Alexander Kostenko — the talented Russian illustrator with surprising feeling of details and the absolutely especial style of drawing. Studied as the artist, receiving a speciality the woodcarver. Studied classical drawing, painting and a sculpture. Now working over backgrounds to game. Plans to publish comics and to make on it an animation film.

• 1 – What did your career as a illustrator start with? When were you interested in illustration for the first time?I was a delicate child. When my peers were slogging away at their multiplication tables, I, in my hospital bed, drew pictures from books and comics – really exotic things around those parts. Sweating away at academic drawing and other alike things in college it took to me that drawing and illustrating was my only desire and career. The very first experience with digital processing of my painting and drawing made me run into the nearest shop and buy all clip art CDs with catching covers (that moment was too far from my first Internet experience). On one of those CDs there was a collection of Marvel Publishing comic books covers. The impulse I got from that fresh art was much more intense than that of classic paintings.I tried to make some comic papers. Shown my “experiment” in the Commission Contest, I got my first order. My first order that was paid for.