On the Lake (2019) Painting by Evgeny Potapkin

Since childhood, I love to draw. I studied at an art school and there I realized that most of all I love to draw people, especially people's faces. Then it was time to think about my future profession, and it so happened that my main environment convinced me to go to study for the "male" profession - Engineer! I entered the Automobile and Highway University and studied there for 5 years, practically gave up drawing for these years, got a job in the office as a road infrastructure designer, and after a few months I realized that this is not the path I want to take. Then I began to search for myself, I read a lot of books, watched various videos, thought about what I really want to do. As a result, my friend somehow showed me a video of the process of drawing a portrait in the style of hyperrealism with colored pencils Heather Rooney, it inspired me so much that I immediately ordered the same pencils, and a month later I started drawing my first portraits with colored pencils. I was completely captured, I was drawing all the time that remained after work, and after about a year I developed a course on drawing with colored pencils and began to teach classes in a drawing studio. A year later, I quit my job as an engineer and began to devote myself entirely to creativity. Now I paint large canvases with the faces of people, I try to convey the emotions and energy that is in me, each face is incredibly beautiful and mysterious, my mission is to show the Divine beauty of a person in my paintings, share this beauty with people and inspire them.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1991
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• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists