Helen Li is an Australian illustrator and tattoo artist living in Poland. She has worked for clients like Nike, Google, Adobe, Dropbox and Snapchat, and has illustrated the book “The Art of Drag” for Nobrow. Her work is full of joy and personality. On the 4th episode of P2D, Helen talks about her journey from Sydney to New York and Warsaw. And how her path led her from finance to graphic design to ultimately her dream gigs — full-time illustration and tattooing. She gives listeners a deep-dive into how she developed her signature style, the importance of humor in her work, and how drawing buff babies was the pinnacle of her career. 

Vicky and Dave have a candid conversation with Helen about dealing with social anxiety and accepting failure as part of the process. But also about embracing who you are and not letting self-doubt get in the way. Because your ideas are valid. Helen loves her job and wants to keep working until something fails. Retirement isn’t really something she is looking forward to. So she even started training her left hand to draw — just in case. Hear all about it on one of the objectively funniest episodes of season 1! 

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Instagram: @helen.of.koi

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Hosted by Viktoria Cichoń and David Leutert.