Julia Zinchenko
December 14, 2022
My illustrations lately are about emotional states. In these times it is important to remain inspired, to want something, to make yourself happy with something and your loved ones, to support. Internal energy that does not require electricity
Artist
Yulia Zinchenko is an illustrator from Kyiv. She draws both digitally and traditionally. When the full-scale war began, she started to paint on the subject of the war in Ukraine in order to convey the events and feelings to the world, and to keep Ukraine’s struggle at the forefront of world news. In the past, she loved to draw her dog the most. She would like to work on illustrations for books and is always open to interesting projects.
Julia Zinchenko
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December 14, 2022
Albina Kolesnichenko
December 12, 2022
Coming back home — 108 Ukrainian women returned from enemy captivity to Ukraine. Mutilated, traumatized, exhausted and tortured, but alive, strong and brave. They show everyone the unbreakable spirit of our country and share strength to continue fighting.
Albina Kolesnichenko
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December 12, 2022
Daria Bakieva
December 10, 2022
Daria Bakieva
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December 10, 2022
Julia Zinchenko
December 7, 2022
This illustration is about sensuality and the ability to feel some emotions during the war. When there is bad news every day, the psyche seems to freeze, as well as feelings. This ice sometimes breaks through, and then you feel too much.
Artist
Yulia Zinchenko is an illustrator from Kyiv. She draws both digitally and traditionally. When the full-scale war began, she started to paint on the subject of the war in Ukraine in order to convey the events and feelings to the world, and to keep Ukraine’s struggle at the forefront of world news. In the past, she loved to draw her dog the most. She would like to work on illustrations for books and is always open to interesting projects.
Julia Zinchenko
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December 7, 2022
Albina Kolesnichenko
December 7, 2022
For the past month, the Russian army has increasingly been targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Around 40% of facilities have already been destroyed, according to Ukrainian authorities. The lack of electricity has resulted in power cuts in many cities, affecting thousands of homes. Meanwhile, people support each other and despite the blackouts, keep the light within themselves and share their warmth with others.
Albina Kolesnichenko
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December 7, 2022
Jullia Lyshanets
December 6, 2022
While you are reading this post - they are working! Protecting us, our homes and our land, on land and water. All of them traded their regular lives for our country — leaving families, homes, and jobs. Some were journalists, some teachers, some artists, but today they are scouts, snipers or gunners. All of these titans are the pride and treasure of Ukraine! Let’s honor AFU today and say THANK YOU — in the west, east, south, north and in the center of our state! 🇺🇦 Happy Armed Forces of Ukraine Day, Titans!
Jullia Lyshanets
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December 6, 2022
Lesia Pik
December 6, 2022
Miss Electricity — I miss Miss Electricity
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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December 6, 2022
Mariia Tikhonova
December 1, 2022
Bakhmut — the new Passchendaele. Horrors of First World War echoed in Ukraine as trench combat and heavy shelling take their toll
Artist
Mariia Tikhonova is an artist born in Mykolaiv, living and working in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Today Mariia creates illustrations to visualize thoughts on the war in Ukraine. But she wants to illustrate children's books and kids magazines. Since the full-scale war started, Mariia began actively creating war diaries in the book “The history of Ukraine” in collage, cutout technique.
Mariia Tikhonova
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December 1, 2022
Irina Kostyshina
November 28, 2022
A few years ago, I was at the design festival and saw there a "Drone survival guide" - a small leaflet similar to a birdwatcher's guide but listing silhouettes of different military drone models. I would hardly expect that to become Ukrainian reality, but this is what birdwatching is like this year.
Artist
Irina Kostyshina is an artist & graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She works mainly in editorial illustration and also as a comic artist, combining digital and traditional media in her works. Since the full-scale Russian invasion, Irina has focused on creating war-related illustrations and educational work on her Instagram feed to tell the truth about Ukraine.
Irina Kostyshina
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November 28, 2022
Lesia Pik
November 28, 2022
Genocide of Ukrainians by russia. The Soviet authorities organized more than one genocide of Ukrainians. First, they created an artificial starvation in 1921-1923, then in 1932-1933 ... There was still a famine after the Second World War. In those days, the Russians took everything, even ears of wheat. Now the world has changed a little, and they destroy our electricity. In the modern world - light, electricity - this is an opportunity to work, receive treatment, earn a living.....
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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November 28, 2022
Albina Kolesnichenko
November 28, 2022
Albina Kolesnichenko
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November 28, 2022
Irina Kostyshina
November 27, 2022
This week, it was Black Friday in different parts of the world but for Ukraine and particularly Kyiv it turned out to be the Blackout Friday with no electricity for more than 24 hours, no heating, no water and almost no cell service. Imagine sitting in your dark room watching the darkness outside and being unable to reach out to any of the people you care about. I hope there will be new defensive measures to prevent this from happening again. But while there is a light inside, we are moving on to our victory.
