illustration - Petra Stefankova

AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 42 CHOSEN WINNER

20. April 2023 / american-illustration-winners, art, artist, illustration, illustrator, new-york-city, painting, publishing

I was informed by Mark Heflin, the founder of American Illustration, that I am a CHOSEN WINNER in this 42nd edition of the New York competition from about 8000 entries! My work will appear online in the ARCHIVE on the American Illustration website. The jury included art directors from Time Magazine, Vanity Fair or New York Times Magazine and others.

Mark Heflin, zakladateľ súťaže American Illustration v New Yorku, ma informoval, že som sa stala víťazkou 42. ročníku tejto prestížnej akcie spomedzi 8000 diel! Moja práca bude publikovaná online v ARCHÍVE na stránke American Illustration. V porote boli umeleckí riaditelia Time Magazine, Vanity Fair alebo New York Times Magazine a ďalší.

Animal World in a Playful Line

18. April 2023 / art, children, exhibition, illustration, illustrator, kids, Piestany, show

My solo show of illustrations for children Animal World in A Playful Line was held between April 12 and June 9, 2023 at Piešťany Library.

Moja výstava ilustrácií pre deti Zvierací svet hravou linkou sa konala medzi 12. aprílom a 9. júnom 2023 v Piešťanskej mestskej knižnici.

Honorable Mention for Little pixies and colours!

3. September 2022 / animated, animation, art, award, festival, film, illustration, independent-film, short-film

I entered a number of film festivals with our short animated film Little pixies and colours (Farebníčkovia a farby) and I would like to share the great news. We won two Honorable Mentions in the Best Animation category at Eastern Europe Film Festival in Romania and Kino Ottawa in Canada. The short will be shown also at the Royal Society of Arts in London during the Film Night on the 6th of October 2022. Here is a link to the English version of the film on Youtube.

Prihlásila som náš krátky animák Farebníčkovia a farby (Little pixies and colours) na niekoľko filmových festivalov a mám skvelé správy. Vyhrali sme dva krát Čestné uznanie v kategórii Najlepšia Animácia na Východoeurópskom filmovom festivale v Rumunsku a na Kino Ottawa v Kanade. Film bude tiež premietaný v Kráľovskej spoločnosti umení v Londýne počas Filmovej noci, 6. októbra 2022. Tu je link na anglickú verziu filmu na Youtube.

Social illustrated design

3. October 2020 / activism, art, design, illustrated-design, illustration, poster, social, social-design

I created several social illustrated designs for posters about illiteracy, inequality and intolerance as well as issues of the disabled. I would like to bring these topics to your attention using aesthetics, emotion and hierarchy of typographic and visual elements.

The initiative is based on personal experience with disability in my family. My father was blind for about 20 years because of glaucoma. Despite that, he was very accomplished at work. He felt ashamed of ending up sight-impaired, did not want people to notice his disability and he tried to hide this disadvantage. I had a strong emotional connection with him. He struggled through life a lot for his inability to see. He slowly developed other senses a bit stronger such as his hearing and touching.

This collection of posters represent important themes we should not be ignorant of.

Vytvorila som niekoľko sociálnych ilustrovaných dizajnov pre plagáty o negramotnosti, nerovnosti a netolerancii ako aj o problémoch zdravotne znevýhodnených ľudí. Chcem priniesť tieto témy do vašej pozornosti s použitím estetiky, emócií a hierarchie typografických a vizuálnych elementov.

Táto iniciatíva je založená na osobnej skúsenosti so zdravotným znevýhodnením v mojej rodine. Môj otec bol nevidiaci približne 20 rokov kvôli glaukomu. Napriek tomu, bol veľmi pracovne úspešný. Cítil sa zahanbený, že stratil zrak, nechcel, aby si to ľudia všimli a pokúšal sa svoje znevýhodnenie skrývať. Mala som s ním veľmi silné emocionálne spojenie. Počas života sa pre svoju neschopnosť vidieť veľmi trápil. Postupne si vyvinul silnejšie iné zmysly ako sluch a hmat.

Táto kolekcia plagátov reprezentuje dôležité témy, ktoré by sme nemali ignorovať.

Book ‘Don’t take my dreams from me’

25. July 2020 / art, artist, book, illustration, malba, painting, poetry, publishing, umenie

I self-published a new book of poetry and paintings, that is written by my mother Aurelia Stefankova and it is illustrated by me. We united to express moments and adventures of life as well as images of love in two independent ways – in visuals and in writing. The book is published in two languages, in the Slovak and English language. You can buy it from my store.

Publikovala som novú knihu poézie a malieb, ktorú napísala moja mama Aurélia Štefanková a ja som ju ilustrovala. Spojili sme sa, aby sme vyjadrili momenty a dobrodružstvá života ako aj obrazy lásky dvomi nezávislými spôsobmi – vo vizuáloch a v básni. Kniha je publikovaná v dvoch jazykoch, v slovenčine a v angličtine. Knihu si môžete zakúpiť z môjho e-shopu.

