Natalya Glushenkova
Concept Artist at Cold Symmetry
Artstation
@neogen →
In 28 days, you really manage to understand what interests you, what techniques you
follow, and what you're passionate about. I finally understood how to approach large-scale projects – that
whole elephant one piece at a time, step by step, with all the nuances of development and daily feedback.
Oh, and also now I have a constant source of dopamine on the cheap and always available – a pen, A3 paper,
and
off you go!
A must-have for everyone who wants to remember what it's like – to have fun making art and find joy in the
smallest of scribbles.
Evgeniya Morozova
Lead Environment Concept Designer at Owlcat Games, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn team
Artstation
@mirilion_art →
I often struggle to finish online courses due to a lack of engagement and inefficient
group formats. This time, I completed the course fully.
Each day encouraged me to explore my visual instincts and find my own tools. It exceeded my expectations,
helping me regain control and excitement in developing my ideas.
I became more confident in my decisions, bolder in my explorations, and clearer in my storytelling, both
visual and textual. Most importantly, it sharpened my focus.
Kate Yakovleva
Freelance Environment Concept Artist
Artstation
@katrinch →
I can say one thing: it's crucial to follow the process from beginning to end and to
trust
the mentor. Because by the end of the course, everything falls into place.
I've taken many online courses, but this one holds a special place in my heart. Throughout the course, I
felt
Konstantin's support and his genuine interest in both the students and their projects. It was also wonderful
to witness the development of my own project, as well as those of my classmates – and especially Konstantin,
who sketched alongside us each day 😌
Manel Gomez Ortiz
Technical Artist and 3D artist, Concept Artist
Artstation
@manelgomez →
I honestly thing this course is the thing that has helped me the most during my art journey. Konstantin is a great teacher!!!
It changed the way I see concept designers entirely, and gave me foundations, motivation and tools to build my own path.
I love the structure of the course, its way of teaching, and the clarity of Konstantin's explanations. Also appreciate the personal approach on giving feedback and answering questions, even the possibility to have a call with him!
Meeting other talented artists that like world-building and create ideas is awesome, and I felt really comfy with everybody. I will consider, if I can, to repeat the course in the future, or do other programs with Konstantin.
Randy Querreveld
Concept Artist
Artstation
@welfon →
Such a unique and incredible experience, this course isn't like anything you've seen before. We learned and most importantly practiced, the most important tools for ideation & visual thinking.
Learning by actually doing and practicing a lot was really valuable to not just get some information and forget, no during the course we really learned how to use all the tools we were thought by using them daily and we also learned how to find our own ways. This is so valuable. I'm missing the course already, I had a great time.
Danil Bezr
Concept Artist | Environmental & Character design
Artstation
@danil_bezr →
This is an amazing, unique, and one-of-a-kind course. Going through it means: challenge, learning, growth, progression, and the creation of your own ideas and project. Incredible support, inspiration, and very attentive guidance from Konstantin.
It genuinely helped me grow, to look at my work and at the process itself from a different angle. I'm so glad I made it to the last day! I’d love for other artists to have this experience too, who need a fresh approach to their work, inspiration, ideas, and the best mentor in the world!
I would absolutely take it again!
Michael Kupitsky
Concept Artist
Artstation
@mikle_corp →
What adds even more enthusiasm to all of this is that you're not alone - you're learning with your class and watching everyone's progress on the Miro board.
On top of that, Konstantin does the same exercises alongside us, gives daily feedback to both us and himself, and shares ideas and insights to think about. So the sense of teamwork is more than real, and the whole process is organized in a very fun and engaging way.
I looked through everyone's work and listened not only to my own feedback, but also to what my classmates were told. We also had team brainstorms, which made it even more fun. People seemed to gather from all over the world, and throughout the course we supported each other.
In total, this resulted in 409 meaningful sketches. I honestly doubt I could have created that much intentional content in an entire year.
Ashling Tu
Concept Artist, Illustrator
Artstation
@ashlingtu →
This course was an incredibly meaningful experience for me. It changed the way I think about drawing and design, shifting my focus from creating polished images to using visual thinking as a tool for exploration, problem-solving, and worldbuilding.
The daily structure encouraged consistency and experimentation, and I loved how the course emphasized connecting systems like culture, environment, history, and narrative instead of designing in isolation. The feedback was insightful and pushed my ideas further while still allowing personal creativity.
Overall, this course helped me grow both creatively and conceptually, and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in worldbuilding, concept art, or developing stronger creative thinking skills! It was a fun self exploration experience.
Roman Barsukov
Concept Artist
Artstation
@ourobrs →
Both the format and the course itself are incredibly interesting. It was fun, scary, fascinating, and challenging all at once. On top of the visual work, I even managed to expand my story and its universe and fill it with interesting details. It was great to watch how day by day our stories grew with new details and meaning, and how Konstantin walked the whole journey right alongside us.
Eugene Je
Concept artist and art director working for movie and game industry
Artstation
@eugeneje →
For a whole month I went through a new path that was unusual for me and it gave my thinking a serious upgrade.
