Cat comics Lingvistov, or How Lily of the Valley Akhmetzyanova became an illustrator

Russian artist Lily Akhmetzyanova, known under the creative pseudonym Lingvistov, cheerfully and truthfully describes everyday life with fluffy pets. In her funny illustrations, every cat owner gets to know themselves and the situations that happen on every day.

Lily of the Valley Akhmetzyanova aka Lingvistov lives in Naberezhnye Chelny. By training, she is a linguist, not an illustrator or artist. Lily of the Valley draws all the pictures herself, although she does not have a specialized art education. Rarely does anyone manage to create a successful business at the first attempt, which is based on the usual love of cats and passion for drawing, or vice versa. However, with Lingvistov, everything turned out exactly like this.

In 2014, Lily of the Valley graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University (NGLU) and decided to open her own business together with a classmate: online language courses. This is how the Lingvistov school appeared.

Without thinking twice, the girls decided to develop in this direction and soon opened an online store. We decided not to change the name. By the way, the language school still exists, and Lily of the Valley even manages to teach classes in it.

To date, Lingvistov is already a fully successful financial project. The profit from the comics covers expenses, allows Lily of the Valley to support her family and gradually expand. The site sells postcards, notebooks, calendars, bookmarks for books and other paper products with images of all kinds of cats and their owners.

Before the" cat " project, Lily of the Valley created illustrations for foreign books. First, she drew by hand, and then transferred the resulting image to the computer. Now she creates immediately in a digital version. The girl takes ideas for drawings out of her head.