tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68050385750002595382012-02-16T19:05:19.357ZCharacter Designer • Visual Development Artist • IllustratorNastya Cusackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153070288401020215noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805038575000259538.post-17853670686191308242011-08-12T21:33:00.001+01:002011-08-12T21:34:00.964+01:00

Hi! Well, I feel like this is time for a change, so I'm moving  to : http://hiddenbrush.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you all there! :)

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there once lived an old lady and she had two merry geese... :)  (russian children's song "Два веселых гуся") apologies for the quality of this picture, my old scanner stopped working so I had to use my phone :(

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"The White Heron" continued...   Thanks for watching! :)

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;)

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illustrating children's story "The White Heron" written by the russian writer N. D. Teleshov (1867 - 1957) this is one illustration out of 9, i'll post all of them in progress...

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stay tuned.... :)

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... :)

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... O___o

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Following the White Rabbit 100sqft 5th Art Exhibition Launches 23rd October as part of Arts After Dark at ArtEgg Studios: 1001 South Broad Street, New Orleans, 70125, from 6:30pm - 10:30pm It'll be then returning back to London in the end of November, so watch this space.. ;)

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Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl)...(read more) To be continued...

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Hello! :) It's been a long time since my last post with an actual picture in it and even longer time since it was a post with a finished picture. So... here you go, my latest illustration. It was done for the 4th 100sqft Exhibition which is launching in London on August 1st, pop in to say "Hi" if you feel like it. :) W. I. P     

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Hey guys, Beautiful Grim auction 2nd wave launches June 1st (today)!!!!! :) Full information can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=176562320417 and here: http://www.beautifulgrim.org/ 46 artists in this wave including yours truly, and once again a lot of wonderful art to choose from! Please repost if you can. UPDATE: 

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Hey guys and girls! Friends and friends of friends! The Beautiful Grim art fundraiser: http://beautifulgrim.org is starting first wave of auctions this Saturday (24/04/2010), so if you want to do something for the good cause, go and check: http://art.beautifulgrim.org/ there is plenty of awesome art to choose from and contributing artists come from all fields of the industry: animators,

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"A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing." © Edgar Allan PoeW. I. P. will post finished version sometime soon... maybe... if i manage to finish this one

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Last November I came across this post on Jon Schindehette's blog.So here is my contribution to the Beautiful Grim, which is an art fundraiser to help a young girl Cat who had to go through chemotherapy and a bilateral mastectomy for fighting breast cancer.Well, my idea and interpretation of "Beautiful Grim" changed a lot since I started to work on it... I post here two versions, the very first

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Hi guys! :) With all the exciting Christmas and New Years stuff I had no time to post something Holiday Season related, but as this post title says: it's better late than never, so... Happy New Year! Thanks a lot to everyone who stopped by my blog in 2009 and in these first few days of 2010 and I hope that new year will bring you everything you wish for and even more! :):)

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That's what happens when you don't explain that not every frog is an enchanted prince... most of them are not... anywayno frogs or goldfishes were harmed during the process of drawing of this picture:)

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Krampus is the last ArtOrder Challenge in 2009. Hope to see even more cool stuff published there in 2010.Big thanks to Jon Schindehette for his great blog and Heather Hudson for the fun idea for this challenge! :)P. S. Be good kids or Krampus will get you... ;)

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50 min in Painter X, face is OK, hand is rubbish but i'll leave it like this for now...P. S. BTW, it has nothing to do with infamous Twilight. It's more about too much coffee, insomnia and 'Salem's Lot.:)

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From photo 30 min. in Painter X...

