Siberian Carpenter of German Extraction
At the beginning of World War II Stalin exiled thousands of ethnic German families living in the European areas of the USSR to
Aging Party Girl
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Young Man with Pendant
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Bashkir Man in Brown Ink
Perfecting my method of drawing portraits by smudging lines of ink with my hand. I called it “a poor man’s airbrus
Man with Cat Eyes
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Cat Face
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Early Man
He was just another hospital patient, but his demeanor contained so much primal force and resolve that it was easy to imagine
Man with Gioconda Eyes
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Girl with Shaved Head
There was a girl whose head was shaved because she had lice. To channel the eerie first impression of her I had to draw her ey
Happy Devil
He seemed to always expect you to say something hilarious and was ready to laugh even if you didn’t meant to be funny, a
Portrait of a Hunt
He comes from the indigenous Western Siberian tribe of hunters, fishermen, and reindeer herders, whose official English spelli
Chechen Magomed
A Chechen man named Magomet. He looked fearsome but was rather timid and worked as a truck driver. Share this... Facebook Twit
Chechen Magomed, Brown Ink
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Chechen Magomed, Sketch
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Man in White Shirt
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Man Reading in Sunlight
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Portrait in Yellow
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Mustachio Man
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The Neck Guy, Take Two
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Man with Athletic Neck
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Childless Lady Knits Baby Shoes for Strangers
This aging childless alcoholic woman in Siberia had spent her youth partying and now she was knitting baby shoes for other peo
Woman of Many Ethnicities – Fragment
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Woman of Many Ethnicities
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Two-Colored Ink Portrait of Pavka
I drew him in the style of an early Soviet poster because looked like an earnest, selfless, ascetic, and all-around positive s
Siberian Psycho
This was by no means my best drawing, but just an experiment of what I could accomplish with the limited available materials,
The Renaissance Man
Hailing from the Caucasus, this young man looked like one of Michelangelo’s models. So I also styled it like a Renaissan
Oil Rig Worker in Siberia
Not my best drawing, but he did have a peculiar face… And a weird neck that looked like three Adam’s apples stacke
A Sad Boy
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Old Man with a Blank Stare
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Tatar Patient Reading in Bed
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Tatar Man – Experimental Portrait
This was an experiment in applying techniques I had learned in Tumen: smudging the ink lines sideways with one stroke of the l
Ukrainian Laborer in Siberia
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Ukrainian Worker in Siberia
In the 1979-80s the Soviet government encouraged workers to move to the Western Siberia, by paying them double and sometimes t
Oil Rig Worker
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Young Roman
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