mavkanyavka

22, she/her, ukr/eng Слава Україні profile pic by pani-data

[mavkanyavka]

im open for chats and mutuals

dont train AI of my artwork and you can share it only with credits thank yeeewww

post with all info how to support Ukraine - here

[mavkanyavka]

[mildewwww]

Trying to draw Rin with crayons

[mavkanyavka]

also my part of the trade with absolutely awesome sauce @space-lamplighter :3c

was a pleasure to draw their character

[space-lamplighter]

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Character belongs to the absolutely lovely, wildly creative, and endlessly inspiring

@mavkanyavka

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[mavkanyavka]

LOOK THATS MY SOOOON !!!!!!!!

[mavkanyavka]

i lost interest to this drawing because i made :| face expression AGAIN but i like what i did with textures so let it be

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It's May - which means Mermay! 🫧✨️

I thought I'd start by looking back at my 2025 and 2024 works

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[2025]

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[2024]

I haven't been very active lately. Kind of fell out of rhythm for a bit…but!

I'm trying to get back into it ✨

[pani-data]

[mavkanyavka]

*blinks at you excitedly*

[elikinflower]

My trans characters for (late) trans day of visibility

(Bonnie, August, Alex)

[mavkanyavka]

:3с

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:3c

[ostebee]

I don't want to be friends with russians. Not even regular ones. I don't want to seek for good russians. I want them to simply fuck off my home and allow me and my ukrainian friends to live, fathers and mothers who are servicemen in Ukrainian Armed Forces to raise their children back in their homes, for our government to improve and to become better without need to plead everyone for weapons. Is it too much? Or too political?

I wanted to buy switch without "I will have something to do while power outages" thoughts. I wanted to work calmly and comfortable without stress from air raid alarms and explosions, without need to explain kids that "this explosion happens because our Air Forces are protecting us from threats".

And I want russians to stay away from me, my blog, my art, my family, my hometown, my entire fucking country. Including Luhansk and Donetsk regions and Crimea peninsula and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

[mavkanyavka]

made some custom dithering brushes, having SO MUCH fun

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🌸☠️🌸

[klukllya]

art dump of stuff that i think deserves to be posted

bcs i didnt post in a while

mostly my ocs

[coffee-in-veins]

Asking as someone who just doesn't know, do you have any suggestions to identify Russian artists in fandom spheres? I want to stop supporting them

hullo hullo o/ thank you for a very relatable ask

unfortunately, i don't have some "one fit all" solution for this, but there are some methods, each a bit more time consuming than the last

Check their blog. See "ru" in there? Become sus. If it's stated first, i just block and move on to not waste my time. if it's stated later on - up to you; i'd block still, but if you have time/nerves/energy you can dig deeper and see if it's just a language someone knows or ruzzian who doesn't want to be called out

Example:

2. Check if there are links to other soc.med or other things. Most of the time, you'll either see places somewhere: x, bluesky, insta, wherever. Youtube is a good test if they have it, you can check the country there. If it's not stated, become sus and check the oldest videos. See/hear ru? Block.

Example:

Translation from ru:

3. Speaking of links you may see. See boosty? Block. It's ru parteon, in essense.

4. Same for vk aka vkontakte. Ru attempt of facebook, afaik. Block.

5. Same for yandex email. Block and move on.

6. Another more niche thing is ficbook. Aka "ru try to steal ao3 as well". Block and move on.

7. Check if there are things in pinned posts. Maybe they mention where they are from (people are insane like that nowadays because internet security knowledge is shit), and it can be useful. See a geographic name, check where it is. Ru? Block and move on

8. This one requires some time (and why i usually am so hesitant to like any new artists without checking and cross checking them...) but you can also check their art. Especially older art. They might have ru text in the art itself that you can spot and use to identify them, altho I understand that reading cursive can be challenging

Example:

This one is easier for me, as I know the language, but if you are relying only on google translate, check a few times as it loves lumping other languages into ru for some reason. ы, э (not є) and ё can be telling, tho - but again, they are used in other languages too, and it's better to double check if you're not sure.

