Artist of the Day: Ilya Donets

Ilya Donets

LOCATION: Moscow, Russia
PRIMARY MEDIA: Colored pencils, digital [Photoshop]
EDUCATION: State University of Technology and Design, Saint Petersburg [Jewelry art, 2005]
MAJOR PROJECTS:
Notes and Sketches Concerning Second Trip along Blue Sun Island book [2010]
Biga and Kasa book [2011]
Sound of Mushrooms book and video game [current project]
WHAT IS THE MOST VALUABLE PIECE OF ARTISTIC ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER RECEIVED, AND FROM WHO?
It was: “Maybe you should add some eyelashes or something like that.” It was long ago when I was in art school. I’d been working on one of my first personal pieces. The topic was “imaginary still-life.” I intended to depict the close-up of a human eye with the skull of a horse mirrored in it. Alas, I had not enough skills at that time for such a complicated idea, so it turned out that my piece without verbal instructions looked completely abstract. That time I ignored the advice given to me by my art teacher, Alexandr Simuni, but I later realized that it was the right solution. I always recall that case now when confronting the problem of illegibility in my artwork.
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