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 fantasy and sci-fi illustrations to grotesque and surreal, expressionism and abstraction, incorporating influences of contemporary illustration and fine art. I still do commissions in the style of Magic of the Gathering. My portfolio for that style can be found here http://magicaman.daportfolio.com/ In my original and editorial work I explore 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.