Hey!

I am Kamila Stankiewicz – an illustrator. I live in Poland.

I love to: create, draw, paint, animate, learn, and discover new ways to translate ideas, dreams, and visions into visual language. Drawing and creation apps fascinate me; I love testing and creating digital brushes.

I have been working as a full-time illustrator since 2009. I mainly do illustrations for books, comics, and animation for children and young people, but I like new challenges! I hope to be able to illustrate my ideas one day. Unfortunately, there are plenty of them!

What I like most is to create illustrations with a pinch of magic, transporting you to fantastic worlds, or on the contrary to completely ordinary ones, but whose atmosphere makes you want to stay there. 

I consider the most successful works to be those that evoke feelings: of curiosity, amusement, nostalgia, peace, happiness, anxiety and even sometimes fear. Have I mentioned that I love horror movies about ghosts?

Among my greatest inspirations are nature, fairy tales, folklore, culture and art of the late 19th century, landscapes of the Polish countryside, mysterious paths of childhood. Any reason is good to draw some magical creature 🙂

In my work, I combine traditional techniques (watercolor, gouache, acrylics) with digital painting. I am fluent in a wide range of software, including: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Infinite Painter, Rebelle, Affinity Designer, Dragon Bones Pro, Blender, and Nomad Sculpt. I am continuously developing my skills in Motion Graphics and frame-by-frame animation, as well as in 3D, where I am constantly expanding my abilities in modeling, texturing, character creation, and animation.

In illustrations I am attracted to stylization, play of light and color, elegant, flowing lines and arabesques. 

I invite you to find these themes in my portfolio.

Check my digital brushes and coloring pages on Etsy!

You can also find me on Instagram as @st.kamila (st. as a short dorm of the surname, not the saint – yet 😉

If you have your own idea and you think my illustrations will be a good fit for it, feel free to contact me.

kamila@kamilastankiewicz.com