This year begins with fantastic Design of the Week award by iStockphoto. I am very, very positive surprised and honoured by this recognition! Thank you.

I want also send big hugs for photographer Katja de Bruijn – Govorushchenko from Netherlands. She is incredible, absolutely talented person with great portfolio. I used her photos for Winter Espionage illustration (image available here) as a self promotion in UCE Magazine – Fashion, Beauty, Design and Culture.


Categories: Illustration, Other


7 Responses so far.


  1. Xavier says:

    Congrats mate!
    this illustration is really cool, one of your best for me.

  2. Nathan says:

    Congrats on the award. Love the design! Have you ever done any tutorials? I’d really love to see the process behind your work.

  3. valp says:

    thx Xavier! It’s one of my favs too, no doubt! :)

    Nathan – thx for congrats. I wrote one tutorial for french edition of .PSD Photoshop magazine (blog post here -> http://www.psdmag.org/prt/view/actualites/issue/882.html). Anyway this tutorial is not available online (as far as I know).

  4. mari says:

    Fantastic work and congratulations on the spotlight!

  5. valp says:

    Thanks a lot Mari!

  6. Che ~ chemc says:

    As always nice work bro… HUGE congrats on yet another design of the week.

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