I hold a Master’s degree in Fine Arts with honors from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, heir to the Imperial Academy of Arts, where Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, and Karl Bryullov studied. Classical painting is the foundation of how I work with composition, color, and storytelling.

I started in animation as a character designer and background artist, then moved into game development. Today I’m a lead artist at a game studio, creating art for PC games. Both fields shaped how I approach characters and the worlds they live in.

I’m drawn to characters with a strong presence: quiet confidence, mystery, a hint of danger, told through silhouettes, expressions, and small deliberate details. Painting digitally or pixel by pixel, I want each one to feel like someone with a story beyond the frame.

Alongside games, I’m creating THE UNNAMED, my first solo collection: pixel art portraits of hidden identities, inspired by medieval imagery and dark fantasy, with lore that unfolds over time.