ELIZAVETA SHCHERBINA

A.K.A. LI DERPAG
- GRAPHICS -
- PRINTINGS -
- COMICS-
ARTWORK ‘AINU’
My name is Elizaveta Shcherbina and
I’m huge fan of ethnography. I love to
learn about different small tribes of
our huge world, about their traditions
and mythology. There’s portrait of
woman from ainu tribe which lives on
Japanese islands and on the east of
Russian Federation.

Matherials: watercolor, ink, pen, watercolor paper

Size: 148x210 mm
LINOCUT ‘TALE ABOUT TEA AND CRACKERS’
I was studying at Tomsk State University, one of
the eldest universities in Russia. Tomsk is cultural
state of Siberia, but I had always dreamed about
Scandinavian north. There’s illustration for saami’s
fairytale ‘About Tea and Crackers’. Main plot is
about huge Troll, who made lakes and mountians of
his tea plates and old crackers.

Technique: linocut
Matherials:
printing paint,
Japanese paper
Size: 148x210 mm;
148x70 mm
LINOCUT ‘HUGE FISH’
My education was based on printing graphic art. I was
learned a lot pf different printing techniques, but my
faworite is linocut. I made series of works about trolls in
Scandinavians fairytales. This one is about Norwegiand
beliefs that all the mountians in Norway are spines of
huge sleeping trolls. On this illustration you can see what
can be if someone wakes them up.

Technique: linocut
Matherials:
printing paint,
Japanese paper
Size: 148x210 mm;
148x70 mm:
LINOCUT ‘GIFT FOR SPIRIT’
From the childhood I loved nordic folklore and dreamed to
visit Scandinavia one day. I found a lot of similarities in
Norwegian and Slavic myths and legends and I was really
interested in it all my entire life. Until present days I’m
in this topic and continue to make art about it. Althought
linocut is my favorite printing technique, I love to make art
by different interesting ways.

Technique: linocut
Matherials:
printing paint,
Japanese paper
Size: 148x210 mm;
148x70 mm
MAAHIS, SAUNATONTTU & ANTERO VIPUNEN
Also I like Finnish
folklore and
mythology. I made
series of woodcuts
about Suomi monsters
and creations.

Technique: woodcut
Matherials:
printing paint,
Japanese paper
Size: 65x130 mm
LYTHOGRAPHY ART
Mostly interesting but also difficult printing technique I’ve ever tried. First time I tried it at
university. I made autumn still life and illustration for finnish epos ‘Kalevala’.

Technique: lythography
Matherials:
printing paint,
Paper
Size: 210x210 mm
 CHTHONIC MONSTERS OF NORTH
It was handmade silkscreen for encyclopedia of northern gods
and monsters. Three initial letters for three children of Loki,
Scandinavian god of mischief Loki: Fenrir, Hel and Midgardsorm.
Also I made vignette for several pages of this book using
technique of silkscreen.
Technique: silkscreen
Matherials: printing paint, paper
Size: 148x210 mm
‘TALES OF NAMELESS
BROTHERS’
There’s my diploma work for
university gratuation. Comicbook
with 6 different stories. Stories
are based on European myths and
fairytales and for each story I used
its own artstyle.

Cover was made with linocut technique

 ‘FATHER OF THE BLINDS’ &
‘ABBEY OF DEAD PUFFINS’
There’re some pages as examples of my comics artwork.
I used black pastel in liquid and dry forms, also I used
black pencil for tiny peaces of drawing. What I really love
is constant searching of new techniques and materials.

Matherials: black paster, black oil pencil, paper

FROM NORTH TO EAST: SHAMANS
There’s latest pair of works about traditions
of shamanism in Russia. Russia is a huge
country, contains of a lot of different nations,
big, small or endangered. Many of them have
shamanism traditions, but they are different
also. In this works I wanted to show
diversity and strong beaty of tribes living
in my country. On this work you can see
shaman of Buryatiya Republic.

Matherials: watercolor, colored ink, colored pencils

Size: 60x40 cm
FROM NORTH TO EAST: SHAMANS
This is shaman of northern people which
called saami. They live in Karelia Republic
on the north of Russia. You can meet them
also in Norway, Finland and Sweden. In old
times ancient Russians thought that saami
shamans are the strongest in the world and
also most dangerous.

Matherials: watercolor, colored ink, colored pencils

Size: 60x40 cm