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Award-winning key artwork for the British Library’s flagship exhibition Fantasy: Realms of Imagination. Drawn entirely by hand at A1 scale with a dip pen, the image weaves the exhibition’s four realms—Fairy Tales & Folklore, Worlds & Portals, Epics & Quests, and the Weird & Uncanny—into one dense search-and-find world of literary and mythological references. The campaign artwork appeared across the exhibition, book cover, outdoor advertising, environmental graphics, projection and merchandise, and received major international illustration recognition in 2024.
Some of the illustrations for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, done for the exhibition "Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark." The exhibition tells the remarkable story of the rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust. Despite the enormous risk, ordinary citizens managed to save nearly 95% of Denmark’s Jewish population.
Art series inspired by the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. Dunhuang was a multicultural hubbub between East and West during the Silk Road trade for hundreds of years. Artistory kindly offered me a unique opportunity to study the mesmerizing paintings of the caves and come up with own interpretations of these timeless dream images.
The watercolors in this project belong to an unfinished series "Gods and Ghosts in Sacred Land" – magic realism works featuring local (Israeli) cities and their babylonian mix of cultures and lifestyles. I am also doing a lot of pencil sketches from local everyday street life and have added some of the highlights from sketchbooks here.
Sample illustrations from my mock 'how-to' book on parenthood called "How to Handle a Child". While all the episodes in the book are true stories and conversations with my three kids, each chapter is illustrated with a relevant scene from my own childhood. The illustrations balance between the child’s perception (magical, unreal, enchanted, yet taken for granted as solid fact of life) and brutal truth (the reality of my childhood was more wild than anything I could invent). The illustrations address the core things that make childhood what is it – the freshness of perception, the agony of growing up, the mischief, and the absence of borderline between the real and the fanciful.
Life in Shanghai: drawings and stories created during Sveta Dorosheva's 2018 three-month Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency in Shanghai. Chinese ink on rice paper, observing the city as a modern Babylon; the experience later became part of her authored book Every Breath In and Out Equals the Mona Lisa.
Art direction, archival research and original illustration for the 12-book series History Through the Eyes of Krokodil Magazine, built from the Soviet satirical magazine archive, 1922–1992.
Illustrations for the The True Adventures of Wolfboy movie, a 2019 American coming-of-age film, directed by Martin Krejčí, written by Olivia Dufault, and starring Jaeden Martell, Chloë Sevigny, John Turturro, Chris Messina, and Eve Hewson.
Evocative illustrations for magazine editorials about famous people that grew up in Baku and share their memories of childhood and youth years, spent in the ardently loved city.
Medieval illuminations and early renaissance emblemata are a huge source of inspriration of mine. In this project I have collected artworks from various books I have illustrated, which have drawn on my deep fascination with the epoch when art spoke in symbols and allegories and could be read like a book, without the help of words.
This project includes artworks from three years of illustrating horoscopes for Baku magazine, Azerbaijan. The images are inspired by the oriental splendor of Persian miniature and ancient sky atlases.
Fantasy cartography and hand-drawn maps for YA and fantasy books: King of Scars, Dark Rise, Tristan Strong, Rise of the Vicious Princess, and House of Dragons.
LOVE is Sveta Dorosheva’s adult mix-and-match artist book, combining erotic illustration and poetry with references to Japanese shunga, warai-e, enpon and ukiyo-e.
This project includes a set of Tarot cards for Halsey's "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom", a card per song. I have also inluded samples from other projects involving Tarot imagery. No, the full Tarot deck with my artwork doesn't exist yet, but yes, I am planning to do that and you here, site subscribers, would be the first to know!
Alchemy style illustrations for print ads of Jefferson's Bourbon, commissioned by JWT New York. This project was shortlisted for World Illustration Awards 2018 in advertising category.
Anne Frank with my illustrations in the "Little People, Big Dreams" series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. "Little People, Big Dreams" is a best-selling, critically acclaimed series of picture books that explore the lives of outstanding people, from artists to scientists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. Anne Frank's was not an easy story to tell to a very young audience. I used the black and white graphic approach, with spot color on the diary. I also inserted an additional narrative motif of birds as symbols of this or that emotion (happiness, serenity, dream, menace, loss.) Though children might not read into all the allusions in the illustrations, picture books are read to them by adults – and they certainly will. I strongly believe that illustrations should elicit comment and inspire conversation beyond what's written in the text, and this was my approach here as well.
Select pen and ink illustrations from a lovely book of poems for children by David Schulzinger "Have You Seen My Pet Dragon?" The topics range anywhere from imaginary friends and impossible inventions to time travel and scary stories in a camping tent.
A genre-defying illustrated book about humans, written from the point of view of fairies. First published in Russia and later by Chronicle Books in English, The Land of Stone Flowers turns human anatomy, money, language, cities, rituals and moods into strange folklore. The book became an international reader success, was translated into multiple languages, and is celebrated for its intricate illustrations, wit, imagination and unusual perspective on ordinary human life.
Commissioned cover and editorial illustration for books, newspapers, music and film, including HarperCollins and the Los Angeles Times.
