Look closer | Portfolio
Illustration, comics, visual storytelling
Fact, Feeling and Fiction.
Research, observation and imagination are not separate worlds in my work. They overlap — and that is where the image begins.The visual world
Different subjects, one way of seeing.
Every project in my portfolio begins with a question: what is it that I want to show, and why does it matter?
My works may explore different subjects — nature, science, people, or imagined worlds — but they are connected by the same intention: to look closer, find meaning, and turn that discovery into an image.For me, illustration is not only about how something looks. It is a way of thinking, observing and asking questions. Each project is an attempt to find the right visual language for an idea, a feeling, or a story that wants to be seen.
My work is connected not by one style, but by a way of seeing.
The way i work.
I start with attention. A detail, a question, a strange fact, a gesture. Then I look for the image that can hold it.Not every image starts with a clear answer. Sometimes the question is the structure.
Nature. Curiosity. People. Strange encounters.
Trees know, In search of a swallow, Please, Science
Four projects, one recurring interest: looking at familiar things from an unfamiliar angle.
What if nature was watching us?
A graphic series about contemplation in gardens, told from above — through the eyes of trees.
A quiet shift in perspective.
Plants are not decoration here. They are characters, witnesses and a way of seeing.
Trees know
THE SHIFT
From landscape as background to landscape as narrator.
Trees know
Curiosity needs a journey.
A young scientist searches for swallows and for new discoveries.
The landscape carries the story as much as the character does.
In search of a swallow
THE ENGINE
Search —> Observation —> Discovery
In search of a swallow
Can an artwork look back at you?
A large-format illustration about people trying to get closer to artworks.
What happens when people want to get closer to an artwork and when the artwork seems to notice them back? A watercolour world somewhere between human and statue.
Please
THE TENSION
Viewer & artwork. Human & object. Reality & imagination.Make the method feel alive.
Non-fiction about the scientific method, accompanied by plants, trees and curious researchers.
Information becomes easier to enter when it has rhythm, characters and a visual world.
Science
THE BALANCE
Information + character + visual rhythmWHO IS THIS FOR?
I want to work with people who have something worth showing.Editorial projects, cultural institutions, publishers, scientists, artists and creative teams — especially those looking for a visual language that can make an idea more curious, human and aliveI am interested in collaborations where there is something to explore, not just something to illustrate.If the brief has a question, I can help turn it into a visual world. Together, we can give the idea a world of its own.
Email: yafa.s@mail.ruTG: @s2wloss
