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Julia Alekseyeva:
First year Harvard Grad Student in Comparative Literature. Freelance illustrator. Film enthusiast.
This is my attempt to draw and upload at least one sketch/doodle/drawing/comic/cartoon/inkblot a day. Just kidding about the inkblot part.

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For a series of drawings I did for a friend’s party: coloring book versions of women in history!

For a series of drawings I did for a friend’s party: coloring book versions of women in history!


YOU GUYS I entered the  Eustace Tilley New Yorker contest! Here’s my entry. I waited until now  to show you the completed drawing because I was worried about copyright  infringement.
Wish me luck!

YOU GUYS I entered the Eustace Tilley New Yorker contest! Here’s my entry. I waited until now to show you the completed drawing because I was worried about copyright infringement.

Wish me luck!

Part 4 out of 4, collaboration with Tara Riley
“Starlet”

Part 4 out of 4, collaboration with Tara Riley

“Starlet”

part 3/4, collaboration with Tara Riley
“twister”

part 3/4, collaboration with Tara Riley

“twister”

part 2/4, collaboration with Tara Riley
“Bowler”

part 2/4, collaboration with Tara Riley

“Bowler”

Finally uploading some long-overdue art! This is one out of four pieces done as an Exquisite Corpse-themed project with Tara Riley, and was shown at Chicago’s “Excquisite Corpse” show, curated by Jenny Lam, earlier this fall.
Title: “Doo-wop”

Finally uploading some long-overdue art! This is one out of four pieces done as an Exquisite Corpse-themed project with Tara Riley, and was shown at Chicago’s “Excquisite Corpse” show, curated by Jenny Lam, earlier this fall.

Title: “Doo-wop”

Fedora study: Humphrey Bogart

Fedora study: Humphrey Bogart

self-portrait, 2009

self-portrait, 2009

Self-portrait, 2009

Self-portrait, 2009

great-grandmother

great-grandmother

mother

mother

I think this was drawn the last time I ever saw my great-grandmother…

I think this was drawn the last time I ever saw my great-grandmother…