some clarifying questions, but they only eat away all the work. You ask about the colors, style, nature of the work - or the fairy-tale romantic, male or female, asked to see examples. A man shows, hammering the final nail: "I want in the May issue of Snob!"
And then did not explain that in the May Snob somehow coincidence, then what you're thinking and what inspires you? I want to confess that from you nothing at all depended. You've just got a hand, was lucky. In other words, everything comes down to fear of losing the ability to draw anything. I understand that tomorrow it could all change, and none of this will never accomplish anything.
For the English folk tale "The Black Bull of Norroueya"
Shmutstituly the novel by James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Alexander Ilichevsky "mathematician" . Head of the novel (for Snob)
Now draw a lot in a state of mild doltishness and narcissism. And if life itself goes on, the same as in all, then its image can be done with everything, a bright and impressive. And then it turns out that more people busy wrapping paper: wearing glasses, although the vision is excellent, turning pink listening pop-rock, although once loved Genesis, drinking Long Island, but always preferred yogurt with sugar. This man is entirely occupied by them. If he is an illustrator, be sure to draw something nice, expected, really bad if you just fashionable. Now I'm waiting for the deer run out against the backdrop of Victorian wallpaper and luketmishnye girls in catatonic stupor. They are not getting smaller, and in this universal conspiracy seems to me that the search for new themes are not heated. Diligence, industriousness, samoedstvo and thorough approach - all of unfashionable fart who need to move over or draw cheaply and quickly. Although I think that even if you need a style illustrations of the magazine "Youth" in 1989 - it will also be a fashion, but not a meaningful approach. The worst thing that there are people who can change this situation.
How to finish that thought? Perhaps that's true. Every night I dream a dream: in a large room at the table sitting 10 art directors. I go to everyone, look in the ear, find the section "Illustrators", but I see in it only numbers and figures. This format fillers for voids in the text.
Sleep, of course, ugly. Especially because I know the art directors who belong to the illustrations with respect. Know and love this schedule is always building up the text and image as a balance mechanism.
By the passage from the novel by Yuri Arabov "Orleans" (For the Snob)
For the story of Victoria Tokareva "I hope ..." (For the Snob)
When I really wanted to make a drawing of a profession, I was introduced to a wonderful designer. His name is Andrey Bondarenko. He then looked shaky portfolios, charming stammer, to speculate about Houellebecq and Gary and arranged with several studios to look for me there. The studios also looked at portfolios, and said - we will call you. Then I prepared a fifteen beautiful envelopes with the printouts of work and sent them to the editorial board of leading journals. None of them did not answer. In short, it was a time when everyone was hanging over the choice - either you draw on, or come back in the printing industry. For those who are just starting, I will say this: it is already clear that no one likes you and you do not need anyone - we practicing illustrators, and so close to each other, because we are all happy to draw a deer.
But it makes no sense to turn back. Take in debt 20 000 rubles for food, cover and paint a month online every day, all you want. Then look at what happened and ask yourself "kayfovo?" If you do not kayfovo, no "but" can not be - have to sit on.
His work - it's not just a filigree technique combining photographs, watercolors and Photoshop, a thin, sensual aesthetics and depth of experience, which is in each, and he pulls it out of us and shows us the same.
Alex illustrated book draws for Snob, Tapes. py. Does the project "White Things" - posters, t-shirts, bags, mugs with his picture. Among which are very vivid portraits of remarkable people, made in a particular style.
But in advertising, he is not involved. What is surprising on the one hand, but on the other - very clear. Lesha work - lively, passionate and dramatic - did not fit into the celluloid, castrated male world of the Russian advertising.
Alex told us AdMe.ru in your favorite genre of an essay about themselves, their work, about life, about what moves them. The man turned out of many talents - told interesting, exciting, deep and very wise.
