Review:
This book collects the pixel art of Waneella (Valeriya Sanchilo), a Russian artist who started posting her art on Tumblr starting in 2013. There's a foreword by Ikumi Nakamura and further text by Sanchilo herself.
Sanchilo discusses growing up in Russia, her artistic influences, her life as an art student trying to find her style and figure out her future path, and more. There are also some "process" pages for several of her artworks, in which she talks about how she went from her initial sketches, to figuring out the layout and color scheme, to completing the work.
The "process" pages don't include quite as much detail as I might have liked. Also, there were several pieces of artwork that I wish had been given more than a three or four inches of space. That said, Waneella's artwork was lovely, and there were still a decent number of pieces that got full pages devoted to them. When she talked about having her father create background music for her YouTube videos, I ended up looking her stuff up online. Much more of it was animated than I expected, and the animations affect where viewers' eyes are drawn - one thing that, unfortunately, the book couldn't really get across very well.
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