Nickname: ishi Real name: Karolina Gender: girl Location: Białystok, POLAND Contact: ryo@op.pl                             Hello World! My name is Karolina and I live in Poland. I am hobby illustrator with great love for fairytales and cats :) My main goal in drawing is creating works filled with magic, far far from reality. I leave it behind when I draw, there is too much of it in daily life ;) I'm an idealist and a romantic and I often tend to behave rather childish. I often catch myself on day-dreaming? and I tend to spend a lot of time in some imaginary world far away. For 8 hours a day I work as a graphic designer in advertisemen?t company, for the rest of a day I do all sort of things that I like. As I have already mentioned, I am interested it art, especially digital art, but lately I've been also discovering a great world of paints, canvas and brushes :) I make dolls with my sister. Because each of them is different and unique, I like to belive that they are more then just dolls or that at least each has a little bit of a soul. I love to read and to listen to music. I'm addicted to reading fantasy and science-fiction books, these two genres happen to be my favourites, however I also like stories based on true, historical facts. I love my friends and I care about them.               Achievements: 2008- "Digart of the day" on digart.pl. (03.01.2008) 2007- Winner of the Vox Valentine's Day Banner Contest on VOX. (14.02.2007) 2006- "Daily Deviation" on Deviantart.com (27.11.2006)                 My places: 1) Deviantart.com: Painted-ishi 2) Digart.pl: Paintedishi 3) myspace.com Paintedishi 4) Last.fm: Daikirai 5) Visual Dolls: my dolls                 Interests: hand-made things, especially dolls, graphic design, digital art, asian movies and music, friends, portuguese and japanese language, fashion, travelling, Japan, China and South Korea.                           painted-ishi © 2003-2008 ishi. All rights reserved.