Kasteva Dariya

Biography

Born in 1998 in Moscow.
I graduated from the Bachelor's degree (2020) and Master's degree (2022) from the Institute of Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical University with honors.

Once I watched “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson”, and I had a strong desire to portray Vasily Livanov and not just any way, but well, “full-blooded”. It was then that I realized that I didn’t know how to “approach” a person, where to start, or how to act. I was overcome by an unpleasant feeling of helplessness. And then I decided to learn how to draw portraits. I found excellent courses at the online school “13.SCHOOL”, the author of which I had been following for a long time on social networks. Polina Ishkhanova is an excellent teacher and portrait painter. Since April 2022, I began to immerse myself in the study of portrait graphics.

Successfully completed the courses “Portrait in Pencil 2.0”, “Portrait in Charcoal”, “Portrait PRO” at Polina Ishkhanova’s online school “13.SCHOOL”, 2022.

I paint portraits with pencil and charcoal in the direction of "realism".