I will be mute as a fish

"You may not know who we are, but we know who you are!" - "I won't tell anybody; I'll be mute as a fish." The words on the truck say: "Beluga's caviar". The Moscow News story by Sara Buzadzhi.

Leaders column is in the news today

Our Tandemocracy cartoon was featured in today's Hire an Illustrator newsletter. Great thanks and best wishes to Darren & Jane Di Lieto!!

Three people carrying a coffin

A sketch from some movie I was watching.

Leaders column for The Moscow News

A new "Tandemocracy" column has just started at the newspaper where I draw cartoons. In it, our russian leaders, who are obligatory featured in every cartoon riding a tandem bike, are never tired of new amazing adventures. Such as, for instance, putting out forest fires, finding bits of ancient cultures on the sea bed, testing new cars and submarines and much more. Sparkling humorous ideas are supplied by Tim Wall, the visual interpretation is by your humble servant. Here's some of the recent ones:

London houses and sketches from Moscow trip

Moscow, Pushkinskaya square

Church in Dubrovitsi near Podolsk, Moscow region:

People in transport

Here's a batch of sketches I made while on a train or in the underground, during my trip in Russia:

A sketch of bus in London:

Tandemocracy: Mermaid

Cartoon for weekly Tandemocracy column, The Moscow News. Authors: Tim Wall, Zhenia Vasiliev

Sketches from St.Petersburg

Here's some sketches from my travels around St.Petersburg and Moscow. Will take several posts, I think. Here's the beginning:

Isaakievsky temple from a roof of a neigbouring building, a very quick sketch:

A woman selling corn on the street:

Church in Kolomna, a place in St.Petersburg. The point that I was sketching from is remarkable for the number of bridges you can see from it (although I wasn't doing a sketch of bridges). It's a kind of crossroad of channels and you see nine bridges from here.

A sketch of a table in a place called "Pub 9"

Three sketches from a place called "Tokyo cafe":

Boys of Stalingrad

Soviet soldiers are welcomed by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain. For the Moscow News article by Mark Teeter.

Singing with Bob Dylan

Cartoon for The Moscow News, for the story by Mark Teeter.

Airport taxi driver

For the Moscow News article by Olaf Koens.

A Rain of Different Colours

Illustration that appeared in August issue of Zhenia’s Useful Desk Calendars.

Some sketchbook sketches

Wanted to post those for a long time, just some random drawings, probably based on films I saw:

RCA final show

Although it's a bit late, but here's the photos from the RCA show we've been to in beginning of the month. Not a lot of illustrators this year - I counted three, I think - but their work was brilliant. Unfortunately I managed to find the name of only one of them (Matthew Dale).

New set of calendars is posted out!

Zhenia’s Desk Calendars are designed to turn such a routine thing as keeping an agenda into a joyful and creative activity.
For almost a year now, Zhenia issues a new set once every two months and creates original artwork to go on each side of it. The theme for August and September ones was "THE RAIN OF DIFFERENT COLOURS"
If for some reason you are not receiving your calendar, or If the calendar arrived damaged or the month/art was misplaced, or you want to advice improvement or suggest an idea for next month’s calendar, or If you simply would like to say “hi,we need some illustrations done,” do not hesitate to give Zhenia a notice on his email: inbox@evasilev.com