My advice for newcomers in the design sphere:ġ) Don’t be afraid of all your failures. What advice would you give to new designers who are just starting out? My favourite design resources are Dribbble, Behance, Pinterest and Instagram accounts of creative people. Do you have any favorite design resources? All creative people from Ukraine tried to help our country through art - we did a lot of posters against the war in Ukraine and all funds from selling were sent to charity organizations. How do you approach creative collaboration?Īctually, I started creative collaborations this spring. I don't know how I would have handled all of this without my job. So, I can say that I’m lucky.Īnd of course, my job and the drawing process really helps me to feel alive during this awful war in Ukraine. I love my job now! I think it’s really cool to do what you like the most and have the ability to earn money doing it. I’m really happy and I’m proud of myself that I wasn't afraid to change my life and to change my job. Freelance has its own pros and cons but I really love this type of employment. I really loved this job, but I continued to receive offers for some small but interesting projects so that's why I decided to try to work as a freelancer. ![]() Later I started to work with an animation agency and drew illustrations for future animation. I continued to post illustrations on Instagram and Dribbble and started to receive offers for work opportunities on small projects. I started to draw and posted my illustrations on my Instagram account just for fun but later some people asked me to draw for themselves on commission. I started to learn a lot of different things, such as how to make 3D characters in Zbrush, how to animate 2D objects (and by the way, my frontend background helped me A LOT with understanding scripts and expressions in After Effects) and then I decided to stop with how to create illustrations in Procreate and Adobe Illustrator. That’s when I decided to change my life and I quit - and I couldn’t even imagine what to do next. I started to realize that something went wrong and it wasn’t my way. It was too boring for me to work as a developer, to be honest. I always heard stories about poor artists and my surroundings always told me that I was too smart for "being just a designer or illustrator." What nonsense! But, nevertheless, I decided to choose this "serious" job of a developer instead of developing my skills in drawing. ![]() I used to work as a front end developer and thought that the profession of illustrator didn’t sound serious. I've loved to draw my entire life, but I started to work as Illustrator just a couple years ago. Honestly, I love when people ask me how I became an illustrator because I love my journey of creativity :) Hi Polina! Tell us about yourself - how did you get to where you are today? What first sparked your interest in design? Polina Khristoyeva and is a freelance illustrator from Ukraine who pivoted to art and design from a background in frontend development.
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