{"id":701,"date":"2018-01-11T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.1.0.0\/WP\/wordpress_ne1\/?p=701"},"modified":"2018-05-06T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:04:24","slug":"nea-likar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/nea-likar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nea Likar"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Nea Likar and I\u2019m an illustrator, graphic designer and make-up artist. I\u2019m currently wrapping up my master\u2019s degree in illustration at ALUO in Ljubljana. I\u2019m active in all of the fields I\u2019ve mentioned, but illustration is the one that\u2019s leading me through all three of them and the one I love the most. It\u2019s my strongest and favourite tool of expressing myself. At the moment I\u2019m designing my own bags brand under the name Sketch, which will soon be released. I\u2019m also working on a lot of different design projects, illustration and graphics and I\u2019m incredibly happy that I\u2019m able to express myself on other\u2019s faces as a make-up artist as well. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you get into illustration?
\n<\/b>Ever since I can remember I\u2019ve been drawing. I\u2019ve always been very receptive to colour and even as a little girl I was able to notice small details that I wanted to draw. Even back then books and other types of print excited me greatly and in high school I discovered a great love for the illustrations I saw in these books, so the decision to study illustration was somehow a logical path for me. It was through my studies and through being part of an exchange in Portugal that I came to discover what kind of illustration I feel close to and what kind of style and segment of it I\u2019d like to follow. I keep educating myself, visiting different courses, reading more on the topic and learning the technique I want to be proficient in. I love supporting the people I look up to and buying their products. I find it\u2019s important that you keep developing your own style depending on the needs of the project you\u2019re working on and that you don\u2019t push your own thoughts and ideas to the side but rather challenge them constantly.<\/p>\n

What separates you from other illustrators?
\n<\/b>I\u2019m mostly creating with a technique where I combine hand-made (analog) and digital illustration. My preferred technique is pencil, which I then combine with digital elements. What I get as a final product is a collage and that helps me to incorporate different messages into my illustrations. I prefer illustrations through which I can communicate as much as possible. I feel like it\u2019s that technique combined with a seemingly adorable illustration with a lot of surrealism and messages that makes my style recognisable.<\/p>\n

What do you want to become in future, your biggest dream?
\n<\/b>In the future I see myself surfing the creative waves in my career as well as life, which is greatly tied with illustration and drawings. My biggest dream is to be able to do this every day and live from it, that my work is needed and appreciated. I\u2019d love to work more on prints on textiles, illustrating books, especially \u2018silent books\u2019 (books without text), which I\u2019ve become obsessed with, and working with creative people. To wrap this year up I\u2019d love to successfully finish the 365 project (posting illustrations every day on my Facebook page: Nea Likar and my Instagram profile: nealikar) and complete my master\u2019s degree which is one of my most creative and refined ones (two silent books).<\/p>\n

Do you have a motto?
\n<\/b>Nobody is you and that is your power. \/\/ I can. I will.<\/p>\n

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Interviewed by Anja Koro\u0161ec ; Photo: Katja \u017dagar; Illustrations: Nea Likar<\/span><\/p>\n