A Deeper Look
Lua Lazarovic
Illustrator and designer
I am an illustrator, designer and writer, following my biggest passions and making them the guiding lights of my life.
Social Media
Let's keep in touch on social media. There. I post all my latest drawings and there is something new to see every day!
Online Shops
If you are interested in purchasing my art (as art prints, postcards, apparel etc.) , you can access the following links:
Commissions/Dialogue
Many great ideas have sprung up from inspired dialogue, which I encourage. I can't wait to hear from you, your opinions, views and experiences. Don't hesitate to express your opinion or to contact me at:
Designing.Lua@gmail.com
Interview with an illustrator
To be periodically updated as time flows over and changes my answers.
What is your field and what are your favorite subjects?
I can't say I have settled in with a specific type of illustration yet. At the moment, I am working hard on improving my weaker skills. This is why I started doing a series of 40-day challenges, focused all on the abilities I want to improve: animals, plants and fungi, food... landscape and scenery are soon to follow. I am exploring what I most enjoy drawing and discovering what I am best at. As the overlapping area between the two will be better defined, I will be able to give a definitive answer to this question. But for now, I accept a challenge.
Where do you want your Journey to lead you?
I would like to become an editorial illustrator in the future, working with magazines and bloggers, so together we can design and create a unique image for their brand and for their product. But I think my greatest dream is to illustrate a story. A world full of details and imagination.
What would you like to achieve within the following year?
I would like to turn illustration into a reliable source of income, meaning that I would like to work full-time as a freelance illustrator with enough commissions to afford a healthy lifestyle.
How do you develop your skills as an illustrator?
As mentioned before, by setting myself a 40-day challenge to draw every day on a theme or subject I don't feel very comfortable with. Drawing daily not only helps you to get out of your comfort zone and practice constantly, but it also forces you to deal with a subject at an accelerated pace. This improves your ability to be an expressive painter and to complete a task with a close deadline. I also look up online tutorials to improve my abilities to work and draw with my chosen software, or to draw my subject.
How do you find motivation?
After exploring other career options and realizing how increasingly wretched I felt in a non-creative role, I realized that the key to my happiness lies in drawing and writing - my earliest passions. My motivation comes from my quest for happiness, as I would not see myself doing anything else with my life. This determines me to work hard to achieve and maintain the "illustrator's dream life".
Where do you seek inspiration?
I mostly turn to books, dreams, and other artists' galleries. These are the most accessible sources. I usually see a nice way of using light in a picture, or a dynamic pose, or a good framing. And then, I will learn from that and will want to combine and apply what I've learned to my own, original context. I also think travel and social interactions with interesting, eccentric people can also be a source of inspiration, as they change - ever so slightly - your perception of the world.
What are some of your favorite artists?
I love Charlie Bowater and Loish, and many others too. As a child, though, I was fascinated with Marcel Marlier's works, and this is why I think I am so eager to illustrate books. His dreamy imagery was so carefully designed, so full of detail and so educational in some instances, that I always go back to his drawings when I need to get myself in an optimistically-creative mood.
What are some of your favorite writers and books?
My oldest favorite is the Ender's Game trilogy, which made me love books (I don't care much for the controversies surrounding the author and his beliefs; in short, because if one's personal life would be considered when appreciating one's work, many historic personalities with a difficult character would have been obliterated from history).
I also really enjoy (re)reading the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isaac Asimov, Salman Rushdie, and Luke Rhinehart - to name only a few of my favorite authors.