Artist
Irina Kostyshina is an artist & graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She works mainly in editorial illustration and also as a comic artist, combining digital and traditional media in her works. Since the full-scale Russian invasion, Irina has focused on creating war-related illustrations and educational work on her Instagram feed to tell the truth about Ukraine.
Irina Kostyshina
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November 27, 2022
Jullia Lyshanets
November 26, 2022
Today is Holodomor Memorial Day - the genocide of the Ukrainian nation, committed in 1932-1933 🕯 It was committed by the leadership of the Soviet Union in order to humble the Ukraїnians, to finally eliminate Ukraїnian resistance to the regime and attempts to build an independent Ukraїnian State independent of mozzcow. Millions of Ukrainians were destroyed. Now the Krемlin again wants to destroy the Ukraїnian people and the state by the method of war. But we are strong, because we are free and indomitable! Illustration "5 ears of corn" The infamous law "about five ears of corn" became a harbinger of the Holodomor. It provided for shooting on the spot and confiscation of property for theft of collective farm property.
Jullia Lyshanets
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November 26, 2022
Julia Zinchenko
November 26, 2022
Today is the day of remembrance of the victims of the terror-famine — Holodomor. What a terrible thing to imagine: a place that was full of life, is suddenly desolate and dark — there is no livestock, nothing grows, all the grain and food has been taken away… the people left in the houses are silent, only the howling of the wind can be heard. A genocide arranged by russia 100 years ago. As a result of Holodomor in 1932-33, millions of peasants were killed by hunger... about 7 million. And now they are back and seeking the same thing — burnt wheat fields, no drinking water in the occupied territories, a manufactured humanitarian crisis.
Artist
Yulia Zinchenko is an illustrator from Kyiv. She draws both digitally and traditionally. When the full-scale war began, she started to paint on the subject of the war in Ukraine in order to convey the events and feelings to the world, and to keep Ukraine’s struggle at the forefront of world news. In the past, she loved to draw her dog the most. She would like to work on illustrations for books and is always open to interesting projects.
Julia Zinchenko
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November 26, 2022
Maria Skliarova
November 20, 2022
Artist
Maria Skliarova is a digital artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She studied physics before transitioning to professional illustration six years ago. Maria is passionate about illustrating articles, and dreams of illustrating novels one day. She now lives with her husband and gray cat in Poltava, Ukraine.
Maria Skliarova
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November 20, 2022
Lesia Pik
November 19, 2022
After the emotional surge from the liberation of Kherson, I was already thinking of returning home. But then Russia decided to remind us that it is a terrorist country and again made a massive attack on our infrastructure. Russia kills Ukrainians, and those it does not kill, it leaves behind without electricity and heating. Currently, thousands of people in Ukraine are without electricity! and this is now, when the temperature has dropped below zero! That's why I decided to draw something pleasant and encouraging. Thanks to our armed forces of Ukraine.
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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November 19, 2022
Daria Bakieva
November 19, 2022
The lovers, Bakhmut 2022 — a couple comforts each other at the hospital after a Russian missile destroyed their home in Bakhmut photo by @eddyvanwessel
Daria Bakieva
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November 19, 2022
Maria Skliarova
November 19, 2022
In this title I refer to the works of Maria Primachenko “Atomic War, be damned!” (1978) and “May That Nuclear War Be Cursed!” (1989) The main idea of this drawing is the possibility of the impossible. The fact that we keep hearing about a possible (or impossible) "nuclear escalation" in our country gives the brain alarming messages, to which it generates its response. I wanted to show how the world will change, how the environment will change, and that it will no longer resemble the one we know today. modified rye + lily of the valley
Artist
Maria Skliarova is a digital artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She studied physics before transitioning to professional illustration six years ago. Maria is passionate about illustrating articles, and dreams of illustrating novels one day. She now lives with her husband and gray cat in Poltava, Ukraine.
Maria Skliarova
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November 19, 2022
Irina Zarubina
November 19, 2022
It is better without electricity and water than with Russia. Another massive shelling and destruction of a critical power system. It is dark in the city, there are candles and lanterns in the windows
Artist
Irina Zarubina is an illustrator who was forced to leave her native Kharkiv Ukraine at the beginning of the war moving to another safer city. She illustrated children's magazines and books now she mainly works with illustrations for websites, articles, and clothes.
Irina Zarubina
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November 19, 2022
Jullia Lyshanets
November 11, 2022
11.11.22 - a historical moment — a Ukrainian flag flies over Kherson! 🇺🇦 Thank you to the heroes who gave their lives for these joyful news that we all read today! The city was completely occupied on March 2, 2022. It was the only regional center that the occupiers captured since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Kherson and Kherson region cannot be conquered. We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine — let’s resist, and we will take back all our land!
Jullia Lyshanets
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November 11, 2022
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