“Nieko rimto” which in Lithuanian means nothing serious is a wonderful publishing house in Lithuania making beautiful books and lovely stationery. And I was contacted to draw few postcards.
Here they are:
They also made some souvenirs like magnets, paper for letters.
And since then my friends and family members sent me lots of pictures of those cards in the bookshops, book fair, etc. Thanks!
Beautiful Espresso tales Vol 3 is in my hands!
See how it looks inside!
And another drawing, based on real buildings.
Some drawings from my sketchbooks I used as inspiration.
This is mostly based on the area near South Melbourne market. I think I should post more photos of buildings which inspire me. And draw them.
Remember this post? So here is how it looks printed! Thanks, Anorak!
Few years ago I had a little job to do – to draw something as a decoration for a children clothing shop in Vilnius Old Town. I can’t find any pictures from then (too lazy now to look for them in my messy computer), but this summer I made few new. This bear somehow became a little tourist attraction, people take pictures with him, if you go to Vilnius, visit Skapo street and take a picture for me and email to luk@luk.lt
And there is a funny story behind this. When I arrived to Lithuania and was walking down that street I saw that the bear is missing it’s ears. They were overpainted while renovating the building or something. I didn’t have the camera with me. I should come at night and paint the ears, I thought.
One day I was going somewhere and I saw a man carrying a small bucket of dark brown paint. This would be the perfect for my bear, I thought. But it was completely another street, quite close, but different. I walked my way.
Some days later I went through the bear again. What a surprise – it had it’s ears back.
And a graffiti “Happy, for the repainting of the ears”.
That made my day. I am not sure if the man with a little paint bucket was the one who repainted it, but I like to believe so.
Update
These are pictures I found online.
One picture of the story was published in the comic anthology Š! sports edition. And there is the rest. I couldn’t decide if I should save it for some print but you all need to know how did the sloth started surfing.
Cover of the book (by Amanda Baeza) – if you see it somewhere – grab a copy 🙂
