Digital Illustration

January 2021. These illustration are rather personal. It’s that feeling when you are taking a leap of faith and entering a frightening period of unprecedented change. It washes over you, it’s both intense and freeing, melting away the contours of your old persona, inviting you to let go of rationalising and compartmentalising your feelings. letting yourself experience and react instead of acting, watching something new and fresh take the place of your old meticulously constructed and maintained self.

Triumph of Galatea – My illustration for Sigulda’s exhibition. My version of the famous painting “The Triumph of Galatea”. The whole concept of the exhibition was about rebirth and the creation of new ones, after the pandemic situation, which included 9 people from different fields such as writers, musicians, and artists.

Malduguns brewery – A label for Double IPA beer named “Mūļāps”, which represent a clumsy, yet bright and funny person. Made by the legendary “Malduguns” beer brewery.

Cornfield runner – A cancelled sketch for a book cover, about a boy who lived in Georgian mountains, in USSR times.

1. When I grow up I want to be a bouquet.
Society praises achievements – the more professional labels you have, the more admired and respected you are. Illustration represents the wish to become a beautiful human being (beautiful as a bouquet), instead of well-labeled human.

2. Music addiction.
Records are spilled out of a drug bottle.

3. Burning man.
The moment of apathy – your head is burning, everything around seems empty and there is not much you can do.

I enjoy drawing human faces and I like to portray them in a weird manner. Making them look dreamy, even nightmarish.

My main focus on children book illustration and landscapes. Some woks are made for books others for fun or album covers. I like to create mystical, magical, calm atmosphere. I love to play with light and colors.

In these illustrations you can find what I see when I read poetry. These images appeared when I read J. Marcinkevičius “Autoanalizė“. It is about human who tries to find himself. He wanders in the world compares himself to the sun and drop of water he doubts himself and others he asks and does not receive answers.

Her work is characterised by a strong storytelling bent and frequently celebrates the small absurdities of everyday life. She likes looking around and telling stories about the things she observes, however does not limit herself to the present moments only. Having a curious mind and a somewhat nostalgic heart, she also enjoys rummaging through archives, researching and finding interesting stories to tell or retell in different visual forms, such as digital comics or stand-alone illustrations or printed matter: small editions of books, booklets, art prints and others.

She is currently building an analogue print house in Kaunas, Lithuania with an intention to have a space for artists and non-artists to learn, create, print and self-publish. Having fallen deeply in love with printmaking, her goal is to attract more people into the exciting world of limited editions with the help of risography, screen-printing, relief printing and more.

The artwork presented is the latest illustrations done for various occasions, rather than a continuous project. During the current state of events, I found my illustration style become less spontaneous and more detail-oriented, atmospheric. Every image presented here is static, every character portrayed is almost on-hold; however, every single one of them has a narrative. One is swiping through the social media in the self-made jungle that their house has become during the quarantine; another is celebrating Christmas alone yet in the exact same way that they had done all the other times; there is a girl in a bar that has completely immersed herself in the story she is reading and the red wine she is consuming; a couple of lovers are flying through the empty corridors of a hotel in a Chagall-like manner; and finally, there is this confused silly looking Mr Spring, who is really in no rush to reach the final destination.
All the illustrations are done digitally, some of them have become prints on canvases or riso-prints, some have stayed in their digital form.

This field dictates me a new way of creating process, which is full of unpredictability, coincidence, experiments, and joy of creative process which leads to express inner self.

Most of my works distinguish for their sensitivity to the visual forms, used materials, interdisciplinarity (monotype mixed with cyanotype; illustrations made on the printer screen with augmented reality and etc.), unconventional visual decisions, and intuition.

In 2017 was released my personal, interactive book project “Plains Stone”. (https://vimeo.com/175802152). Later one I was working on projects related to baltic-pagan culture. In 2019 was my first debut on the theater stage, as a mono-play “KItOKIA” visual artist and animator. Last autumn with theater people to the audience we present another solo project, the surrealistic fairytale play “9.18”, which is based on real teenager’s stories of life.

Surrealistic hand-drawing illustrations are a part, of the visual solo play ‘9.18’ which premiere for the audience was in 2020 on the 9th of September. Solo play, and all the illustrations, as a visual form, are based on real teenager stories, which often sound like a fairytale, but actually, it is a real-life, with hard lessons, challenges, problems, and losses the young people are facing. The symbols, hidden meaning, and visual figurative sense let to tell the story, which is often are hidden inside and were never spoken before.

All the surrealistic illustrations came to the visual expression very intuitively, drawing a daily visual diary. All of the illustrations are hand-made, using the simple uni pin (rapidographs). In the end, it was partly digitalized (for the purpose to animate illustrations), but it still keeps the authentic feel of real touch and free expression of hand linked with the irrational, intuition, and pure feelings-based expression.

in attacked files below you can see illustrations from these fairytales:
‘Three Sisters’ (the first illustration)
‘Seven springs, summers, autumns, and six winters’ (the second and the 5th)
‘Bridges’ (the third one)
‘Liu’ (the 4th)