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In 2006, I bought a Wacom Intuos 3 and started experimenting with digital art. By then, I\u2019d had enough of designing business cards and websites; I was determined to find work specifically as an illustrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the very beginning of the digital artist community in Russia. We shared our work, faced criticism, and occasionally met up for joint sketching sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, I tried to make my digital pieces too precise and detailed\u2014an approach that only distanced me from true art. I wasn\u2019t skilled enough for actual realism back then, and overworking the pieces usually made them worse. Still, that was my process at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occasionally, there were also sudden returns to analog media, like gouache.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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