Masha Karpushina

Masha Karpushina 

Masha is a Moscow born, London raised freelance illustrator.The visual world she creates is dictated by observation of the real and the surreal. She is driven by the power of nature, the beauty within man and beast, traditions of past generations and the essence of love. After taking time out from having her second son she is currently involved in several personal and commercial projects. All images are hand drawn and later reworked in Photoshop.

Masha graduated from LCC (London, UK) with a BA (Hons) in Illustration for Graphic 
Design. In 2006 she entered the noisefestival.com competition where she became Paul Insect's choice for Illustration.

At the age of 30, inspired by her husband and a friend she began to run. So far it has 
dramatically changed her perspective on life for the better.  


Below are some of her illustrations, although most of her illustration are black and 
white, most of her illustrations are drawn from the vast colors of the world around her. 

The different strokes and tones she uses creates and allow us focus on what she wanted us to focus on, in such, from the illustration on the left, we focus on the darkest area first before moving the the body of the female figure than slowly noticing the male figure hugging her. 

It is almost like a collage of different texture created from the tone, you could almost feel the texture from her illustration above both smooth and rough, i could use this technique when illustrating the clothing i am designing, such as the texture of different materials can be drawn and illustrate by this technique.

This illustration above was designed for ALL SAINT. 

Her clients are :

Vodafone, Mercedes, EMI, Armada Skis, All Saints, American Eagle Outfitters, Soho House Magazine, Lascivious, Adventure Ecology, RCMM, Philippe Parreno