Marlene Dietrich
I'm left-handed. It seems to be - so what? But it says that everything I've always allowed. Does not report to adults, do not interfere with play, not to retrain for right-handers. So if I have decided that you need to earn money, not to learn - I went to work instead of college. So do not get a higher education. And now it is not proud. Come and learn - correctly say respectable professionals. I justify myself, I answer that I draw from morning till night. One order, then another right, followed by a third. Is obtained as a soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner ... what's the pride? Is that what a free man decides everything himself, even if those decisions might be better.
The illustrations on the theme of the day to Lenta.ru. Term of performance of each - 24 hours .
You've got to ask ourselves - why do you do it in this business, and not others? In fact, always wanted to be a chef or a Film Critics. But then it so happened that my aunt is a printing house and the house got a computer and you can draw something, the first card, the first card, colorful world of printing, a single move you make thousands of copies. You also called a designer of printed materials, but the brother has already brought to the plate and it seems to work, something slams - draw between work, then do not work and paint, then you do not understand who all these people were slaughtered with the copies, typos on the eighteenth page and night perevyvodom offset films.
Illustrations for the September "Snob" (2010)
There is no courage in the decision to start to draw money, of course not. Just at some point you feel someone else's shoes on their feet, they are more on the size and reversed right-left.
It is fair to say that I was not looking for adventures. I think I even got up from the computer. And do not seem to shut Photoshop - so it remained.
Now, when my work is constantly associated with the selection of photos, the time for "live" there is little material. And if you want to ignore, I try not to get involved in this environment the computer. The last few months of experimenting with the oil, but it turned out that this requires some kind of Herculean effort: to breed on the palette all you have to constantly wipe the brush, add thinner, does not smear the paint - in short, a serious business.
Bedtime Stories
When you do your work all the time, you stop to think about the person. In the sense that it is impossible to argue endlessly about the curves of your teeth, if you adore singing. Likewise, I never thought about the chips, handwriting and style of their own - simply because kayfovat from the process and would do nicely. Sometimes you draw something of my own, and if it turns bad, you begin to emulate. You can try to make like a Breughel, but it turns out much worse. You draw a Beardsley - does not work. You take a Fly - there is hope, what will happen in another way. Here is a "different" in the end is a hook, hook for the next step. Then I take a watercolor paper, brushes and wider pozhesche and start having fun. Then, scanning all that happened, and combine photos with blots. I do draw a sketch or do something separate from the photos.
Now, however, there was a lot of guys who work on the same principle. In my opinion, they have nothing to say. I do not like that they go, and I myself am starting to doubt whether this technique is justified.
Woodstock 1969
And here, when the doubts begin, you need to understand the concepts. Put yourself in the right corner and look out at all, knowing that the weak cards in the hands of more than trumps. First - who is an artist and illustrator who? What is graphic, and that the gag in the strip set? Who wants to hear you, and who do you stand on the leg? This is a cold, uncomfortable questions. The artist - this is certainly the creator of defining their own rules. He has his own route and the courage to be different from start to finish. I - not an artist. No illustration graphics can not be called if a magazine or a book after reading the want to throw in the trash. I specifically draw a long and carefully, so that was a pity to throw away. Still very much afraid, when browsing, but the hands are ready to vomit. And perhaps most important - you will always regret and love what you paint, and the other is quite interesting. So if you say "cool" - consider the program a maximum of executed. A person who is willing to articulate their experience difficult need to kiss, feed and give a picture for memory.
Toujours l'amore
I once thought that a large number of people remain in the office, not because their work involves the community, and because they used to be a part of something. Kindergarten group, school class, group, institution, etc. Head - a parent, teacher, father and mother, a collective image. When I felt that I could live without the head and staff - it was a real epiphany.
At the same time I had to understand that the inspiration for the work may not be. In general, you need to forget about this word. Every day I am preparing for a long conversation with yourself. It looks like this: Well, as it is all put together? Then remove the black contour of the figure outweighs Repeat on the left back then, all you need to rearrange and change the green to purple Do you all 40 minutes. The purpose of this meeting a: to make something whole, dense, bring artwork to the state, when out of her as the apple of the bone can not be removed without damaging the fruit.
