We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Ewa Lipińska. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Ewa below.

Ewa, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

I enjoyed drawing from a very young age – I’m no different from other artists here. I mainly drew horses as a child – it was my obsession. Then I studied architectural drawing, thanks to which I got to know the principles of perspective and learned new techniques – ink and watercolor drawing. I have very fond memories of both the teacher and the classes however, I felt that this type of drawing was not meant for me because it did not allow me to express myself. After finding a regular job I returned to drawing, but this time I focused on portraits of friends and snapshots of our then lives. It all faded away because at that time I didn’t believe in the sense of creating which altered when I became pregnant with my first child and rediscovered the world of children’s illustration that inspired me to create again and made impossible to stop. I now like to try new mediums to keep my creative juices flow and play with textures as I finally feel free to make art the way I want.

Ewa, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Yes, hello! I’m Ewa and I’m an illustrator from Poland. I got my first commissions after posting some illustrations on my Instagram profile. These were posters and greeting cards, and later there were also requests for pet portraits and questions about prints of my work. That kind of spread my wings and made me believe in my work which I started to develop in every free moment of time I had. What I enjoy most is creating illustrations for greeting cards, there is something wonderful in the thought of people choosing my work to share with someone close to them. I recently started learning 3d modeling and plan to develop this a bit, ideally by breathing animation into it.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

It seems to me that it is a process of creation itself. I’ve always enjoyed observing my surroundings intently, I think it’s due to a sensitivity I’ve had since childhood, and while it’s been a burden for me most of my life, I now see that it allows me to do what I do and weave those little observations into my art. A very important thing to me is the development as seeing how much progress I made builds my confidence.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

The biggest resource to creativity and support for me is a community of other artist, hence the social media – I started to build such community quite late in my journey. Sharing the creative process and ways to combat creative blocks has helped me many times over. Many of them share their knowledge of making children’s books and their experiences as an illustrator which is a huge support for me and I think it’s a great way to learn new things. I also appreciate Patreon because a lot of artists really put a lot of work and heart into the content they share. On the more technical side – I hugely appreciate the fact that software for creatives is covered by a subscription that is financially accessible – this used to not be the case for me when I was younger, which made learning more difficult.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lipove_studio
• Other: https://lipovestudio.etsy.com/

Image Credits
Lipove Studio