Video: "Risovashi": a magical reality from the illustrator Marina Fandeeva
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For some, an accident can serve as a reason for despondency and endless depression, and for someone it can be a reason to rethink their whole life. For Russian illustrator Marina Fandeeva, a severe trauma became the starting point for her new career. During her recovery, she learned to draw almost from scratch, and now work brings her real satisfaction and joy.
As Marina herself says, she realized that she had chosen the wrong profession for herself right after university, where she studied to be a psychologist, but she was afraid to leave her unloved job. However, one day a misfortune happened to the girl - she unsuccessfully jumped with a parachute and received serious injuries, which severely limited her movement for six months. ", - says Marina, -."
Today Marina has been working as an illustrator for over four years, creating digital images. And a year and a half ago, the girl also started in your Instagram her own project called "Risovashi": Marina draws fabulous elements to the photographs sent by the users of the application, turning ordinary photographs into a magical world, and accompanies these drawings with small fairy tales or sketches from life.
Today, Marina Fandeeva's Instagram has almost 12,000 subscribers, and more than 2,500 photos are marked with a special hashtag #wantrisovash, which people use when they want their photo to be included in Marina's project.
The original of the last photo belongs to the photographer Dina Belenko, about whose work we have already written more than once, in particular, her work can be seen in our review " Cookies, coffee and a lot of sugar: still lifes with sweets and coffee from a photographer from Russia."
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