Karolis Strautniekas is a Lithuanian illustrator based in Vilnius, freelancing since 2012. Since then, he has worked with clients ranging from niche brands to global corporations, and from social initiatives to cultural institutions, creating book, music, and film covers, festival posters, and a variety of animated works.
A fan of the Film Noir era and an admirer of retrofuturism, Karolis works with muted palettes, soft tonal shifts, and long shadows, building minimal yet layered conceptual scenes with a quiet, cinematic narrative.
He approaches every commission as a personal piece, pushing his work a step further. Rather than relying on familiar solutions, he looks for new perspectives- and usually finds them.