Ilya Shkipin (1989 - Saint-Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian-American Illustrator and Fine Artist, currently residing in the Bay Area. He studied illustration in Academy of Art in San-Francisco (2008-2012). Over the years his style changed completely from illustrative work to grotesque and surreal, expressionism and abstraction, incorporating influences of contemporary illustration and fine art. He explores the transformation of shapes, surreal imagery and blind line work. The technique varies from digital illustration to traditional medias, such as watercolor, ink, graphite, oils, mixed media.