Fantastika is coming to a close, last day today! As a send-off, I muse a little on the beginnings of it all, and the very first photoshop thing. www.artofrostov.com/anime-mage-j...
Aleksander Rostov
@rostovjanka.bsky.social
Artist. Art director of Disco Elysium. https://www.artofrostov.com/
Musings on sketchbooks, and goobers, and sketchbook goobers. (Videos of sketchbook goobers being born inside) www.artofrostov.com/digital-sket...
The print shop is open for one more week! In the meanwhile I have been writing bits and pieces of lore and background context for the various works in FANTASTIKA, up on the website. What's up with the Winged Hussars? Read: www.artofrostov.com/fantastika-w...
Rostov Prints "FANTASTIKA" - June 23 - Tell your friends!
It was Christmas morning and I drew this and then I had to rush to family
Diligence in proof of face, proof of hand (barely;) compositional structure and colour harmonies. The rest can be whatever.
Come! Take a walk through the doomed commercial area, the birthing house of Disco Elysium, where we toiled as its midwives and doulas for five or so years. youtu.be/yrVWe_ZCAko
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part Two: Building Elysium
YouTube video by /noclip
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A little over a year ago Danny O'Dwyer @noclipvideo.bsky.social visited Tallinn and we spoke a little about the making of Disco Elysium. He's put together a kind of time machine (in five parts) to let you visit that time and place. youtu.be/eH6mUTHZ5C4
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
YouTube video by /noclip
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A composition. Suprematist gymnastics with saber. The circle is both the swing of the arm, spotlight and maybe like the moon or something.
Morning apartment etude with plant, chair and Zog
Selection of drawings from the Drink & Draw marathon life drawing session. I'm happy to see the long rest hasn't completely eroded the ability to draw, but it also takes a long time to fire up the machine that makes art again. By the 6th hour some kind of confidence was back in the wrist again.