A seriously solid course for those who already have experience but want to level up their idea generation and development. Over the course of 28 days you work on your project without references and without digital drawing. You write a lot, draw, analyze, and get feedback EVERY DAY. Gradually you start to see your internal blocks, notice where your brain lacks information, and at the same time understand what it’s capable of, how it can build an entire world.
For me this was a real challenge to myself and my inner creative. Very quickly it becomes clear how the depth of your approach to a task directly impacts the result. I especially liked that the focus here isn’t on drawing beautifully, but on truly developing an idea.
During the learning process you feel your brain “rebooting”. At first, it’s like a rusty mechanism, kind of creaking and not moving, but then it starts up and begins working so hard you can’t stop it anymore.
Anna Mihhailovskaja
Concept Artist
Artstation
@amihhailovskaja →
I’d recommend it to anyone working in creative professions – especially in an era of reusing existing ideas, developing something sincere and personal is a far more valuable way to find your audience and the people who will connect with it too, which is exactly what this course helps with.
Writer, concept artist, illustrator – it doesn't matter what specifically a person does, it's a great way to get practical tools that actually work and supervision from someone with experience who will help you start using them and get comfortable with the process of developing simple ideas into something logically grounded and woven into the structure of the world these concepts exist in.
Thank you to Konstantin for the course!
Irina Tibekina
2D artist
Artstation
@pixirain →
These 28 days were like a retreat and a boot camp all at once. It wasn't an easy walk, but the effort paid off.
Psychologically, the hardest part was the start of the third week, the number of sketches had become really noticeable and it felt like I was scraping the bottom of the barrel just to hit my quota. I think that was the exact slump that was mentioned in one of the memos.
What helped me push through the barrier was shifting my focus – my goal became not to miss a single day. That week helped me make peace with my imperfect sketches, and by the end of it I got my second wind. In the fourth week, I had to make a lot of decisions. At first I was even upset that I was struggling so much, but then I realized that the creaking of my brain meant it was learning a new skill.
Dmitry Dalnev
Concept Artist
Artstation
@dalnev →
Really loved the course! It brought back the excitement and engagement with my project, helped me sort through my ideas and shape them into a solid foundation for further work.
It was incredibly engaging to work in a group with the other guys — watching how their projects developed and how they applied the methods Konstantin was teaching. The most valuable thing I'm taking away from the course is that with the skills I've gained I now know how to work on my project effectively, and how important it is to write down your thoughts and set goals. Thank you so much for this experience!
Maria Klimkina
Concept Artist
Artstation
@marieklimkina →
Before the course started I had the feeling that my head was completely empty, I was very anxious and couldn't pull myself together. And I'm glad the course had a structure of gradually easing into the rhythm, it made it possible to push past the fears and start small. Watching my classmates and Konstantin was really motivating and kept me from giving up. Little by little even the fear of making something ugly or wrong started to fade, because the feeling that I was doing something for social approval went away.
The course is amazing. Not so much as a training program, but as a bootcamp where every day you work on your ideas, push through countless seemingly impossible dead ends, and find ideas at the very moment when it feels like your creative muscle has stopped showing any signs of life. It's hard, in the middle you think the end is near.
On day 18 it feels like you've given everything you had. But then, on day 21, it turns out there's a whole untouched field of ideas ahead of you.
Mary Iv
2D Artist, PhD student in Neurobiology
Artstation
@mariva →
For the last 7-8 years I had drawn 100% of my pictures exclusively from someone else's prompt – for a challenge, on commission, for some event – not a single picture drawn from my own desire or my own head.
So the first 20 days of the course were really tough. And then it just started flowing... And some things I only understood by day 25 (and here I was at the start thinking, why does it have to be so long and with no days off)
So what's the actual payoff? The course gives you the perfect environment to try things that are new to you and pick up the approaches and tools that will make life more fun, more interesting, more meaningful. If you're drawing right now and struggling to figure out what exactly should be drawn, this course would help. And of course there's the value of learning from a very experienced and smart mentor, those kinds of artists are few and far between, you might go your whole life without meeting one like that in real life.
I think this course will be useful to any artist, and will be especially saving if you have that feeling of stagnation and hitting a wall in your development.
Sergey Kunmay
3D Artist at Moon Studios
Artstation
@kunmaister →
The course is superb! it helps you figure out how you want to grow creatively if you were feeling lost before the course. I began to realize just how much more valuable thinking and unique human experience would become in the future.
I'm sure that someday I'll want to repeat this experience and dive back into the atmosphere of a friendly class together with our wonderful mentor Konstantin!
Ana Fedina
Concept Artist
Artstation
@anafi →
This course came into my life at just the right time and place, once again, shining a light on and revealing the importance of things I hadn't really thought much about before.
Going through the course together and watching others' sketches motivated me not to completely embarrass myself, while the daily feedback and weekend calls kept me from giving up, even though somewhere in the middle it was genuinely hard to push myself.
The main takeaway is that when you give an idea room to breathe and don't limit yourself to two lines of a brief, the subsequent design iterations come so much more easily. You know clearly what and where you need to look for references, and a lot of the back-and-forth that usually spills over into endless searching.
The course really encourages and nurtures that kind of thinking, and also helps you find an approach to those big, global things that look scary from a distance.