For the story of Ludmila Petrushevskaya "Declaration of Love" (For the Snob)
Generally interesting to see how your body understands the creative process. I've never made a plan of action, not thinking about the daily routine. But recently noticed that after reading the text you want to illustrate just going to deal with some extraneous matter. That is, when the head crammed information, you can safely ride a bike or cook dinner. There, inside the text is softened, stirred, shaken, and after an hour and a half, you can get a good cocktail.
And once was. I love video Simply Red «Sunrise», where all the sexy shot: beautiful villa, the boys light up, the girls are languishing. And I especially liked the frame with a thin dancer, which bends under the scorching sun, and under her feet moving dense shade. I kept thinking how to capture, where the show. Seven years did not know how and where, and then drew a picture «Shaking Blues».
With the bad stuff does not happen - I sit down and understand that the information is stone, paint nothing. Here again a need to talk, push apart, to inspire: Come on, come on, work, do something, the confusion! In general, such a working environment similar to some amusing nonsense.
By Alena Doletskaya story "Corporate joint" (For the Snob)
The hardest part of the work - new orders for the regular background. They have not yet become smaller, and have to constantly draw. In this case, the quality of such work should not get worse. When this rhythm refers to you a new person, you try to ask some clarifying questions, but they only eat away all the work. You ask about the colors, style, nature of the work - or the fairy-tale romantic, male or female, asked to see examples. A man shows, hammering the final nail: "I want in the May issue of Snob!"
And then did not explain that in the May Snob somehow coincidence, then what you're thinking and what inspires you? I want to confess that from you nothing at all depended. You've just got a hand, was lucky. In other words, everything comes down to fear of losing the ability to draw anything. I understand that tomorrow it could all change, and none of this will never accomplish anything.
Alexander Ilichevsky "mathematician" . Head of the novel (for Snob)
Now draw a lot in a state of mild doltishness and narcissism. And if life itself goes on, the same as in all, then its image can be done with everything, a bright and impressive. And then it turns out that more people busy wrapping paper: wearing glasses, although the vision is excellent, turning pink listening pop-rock, although once loved Genesis, drinking Long Island, but always preferred yogurt with sugar. This man is entirely occupied by them. If he is an illustrator, be sure to draw something nice, expected, really bad if you just fashionable. Now I'm waiting for the deer run out against the backdrop of Victorian wallpaper and luketmishnye girls in catatonic stupor. They are not getting smaller, and in this universal conspiracy seems to me that the search for new themes are not heated. Diligence, industriousness, samoedstvo and thorough approach - all of unfashionable fart who need to move over or draw cheaply and quickly. Although I think that even if you need a style illustrations of the magazine "Youth" in 1989 - it will also be a fashion, but not a meaningful approach. The worst thing that there are people who can change this situation.
How to finish that thought? Perhaps that's true. Every night I dream a dream: in a large room at the table sitting 10 art directors. I go to everyone, look in the ear, find the section "Illustrators", but I see in it only numbers and figures. This format fillers for voids in the text.
Sleep, of course, ugly. Especially because I know the art directors who belong to the illustrations with respect. Know and love this schedule is always building up the text and image as a balance mechanism.
For the story of Victoria Tokareva "I hope ..." (For the Snob)
When I really wanted to make a drawing of a profession, I was introduced to a wonderful designer. His name is Andrey Bondarenko. He then looked shaky portfolios, charming stammer, to speculate about Houellebecq and Gary and arranged with several studios to look for me there. The studios also looked at portfolios, and said - we will call you. Then I prepared a fifteen beautiful envelopes with the printouts of work and sent them to the editorial board of leading journals. None of them did not answer. In short, it was a time when everyone was hanging over the choice - either you draw on, or come back in the printing industry. For those who are just starting, I will say this: it is already clear that no one likes you and you do not need anyone - we practicing illustrators, and so close to each other, because we are all happy to draw a deer.
But it makes no sense to turn back. Take in debt 20 000 rubles for food, cover and paint a month online every day, all you want. Then look at what happened and ask yourself "kayfovo?" If you do not kayfovo, no "but" can not be - have to sit on.
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