Merry Christmas! I Make This Really Cool Drawing Of A Ukrainian Christmas Vertep.

The Halloween season is upon us! You know what that means! TIME TO REWATCH OVER THE GARDEN WALL SERIES

Made these stickers in krita. Might print them on sticky paper and give to my friends or sell or something

I saw this video from @shar on youtube and i HAD to draw him. youtu.be/Xx8TQfhRVXY Idk what is it about him but a frog with daisy on its head? Perfection. I drew like 5 different variants because i was indecisive and also experimented with noise texture for the first time ^^(The first one is my favorite btw).

right now i am mostly posting allready finished art that i have in the backlog but here i had to make an exeption and draw a new art right away

Bug of the day: WEEVIL!!!

This is a weevil appreciation post

What insects should I draw next?

Ghosts go sightseeng too u`know

There is a saying in Ukrainian: "Tell an idiot to pray and he`s gonna smash his head" (Скажи дурню молитися і він голову розіб'є). Sometimes you can just say the firs half since everyone already know the second one. Context is It comes from the tradition of bowing/kneeling during prayer. And it can have two meanings:

No matter how easy, simple or straightforward the task is, a stupid person will still find a way to screw it up...somehow. Kinda like the phraze "You had ONE job, dude!"

No matter how healthy, constructive, well-intentioned, moral, wize, demure or logical the idea/cause/midset, an idiot will still find a way to either: a) completely misunderstand/distort it/miss the entire point....and screw it up, or b) go copletely overboard with no measure....and screw it up

This isn`t even related to anything specific in my life or on the internet, i just REALLY REALLY wanted to share some cool sayings/idioms from my language. Maybe language and folklore nerds will like it. Maybe writers and worldbuilders will get some cool inspiration for the way characters speak. Maybe i will just spread the good will of funny shit in my language and culture. I will post some more of these

Almost forgot the last creature I made for the cryptid artbook project: the Chugaister from Ukrainian mythology. Described as a large bear-like man, naked and super hairy (with almost animal-like fur), that roams the Carpathian mountains. Despite his appearance, he is a benevolent creature and doesn’t seem attack humans unless provoked. In fact, according to tales, he’s quite friendly towards people. He doesn’t speak like humans, but if he encounters you camping in the forest, he will gladly join you to dance around a bonfire, engaging in a sort of friendly dance battle. He’s super chill overall, especially if you share your food.

Additionally, the Chugaister protects humans from evil spirits and dangers, including NIAVKAS.

You might have heard of "Mavka" from the cartoon "Mavka, the Forest Song." BUT Mavkas and Niavkas are separate beings in folklore (though there is some overlap). I remember reading these different interpretations of the same entity come from different regions (can`t find right now) , but generally:

Mavkas are benevolent, playful forest spirits, almost like forest nymphs with green hair. Niavkas, on the other hand, are described as having transparent skin on their backs through which you can see their organs, usually covered with long hair. They are considered extremely dangerous, akin to skinwalkers or certain types of Fae (if you’re familiar with Fae/Fey mythology).

Made this sticker when we had blackouts and no electricity/water here in Ukraine. It is fine where i live now, but there are othere regions that still have it very tough :/

The f@cking cynizm of russia is astonishing

Russian advances were basically stopped in their tracks and all they can do right now is shell big cities like Mariupol, Kharkiv and Kyiv, destroying infrastructure, old architecture and civilian housers. But let`s ignore for a bit how this is an obvious crime against humanity (cus russia clearly doesn`t even know what that is) Russian and Ukrainian army agreed to ceasefires and created green corridors to let the people evacuate from cities, but every single  time russia broke the ceasefire and attacked those green corridors (mind you, green corridors that THEY agreed to. BOTH SIDES AGREED TO. How can Ukraine negotiate and find agreements with a country that never keeps those agreements????).

Like they specifically targeted and aimed at people that were escaping!

And the most cynical thing is that russian government  keeps saying that ukrainian soldiers are using ukrainian citizens as a human shield, not letting them out of the cities and russians are forced to shoot at them.

When russians ARE NOT LETTING THEM ESCAPE. They are doing everything to make people imprisoned in those death crockpots They are shooting at cars and killing people that are trying to leave  this woman`s mother was killed https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXc7yhF-d5/ And there are even videos of captured russian soldiers confessing that they were ordered to shoot at civilians.

And if that wasn`t enough, they also do not let any humanitarian convoys to enter into the cities. They are basially holding mariupol under siege and not alowing any humanitarian help in and destroying all infrastructure. There is no running water, no medicine, people are melting snow drink and almost 80% of all buildings in the city are destroyed or damaged in some way.

THEY DO NOT WANT TO OVERTAKE UKRAINE, THEY WANT TO COMPLETELY DESTROY IT AND LEVEL IT WITH THE GROUND!

PRESSURE YOUR AUTHORITIES TO COSE THE SKIES! STOP RUSSIA NOW, OR ELSE THE CHAOS THAT IT BRINGS WILL COME TO YOUR HOME TOO!

"I will stop hitting you... but you have to put down the pepper spray, you cant hold it in your hand... and you cant keep keys in your pocket either. No you cant go to self defence or the gym. No you cant get stuff from your friends either, why would you need to... In fact you cant own a pepper sparay at all, you wouldn`t need it"

sO putin agreed to possible ceasfire... but the rules are that Ukraine can't: - do moblization - do training - receive weapons during that ceasfire... 🤔 Huh... So its "We are at peace... but you have to be in a MAX vulnerable and unpreperred position in case i (defintely dont) attack you again" "We are at peace... but i don`t trust you to have any ability or resource to defend yourself... It`s a danger to me (In a case where i attack you)"

Here are some more tail color variants. Coment a color scheme you want to see and i will tadpol-ify it. Lgbtq flags or just regular color schemes ^^

I was drawing tadpoles and couldn`t decide on a color palette so i just made them rainbow cus remembered that "gay frogs" meme. I will turn them into wallpaper or smth