Tasha Levytska’s illustrations will put a smile on your face, even in the gloomiest of days. Describing her aesthetic as “fun, sometimes sarcastic, colorful, a bit psychedelic,” her goal is to make people laugh. “I like to make a good laugh and usually trying to find something funny in the outer world and bring it to my illustrations,” she said in an interview with Ballpitmag.
Based in Kyiv, her work includes editorial illustrations, advertising, and publishing, as well as web illustrations and animated GIFs. Very much character-driven, her wonky figures are based on her daily observations of the world around her. “I think that art is everywhere and I really like to observe,” says Levytska. “So, if in the subway you’ll see a girl who obscenely stares at you, probably it’s me.”
But growing up, she didn’t actually aim to become an artist. “I can’t say I drew a lot when I was a kid and I always wanted to be a coder when I grow up,” she admits, explaining that she would spend most of her time in the woods, playing games and building tree houses.
It was only when she attended university, and while studying biophysics, that she took to drawing. “At the university, I understood I enjoy drawing some weird imaginary creatures and I started to draw a lot,” she says. The rest was, of course, history.
