“As a kid growing up in New Castle County, Delaware, Igor would frequently draw monsters in his schoolbooks — a journey into the fantastical that’s echoed in his collection of oddities. He studied commercial art in high school and first learned to paint grocery store signs in the ’80s when hand-painted window signs like “Steaks for 15 cents” were still commonplace.

Igor’s first official gig was painting signs for his aunt and uncle’s pizza shop as a teenager, a short-lived, though lucrative, endeavor and his first taste of entrepreneurship. After high school, Igor moved to Ocean City, Maryland, where he painted the sides of boats. He eventually made his way to Virginia Beach in 1990, where he was hired to do window displays for a local store chain. Ten years later, he decided to dive fully into his art, an idea he initially resisted before necessity intervened.

“I had to do something, or I was going to go broke,” Igor remembers. “I tried the painting thing and from day one, I’ve never had to do anything else.”
Igor always had artistic inclinations, which were greatly influenced by his mother and grandfather’s art, and he inherited his petrol-head genes from his dad and uncle’s love of classic cars and foray into drag racing in the ’60s. His creative genius is equally fueled by his eclectic taste in music, and his shop includes the paraphernalia of a true audiophile.”

https://districtfray.com/articles/inside-igors-custom/