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Part 1... Dragonfly and Egbert set off on their first adventureThe forest is going to be filled with tiny magical critters ;)Have a good weekend everyone!:)

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Molly SawyerOscar Brassthe good guys :)It all started from this... actually the idea came from Tom Holland's "The Vampire", "Supping with panthers" and "Deliver us from evil", great read recommended for the fans of vampires, victorians, London and so on. ;):)

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Early concepts for something which possibly will become Victorian Steampunk story... well sort of... Can't help myself, love Victorians for all their craziness and willingness to believe in all sorts of strange things, love Steampunk for the imagination and style... Anyway, something like that.. :)Thanks for watching!:)P. S. In case anyone interested, some new stuff on Princess Dragonfly story is

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for Patricio Oliver's "26 Tiny TombStones a Tribute to Edward Gorey", will be posted here in couple of weeks.  UPDATEMy hungry mice became an official part of  "26 Tiny TombStones a Tribute to Edward Gorey". :)  Go check the blog out, there are some great illustrations there by artists from around the world (lots of fun stuff)! I'm glad to be part of this project, thanks to Patricio Oliver for

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Hey guys! Apologies for not posting anything lately.So here is some new stuff I've been working on recently, it's a little story about a princess called Dragonfly and her dragon Egbert and their glorious adventures. All the usual stuff: an evil wizard (or possibly a witch), great knight and noble steed, happily ever after and so on...:) I'm working on characters now and planning to move to

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and Sir Pirador... :)

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Hello again, it's been a loooong time since my last post, but I'm back and will try to post more frequently from now on...:) Anyways here is some new stuff I've been working on recently. Thanks for watching!:)

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Quick sketch and colour scheme for the project I'm working on now... lots of fairies of all kinds.:)P.S. Still very busy, will post more stuff soon.

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It's a VERY quick sketch, I just couldn't help myself. If you like good cinematography, do yourself a favor and go see "Let the right one in". It's not only a great movie it's also a rare case when the movie is actually a lot better than the book it is based on.:)

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Hey, guys! Recently I've been very busy with three totally different projects (character concepts and pre-production for sci-fi type of game, concepts and characters for fantasy project and children's book illustrations) it's all very cool and exciting, but I have no time to draw anything for myself or art jam... I'll be finishing two of this projects in couple of weeks and will definitely get

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Another quick sketch for Jon Schindehette's Tuesday Concept Sketch art jam session. This week challenge is Constructs. So here is a mechanical ox powered up by crystals. Actually something clicked in my brain when I saw bisons in an awesome documentary about Yellowstone the other day.:)

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close upis a very small dragon rider and yes, his dragon has no wings and technically is just a big lizard, but they both are very important members of a very scary heavy cavalry...:)P. S. Just in case, this picture was inspired by Paul Bonner's artwork. He is one of those few artists whose work stands out and who makes the impossible look easy. The characters, composition, technique, attention

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This is a quick sketch for Jon Schindehette's Tuesday Concept Sketch art jam session. This week challenge was about Orcus' pet (if he had one). So this is what I came up with.:)

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warm up8)

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This was my diploma project at Uni in 2002... Based on "The golden pot" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, done in ink and watercolours.Have a good weekend!:)

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The Green Fairy...:)

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people around me

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Porcelain dolls and the Carnival of Venice both are fascinating and spooky in the same time. You never know what is hiding inside or who is behind the mask and where the Master who pulls the strings and turns the keys comes from... It's time to play...;)

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...

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all my girlfriends are obsessed with "Twilight"... sorry guys, but I just couldn't help it... ;)

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...

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Well, here is something I've been working on lately, project based on characters from Russian folk tales. Leshiy or Lesovik is a woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests... :)

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from very old crappy one, still not great but... new ;)

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sleepy knight

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Mmm...when I was little i really liked children stories written by Otfried Preussler While visiting family in Moscow this time I found one of those books (it wasn't difficult to find, my Mum keeps a LOT of my old stuff:)) and it brought back childhood memories and I felt somehow inspired. :) To cut long story short: the book is called "The Little Witch", the main character is 120 years old (which

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the witching hour...

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Hey guys:) I hope you all had a great holidays! So here is my first post in the new year...Please feel free to drop a comment! :)

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More stuff to come in 2009. Happy Holidays everyone!!! :)

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