Draw me something for Anorak magazine

9. July 2020 / anorak, anorakmagazine, art, artist, children, editorial, illustration, illustrator, magazine, united-kingdom

Through a private online communication channel of Anorak, the kids’ magazine from the UK, a number of illustrators from around the world were asked to produce specific illustrations. They had to draw ideas that came from the magazine children’s contributors. I was one of the illustrators, who took part in this challenge. My illustration was based on the idea of the 11-year old boy Alfie who wanted me to draw an axolotl with a fez and a bow tie.

Cez privátny online komunikačný kanál Anoraku, detského časopisu v Anglicku, boli oslovení viacerí ilustrátori zo sveta, aby vytvorili špecifické ilustrácie. Mali nakresliť nápady, ktoré vymysleli detskí prispievatelia do časopisu. Ja som bola tiež jedna z ilustrátorov, ktorí sa zúčastnili tejto výzvy. Moja ilustrácia je založená na nápade 11 ročného chlapca Alfieho, ktorý chcel, aby som nakreslila axolotla s tureckou čiapkou a motýlikom.

Parkylife won Bronze and Silver Award

17. May 2020 / agency, awards, charity, competition, havaslynx, health, illustration, prize, unitedkingdom

The UK based agency Havas Lynx won two awards for Parkylife project at the Drum Roses Awards 2020 last week! They were awarded Silver and Bronze in Sports/Health and Illustration/Animation categories. I provided an illustration for the project thanks to Eallin Animation production company. More information on the awards web site. Anglická agentúra Havas Lynx vyhrala dve ceny za projekt Parkylife v Drum Roses Awards 2020 minulý týždeň. Získali striebornú a bronzovú cenu v kategóriách Šport/Zdravie a Ilustrácia/Animácia. Poskytla som ilustráciu do projektu vďaka produkčnej firme Eallin. Viac informácií je na stránke súťaže.

Little pixies and colours – animated poetry (Farebníčkovia a farby – animovaná báseň)

16. May 2020 / animacia, animatedshort, animation, children, film, illustration, shortfilm

Together with poet Aurelia Štefanková, I created a short kids’ animation about little pixies in the world of colours in the Slovak language (Farebníčkovia a farby).

Credits: Director / Writer: Petra Štefanková, Writer / Narrator: Aurélia Štefanková, Designer / Animator: Petra Štefanková.

Spolu s poetkou Auréliou Štefankovou som vytvorila tento krátky detský animovaný filmík k básni o Farebníčkoch vo svete farieb v slovenskom jazyku.

Credits: Režisér / Námet: Petra Štefanková, Text / Rozprávač: Aurélia Štefanková, Dizajnér / Animácia: Petra Štefanková.

New experimental illustrations

2. April 2020 / art, drawing, illustration, people, portrait

I decided to use my marker drawings as the basis for digital colouring on iPad Pro using Artstudio Pro app. As for the markers, I used Molotow black liners and the Aqua Color brushes. It surprised me, the results are really nice. For now, I created only drawings of unreal people’s faces (fictional portraits). In the future, I will be thinking about more complex ideas using this style too. So it could eventually match some of your briefs, I hope.

Rozhodla som sa použiť moje kresby fixkami ako základ pre digitálne kolorovanie na iPade Pro a aplikácie Artstudio Pro. Použila som black linery a Aqua Color brushe od firmy Molotow. Výsledok ma prekvapil, vyzerá to fajn. Zatiaľ som vytvorila len kresby nereálnych ľudských tvárí (fiktívne portréty). V budúcnosti budem uvažovať o komplexnejších nápadoch v tomto štýle. Snáď sa vám to bude hodiť k nejakým zadaniam.

Collecting Japanese Art Awards

17. February 2020 / awards, computerart, digitalart, diplomas, illustration, Japan, trophy

This post is a little flashback to the past when I was collecting awards and diplomas from the Japanese organisations for my computer graphics and illustrations. I wanted to find out more information on it for some special professional occasions. I discovered, that two diplomas I received from Toray DCA, were signed by the most prominent digital artist in Japan, Yoichiro Kawaguchi. A number of times he presented his work at the SIGGRAPH conferences in the US. His work in robotics was also mentioned in a video on the web site of the BBC. The other award and trophy I received were from Hirosaki City mayor. He granted it to me during the group exhibition of DIDO – Digital Discovery Illustrators Organisation. DIDO was founded by the illustrator and teacher Marty M. Ito.

Tento príspevok je krátkym návratom do minulosti, keď som zbierala ocenenia a diplomy od japonských organizácií za počítačovú grafiku a ilustrácie. Chcela som zistiť o tom viac informácií kvôli aktuálnym profesionálnym príležitostiam. A tak som objavila, že dva diplomy, ktoré som dostala v súťaži Toray DCA boli podpísané najprominentnejším digitálnym umelcom v Japonsku, Yoichirom Kawaguchim. Predstavil sa niekoľko krát na prestížnych amerických konferenciách SIGGRAPH. Jeho práca v robotike bola tiež spomenutá vo videu na stránkach britskej televízie BBC. Ďalšiu cenu a trofej som získala od starostu mesta Hirosaki, ktorá bola udelená pri príležitosti kolektívnej výstavy s DIDO – Digital Illustrators Discovery Organisation. DIDO založil ilustrátor a učiteľ Marty M. Ito.