I am an Art Director in a design agency that I co-founded. I focus on fun and colorful creative designs and animations, I just love expressing my edgy and vibrant style and also bringing people joy when they look at my art. This is my true passion and I always look for more inspiration and other creatives people to meet and share our creative vibes and pursuits. I am ambitious and energetic, just want to get all positive experience in life as the world has so much to offer. I read books all the time, mostly business, self-help and fiction, so I am very into personal growth and would meet like-minded people who develop themselves. I am an auto-didact so I non-stop teach myself new skills and always try something new, for example I learned entire 3D modelling and animation just by myself in less than one year.

My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erik_chmil/

I also actively do various sports, such as: yoga, beach tennis and currently I'm very into kickboxing. In winter I also go to mountains for snowboarding, I fuel my art with active lifestyle.

In general I am a positive, sanguine person and people like being around with me because it is easy and fun :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I founded my design studio just a couple of years ago and it is still pretty small as a company, I go abroad for business trips to meet creatives, entrepreneurs, other businesses or just nice people for networking. It is fun for me and good for my business, it is more as a lifestyle even, but I don't have a big turnaround and can't afford hotels or renting places in expensive cities. This time I want to try couch surfing because I've heard many good things from my travelling friends, as they met a lot of very nice people and made great memories because of couch surfing.

Interests

• books
• design
• graphic design
• contemporary art
• yoga
• technology
• sports
• animation
• business
• business travel
• art
• digital art
• gym
• illustration
• lucid dreaming
• virtual reality
• art museums
• kickboxing
• 3d
• 3d animation
• business ideas
• enterpreneurship
• yoga and meditation
• business development
• character design
• art direction
• beach tennis
• 3d art
• esotherics

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite Movies:

American Beauty
Fight Club
Pan's Labyrinth
Crazy, Stupid Love

My favorite Books:

Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Alan Glynn - Limitless
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Left my day-job and created my own design studio, which always was my dream.

Teach, Learn, Share

What I can teach:

Lucid Dreaming
3D Modelling and animation
Drawing realism
Drawing cartoon characters and stylisation
Graphic design principles like composition and color study
Adobe Photoshop (Digital Painting or Photo Retouching),
Adobe Illustrator (Vector Graphics), Premiere (Video Editing),

As an Art Director I have all base knowledge in all of these fields and would be happy to share my skills :)
From fun things I can teach you how to play drums or cajon, some breakdance moves, beatbox. I also play a bit of piano and guitar if it is something that you find interesting. And if you wan't some a self-confidence boost I can teach you how to punch or perform a proper kick that I learned from Karate and Kickboxing.
Esotherics

What I would like to Learn:
Spanish language,
Italian language,
Business Development,
Marketing,
Cinema 4D,
Sales
Meditation

What I Can Share with Hosts

In general I can tell you about life in Europe, and Creative business. I also have read huge amount of isotherical books about enlightening and self-help, so If you feel something dramatic I may help you out with my knowledge and my strong sense of empathy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom