Hi!

I'm Kate. I mostly work with traditional media and lean into cartoon-ish styles. My favourite thing is to draw is all kinds of animals. I don't consider myself a professional artist but at least I can hope I'm not that bad in it.

In spare time I'm very slowly working on my first video game - and if I say slowly - it's very, very slow 🤪

My current priority is on languages and my art skills - I love to do life drawing sessions and plein airs. Also I'm working on my storytelling and illustration skills.

From traditional media best results I achieve with water-based markers, graphite, ballpoint pens and similar media. Also I like to play with aquarelle for my quick plein airs or with oils for still life drawings. I am big fan of Ghibli animated films and W.I.T.C.H. comic/animated series in terms of favourite art styles.

I tend to get interest in various fields and dig deep enough to have very wide range of random facts - from mechanical engineering to biology, from arts and crafts to Unix systems, from books and board games to history and folklore.

You can speak to me in English, Russian, Belarusian, Ukranian, Polish - I understand them all very well - but for some I didn't have practice in ages and may have troubles speaking.

Topics I can mentor:

1. IT-related:
   1. self-hosting (and not only self) websites (as example, portfolio);
   2. cybersecurity;
   3. building IT infrastructure for your company;
   4. server-based applications;
2. Art-related:
   1. mixed media sketching (mainly graphite/ballpoint pen + waterbased markers);
   2. drawing animals - building your animal characters from scratch, how to use references, form simplification, stylizing;
   3. travel vlogs through sketchbook notes and scribbles;
   4. quick live figure drawing - how to approach, where to put attention on, how to improve; I focus mainly on short-term poses - from 3 to 15 minutes per each.