Comments on: Lady Zakharova and Folker Krause

By: Koldo Barroso

Koldo Barroso — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:01:52 +0000

Thanks Yelena! My typo thing made Naomi & I laugh so hard!

You know? There’s really nothing I expect or want to hear from you, I just hope to share my world with you and if I can make your lifes just a litter happier and better then that would be the most! But I really accept anything you can say if comes from your heart, just because I really don’t consider myself ‘the owner’ of the characters, so it’s logical that different people have their own preferences for one or another…

F. Krause and his magic shows will definitely show up more here!

By: Yelena

Yelena — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:51:45 +0000

Koldo, the page title says “Lazy Zakharova” – that’s not right and gives me inappropriate giggles.

By: Yelena

Yelena — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:49:25 +0000

Wonderful illustration. I love it even more in color – very eery, in a good way. This is probably not what you want to hear, but between the two people in the illustration, Folker Krause has my undivided attention. He looks like a dead and alive at the same time, with everything that belonging to both realms at once implies. That, and I am not quite fascinated with Raisa and her story.

By: Koldo Barroso

Koldo Barroso — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:32:11 +0000

You may think that because I did this pieces of work I may feel more distant but, to be honest, I feel just the same as you do about Zakharova and other characters. Sometimes it’s really painful for me to think about them… I really like what you said about her, Erin.

I’m sure there will be more to come about her story since she has been so popular from the first time I talked about her in this blog, a few months ago.

By: Erin Hammill

Erin Hammill — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:57:46 +0000

Lady Zakharova’s misfortunes and pain in her life will lead her down destiny’s path….her events of her life will mold her into who she is to become. That’s true for all of us…through the pain we can overcome….and I want to know more about Lady Zakharova. Will she prevail? When we hear of stories like this it makes us think and feel emotions. The amount of detail you put into your art is incredible and add this to your amazing story telling and it becomes spellbinding.

By: Nadiiaevans

Nadiiaevans — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:30:12 +0000

Koldo, you rock!
I do`t remember being tortured

By: Koldo Barroso

Koldo Barroso — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:43:12 +0000

How nice to have you here, Nadia! And you’re a gifted doll maker too!

Maybe you are a descendent of Raisa Zakharova… and you should be really proud because she was such an intelligent, brave and pioneering woman in her time! This is really, really intriguing…

By: Koldo Barroso

Koldo Barroso — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:03:27 +0000

You’d be surprised, Jesse, I’m a big fan of some of Tim Burton’s works but I was not really influenced for this particularly work. When I did this, I remember being specially influenced by fashion photography and vintage portraits. I look a lot to this kind of stuff so for reasons that I can’t tell there’s always some images that get imprinted somewhere in the back of my mind and then they come out.

For Folker, I was also inspired by photographs of old bentriloquists. When I was 4, my godfather had a bentriloquist dummy and he would play with him and gave me the chills! Ever since, I’ve been always fascinated about them and Zakharova was like taking a step further for the creepy dummy thing…

By: Nadiiaevans

Nadiiaevans — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:33:01 +0000

This girl, Zakharova… Well,it is very personal for me. I was born in Ukraine and had some eye surgery, heh-heh.
There is more.. Occultism was my dad`s hobby. Hi escape from this world when he was 45yar old, but I still feel him staring at buck, br-r-roh-h..

Masterpiece drawing, Koldo!

By: dollseye

dollseye — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:49:34 +0000

The hands are totally my favourite part of Lady Zakharova, I would like her torturers to ship them to me please

Would I be stating the obvious if I noted a strong Tim Burton influence in Lady Zakharova?

After the hands, Folker Krause is for me the most enjoyable part of the image, I love his spindly, birdlike appearance.