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The Designer
Olechka is an American designer; her hometown is Redmond, United States. She joined Redbubble when she was 24, in January 2008. She has been drawing since she was 5. Olechka has no formal training and is a self-taught artist. Until 2 yeas ago, all her work was traditional, mostly graphite pencil on paper and lots of portraiture. However recently she got into photoshop and digital art, as well as t-shirt design. Olechka studied in the University of Washington; she just graduated in June, so now she is working as a pharmacist for a local company called Bartell Drug.

Type of Work
Olechka’s work is mostly in the form of T-shirts and Artworks. Her type of works include sketches, drawings and digital art (photoshop). She uses a range of materials such as, pencils, acrylics, pen, pastels, wacom pad, watercolour pencils, graphite pencil and more. Olechka’s can be realistic, cartoon, traditional and photorealism. She does a range of subject matters, including animals such as cats, dogs, wolves and hummingbirds. Also famous people, Angelina Jolie, House (Hugh Laurie), Rachel McAdams, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba and Eliza Dushku. Others include people she knows, skulls, 8 balls and other odd objects. Olechka combines digital art with her sketches to make it unique and original. Photoshop is frequently used to add to her drawings and give them colour and a gradient effect. Olechka’s work is vibrant, unique, interesting and amazing. Its awesomeeee!!

What makes it Appealing
Many of Olechka’s works appear to be appealing because of the detail and personality she puts into her artworks and designs. There are numerous designs that are visually appealing in relations to the lines, depth, contrast and shape. Her works also have meaning, for example Unique, the message is saying that imperfections are beautiful. Olechka also has a wide range of subjects matter, listed above. The range makes her work appealing because it’s not the same or similar design each time.

Personally I love her sketches that most, especially the sketch of the woman appearing in Feel the Rush and Lady. I love the colours she uses and how they fade into one another. Other works that she has done include Move! and ROOTS. Her drawings make the audience feel certain emotions and change their mood. For example the positioning and body language in Feel the Rush is so vibrant and fresh. It gives me great inspiration and motivation. I recommend this designer to everybody. She has some great stuff ☺

Feel the Rush – Olechka
http://www.redbubble.com/people/olechka/t-shirt...

Feel the Rush by Olechka is a vibrant sketch of a woman in a stimulating pose. The drawing is of the side of the women’s face to her torso. Her posture is straight with her head thrown back, her face is pointing up towards the sky. She has her eyes closed and has a neutral expression on her face. Her is somewhat pined up with wavy bits falling out. She is wearing a necklace and some sort of top, we can’t tell if it is long sleeve or short because she has white material wrapped around her from the shoulder down and under the bust. It is obvious the woman is slim as her jaw line and collarbones are visible.

The original sketch of this it is just black and white, although Olechka has used Photoshop to give it a gradient effect. At the top of the hair it fades from a hot pink into a purple, then into a midnight blue with a few strokes of a turquoise green. In Feel the Rush there is heaps of detail and shading which makes it so appealing and successful. There is use of line, colour, direction, texture and value all from the elements of design. Also from the principles of design she has included, gradation, contrast, harmony, unity and dominance. By using as many elements and principles as you can enables a effective design. Overall I think that Olechka’s designs are stunning, especially Feel the Rush, its gorgeous, check it out!