Welcome to our “Guest of the Week” series. This will be our first installment featuring laFraise artist, Konstantin Shalev.
When asked about himself, Konstantin says:
“I was born in Poland, the city of Legnica in 1986, and then my parents moved to Russia to the city of Krasnodar, and now I live here in the countryside. I graduated from Kuban State University majoring in graphic design, my main specialty was packaging, but I was more interested in illustration. I have been riding a skateboard for 6 years, sponsored by local skateshop and have won prizes in regional competitions. Skateboarding has largely influenced my style of drawing and my interests. I love listening to indie-rock, metal, punkrock, but I ride skateboard only listening to rap. One day I stumbled upon LaFraise and posted a recently drawn illustration without even hoping to win, before I’ve never tried to send my works to contests. What a surprise it was, when I won 1000 Euro, I thought that this was simply unreal. Since then I began to draw more pictures, and began to develop. After winning the second time I was double happy.”
We asked him about his view on laFraise, and what he likes/dislikes about us:
“As for LaFraise, it helps me develop my skills, and I receive feedback for most works, it helps me grow.
I love LaFraise! Thanks to LaFraise I’ve been payed money and don’t have to go to the army, and I can continue to develop and draw, rather than march :)”
Konstantin’s (For Fun) Weekly Selection is:
“This week, I liked the work “In the mood for funk” by Reack, I like his style and fonts, as well as I liked the approach to minute details of the robot in “Mix’o matoz” by beyond the church. I am a huge fan of his works! I liked the work “Que lache” by I_am_Jonas. The font composition is pretty good, nice character, but maybe different color of T-shirts? and I liked “Kid” P “” by svenh.
Perhaps these are not the works I like best; my choice was made on the basis of votes in the gallery, and I really like the style of “FrigoBanjo“, “akrapf“, “SHORT“, “playmoO“, “Niark1“, “zombiecorp“.”
Thank you Konstantin, always a pleasure to have you on laFraise!
