Well, I haven't posted my drawings here for a long time... the thing is that there are few reviews here, and I started a bunch of drawings and can't figure it out... so I decided to post a few of my sketches. In general, the range is wide, from very rough works, messy sketches, to almost finished works of art✨✨✨
Ukraine isn’t just defending its territory, it’s defending its culture as well
Ukraine isn’t just defending its territory, it’s defending its culture as well
A crowd is gathering outside the historic Ukrainian National Opera House in the center of Kyiv on a sunny Saturday.
Patrons are greeting each other with hugs. Some are clutching fresh flowers to present to dancers after the ballet, scheduled to begin mid-afternoon.
Valeriia Podemok has come with friends to help support the arts even as rockets and missiles land on Ukrainian homes and…
Since the beginning of the year, more than 700 libraries have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine.
Russia struck Ukraine’s major printing press, Faktor-Druk in Kharkiv, killing at least 5 employees among the 7 dead & 20 injured. Kharkiv is the heart of Ukraine’s publishing industry. This attack on culture underscores the genocidal nature of Russia’s war. Factor-print was bombed exactly one week before the Book Arsenal (book festival), just when dozens of publishing novelties were being rushed to print. The bombing was aimed at preventing these books from being published, at preventing Ukrainians from having book fairs - for a quarter of a century, the Russians had managed to silence them using other methods, and now that they have started to find their feet, they are using bombs and missiles. And all for the sake of the "great Russian culture". Forcing people to read this literature because of the absence of destroyed Ukrainian literature. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Vivat publishing house (the bookshop belongs to them).
Wanna see how Russians hunted civilian cars in Kyiv region in March 2022?
Surreal now that it was all happening some 15 km from where I lived and I followed the local chats crying that "People, don't evacuate by the road leading to Zhytomyrska highway! Russians are hiding among trees off road there and shooting down civilian cars!!" in real time - and now I can actually see it happening on recovered footage from street cameras. Surreal.