9. If you see a combination of "Z" *and* russian language, congratulatons, you found a genocide supporter as Z is how ru soldiers mark themselves. Consider it nazi's swastika if you will, they're the same.

10. This one is more of an observation than a rule, but if you see someone who is a fan of Pathologic (or "Мор. Утопия" in ru) become suspicious. In my experience, 7 times out of 10, they do turn out to be ru. But this is more of a personal experience

Addendum to points 3-6: duckduckgo/google/search by other method of your preference their nickname. People usually reuse those, and you can see same people in vk or on boosty. If you're afraid of unrightfully blocking someone with the same nickname, you can try opening those and check if the same art/pfp/posts are there. I usually just block. But maybe you'll have more energy than me.

Those are all that I can think of from the top of my head, but if I'll find/remember any more, I'll make sure to add them. And if any of my fellow Ukrainians would like to add their own methods or observations, feel free to do so!

[wordswithoutaworld]

OP already gave a such good answer. I just wanted to try to add a few more specific observations that might help, in my opinion. So in most cases, I can already recognize that an artist is from Russia by some specific art style details, and I think many Ukrainians can do the same (because social media algorithms unfortunately tend to show us a lot of Russian content). It’s difficult to describe those aspects precisely in words, since it’s more about an overall artistic style and atmosphere, so it would be great if any Ukrainian artists could explain this more clearly than I can.

The artworks often lack bright colors and tend toward a darker palette. The coloring style frequently resembles painterly strokes. In some cases, there can also be many sharp angles, especially if it’s a sketch. Bright, strong highlights are relatively rare.

There is often a depressive tone, with a tendency to romanticize abuse and toxic relationships (everyone has their own preferences when it comes to shipping and character dynamics, but Russians often add heavier elements even where there isn’t much angst to begin with; there is even a general term for this tendency in their culture—chernukha, etc.). Overall, there is more despair than optimism or resilience, or a desire to overcome something.

There is little to no presence of non-white characters. At most, you might see ethnic minority groups within Russia itself depicted in national costumes; rarely Kazakhs as well (Kazakhstan also has a sad, complicated history with Russia, but is often seen as a “friendly” country toward Russia by Russians), though this is usually also tied to cultural elements. Outside of that, it is rare to see non-white characters portrayed as ordinary people. I would also add that characters who do not fit Eurocentric beauty standards are quite rare too.

Frequent use of the term “slavic”. Many other nations and cultures, which are already tired of fighting for proper representation, tend to specify who they are exactly and where they are from. It also comes from an unspoken pattern: anything labeled under the broad term “slavic” can later easily be absorbed as part of “russian culture,” as this has historically been one of the imperial practices of appropriating other cultures. Additionally, many people still perceive Russia as the primary or “default” representative of slavic identity, so the term often automatically brings Russia to mind. A similar issue exists with language: people often see cyrillic and assume it is Russian.

So, well, I’m not sure how useful this addition actually is, but I hope some of what I said will help somebody.

[softie-draws]

Telegram channels are a telltale sign! Ukrainian artists also sometimes have those, for example, but most of the time if you see a tg link without the country mentioned, they're russian. You can check the channel description like the OP said if you feel particularly generous, tho.

In addition to the word "Slavic" I have also seen them use "Eastern European" and even "Baltic" in very broad terms without mentioning a specific country. In my experience, that's a warning sign.

Regarding the art style — there is definitely a sort of meanness to the russian art. I don't know what it is, maybe it is in the air. Semi-realism with sharp angles is something I usually tend to check just in case and hit just right most of the time. Especially if it contains the aforementioned glorification of abusive relationships and depression. Dark colour palette, yes, but also a sort of academism, at times, in the way they draw, especially if it's a study.