About & Contact
Liza Goncharova (she/her) is an award winning designer and freelance illustrator based in Minneapolis. She specializes in line art and character-based work. Coming from a diverse background, Liza utilizes her hand-drawn illustration skills to bring in the human element into everything from a campaign initiative and brand identity to comics and animation. With a passion for social justice, storytelling, anthropology, folklore and psychology, Liza works to express the broad spectrum of the human condition one stroke at a time.
Selected Clients
TPT Now, PBS
Hazelden Betty Ford
ViacomCBS
Children's Minnesota
Allina Health
Pixel Farm
Code42
Land O' Lakes
Periscope
Work History
FREELANCE DESIGNER + ILLUSTRATOR
Present
ART DIRECTOR | WCCO-TV MPLS / VIACOMCBS
2019-Present
CO-FOUNDER + DESIGNER | AFTER HOURS ART COLLECTIVE
2019-Present
LEAD DESIGNER + ANIMATOR | CRASH+SUES
2016-2019
Spotlights
AWARDS//
Emmy Award Winner 2021 | 6 Days In May [link] Art Director, Designer.
The Show 2019 Silver | Coloplast Titan Sales Video [link] Art Director, Creative, Animator.
EXHIBITIONS//
Con of the North, Winter 2020
Midwest Comic Book Association Comic Con, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
Wildish Art Event Exhibition
Minneapolis, Fall 2018
Education & Skills
EDUCATION//
BFA (Honors) Graphic Design with focuses in Illustration + Animation
University of Minnesota, Class of 2016
CORE SKILLS//
Clip Studio Paint
Adobe Creative Suite (PS, AI, AE, ID, PR)
ADDITIONAL SKILLS//
Storyboarding, web design, research, writing, copyediting, French, Russian.
Let's get in touch!
Feel free to reach me at lizarova.draws@gmail.com for any inquiries.