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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈

@maksymdraws.bsky.social
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Freelance Illustrator. Born in Donetsk, living in Kyiv 🇺🇦 For commissions: maxim.filipenko@gmail.com

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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Spot-on Illustration by @maksymdraws.bsky.social for today's essay by Kenneth Harris: Mass-produced science is coming. What happens to scientists? www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... #sciart #FENS2026 @thetransmitter.bsky.social
A female scientist in a white coat watches a grid of conveyor belts with objects that look like neuronal models or network models moving by.
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what they meant to say @wtmts.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
And this one made by me, inspired by @maksymdraws.bsky.social
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Europe may not hold the cards. But Europe holds the eggs
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Maria Avdeeva @mariainkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Putin claims he supports 30‑day ceasefire, but immediately adds “nuances” that make it unworkable. And the biggest nuance is never trust Russia
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🚨 My first full-fledged speculative illustration project 🚨 This illustration is made for an article by @maxkozlov.bsky.social published in @nature.com. Love how it turned out!
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trump says we have half a ceasefire. So those are half-drones I hear half-exploding in Kyiv tonight?
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Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ceasefires are not peace, nor are they binding. Putin knows this all too well. He has violated every one of them.
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what they meant to say @wtmts.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump's administration published a list of his 50 "achievements", where he claims to be a genius peacemaker - this is how he envisions himself I believe. P.S.: I hope, France will be able to forgive me.
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Donald Tusk has a point here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
No one had any problem discussing Biden’s sharpness of of mind (or lack thereof). So when are we going to stop pretending that these sort of comments are anything but senile ramblings? And you can’t think of a more consequential life and death context.
He added: "I think he [Putin] wants to get it stopped and settled and I think he's hitting them harder than he's been hitting them and I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now."
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Never judge a book by its cover, but feel free to judge my book covers! #WorldBookDay
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This sunset in Kyiv is so menacing.
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what they meant to say @wtmts.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If the White House is so bothered with people's looks, why won't they get Trump a normal wig and makeup? Instead of taking him to the Oompa Loompas' beauty parlor.
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a couple of cartoon characters standing next to each other with their hands up .
ALT: a couple of cartoon characters standing next to each other with their hands up .
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Geoffrey geoff @geofferygeoff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“Your clothing style is disrespecting our sacred building!”
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is a perfect illustration of the heart of the philosophy, "rules for thee but not for me" that explodes from the admin!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two. Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time. But fear of war led to war. Don’t repeat the mistake. #SlavaUkraini
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thank you, good people, for standing with Ukraine! Seeing non-Ukrainians expressing their support and condemning the bullies is really important right now.
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Luke Johnson @ljohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This won’t get a headline, but JD Vance stammered when Zelenskyy challenged him about not having been to Ukraine yet saying what their problems are.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Watching this from Ukraine is extremely unnerving. Will that brawl in the Oval office make things even worse for us?
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
These past few weeks have been wild for Ukraine, so I feel the urge to say something about. Thread 👇 Three years ago Russia invaded my country. The second unprovoked invasion since 2014. Lives of millions were turned upside down once again, including mine.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Some things don't change... I created this illustration one year ago. It shows speaker Mike Johnson comfortably sitting in his chair and reading the Bible, while Russia is razing to the ground the town of Avdiivka in Ukraine.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Being woken up by explosions is still something I cannot get used to, even after almost 3 years of the full-scale invasion
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hello there! I am not very active on Bluesky (but might become in the future). So, this is a quick introduction for all the people who have followed me recently 🙂
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My new illustration (and a comic of some kind) marks a 7-day countdown to Trump's inauguration. People around the world are bracing themselves for a dramatic change. Especially here in Ukraine, we hardly know what to expect.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
So weird, I haven't been active here for a long while and not much was happening. But since yesterday I've gained 20+ followers for no reason, and they keep coming! If you are one of my new followers, could you please let me know what made you follow me?
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Self portrait, April 2024
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
Personal news: * I'm not dead; * I finished a month-long illustration project; * I was listening to Portishead non-stop while working on the project; * My mind concocted the idea of this poster which finally came to life today!
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
*Speaker Mike Johnson sits comfortably at home* ... all the while he could stop Russia from razing another Ukrainian city to the ground.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Avdiivka. Here used to be a lovely coffee place where my friend invited me once. Her home (or what's left of it) is just a 15 minutes walk from this place.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
*Jerry Heil & Alyona Alyona* This Ukrainian duo is likely to win #Eurovision2024 with their spiritual anthem 'Teresa & Maria', according to bookmakers. Well, I wouldn't be surprised! It was a joy drawing these two 🙂
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Finishing very cool Ukraine-related illustrations for a British journal that will be published in April. It's the first time my work will be published with such a delay. Where I will be in April and whether I will be at all I don't know. Ugh...
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
This is me at Izolyatsia art centre in Donetsk, 10 years ago. In two months Russia would invade my country and turn this place into a torture chamber. Rooms where people like me could enjoy art would turn into prison cells. Unforgivable.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
New year = new projects I'm an illustrator from Ukraine looking for projects. If you need to illustrate anything (news stories, books, album covers, etc.) - just DM me. Check out the thread below for examples of my work
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Two hours after the strikes, the smoke is still rising over Kyiv's right bank.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
All I can say now.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Can't remember this many hypersonic Kindzhal (or 'Dagger') missiles sent towards Kyiv.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Perhaps one of the biggest attacks on Kyiv. I've really lost count of the explosions for the past hour, but we're speaking about dozens of missiles.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
#artvsartist #artvsartist2023
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
End of the year selfie. 2023 was hard. All I know is that 2024 will be even harder, so please keep on supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🦌 And a huge thank you to everyone who has been backing up Ukraine. You are our lifeline that makes us keep going. It would have been much harder without you.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
My first year in illustrator capacity! Happy to post this selection of my favourite works.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 24/12/2023
Visiting my parents for Christmas and I found these Polaroid photographs I took of central Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, back in 2010 and sent home. 1. Central Bakhmut, trolley bus, historic building 2. Central Bakhmut square 3. Beach volleyball at the lake in Chasiv Yar 4. A street scene
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
It’s unbelievable, but people in Ukraine - at least here in Bucha - are now really celebrating the Christmas Eve and Christmas in the new, “western style” on December 25. There’s shopping craze, Christmas carols all around. Ukraine in 2013 and Ukraine in 2023 are two totally different countries.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
New investigation by @OCCRP (which I had the honor to illustrate!) reveals how Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have been supplying Russia with a crucial component for gunpowder used in artillery - cotton pulp. THREAD 👇
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Super proud of this new illustration of mine. And I think it will mark a new, more comics-driven, direction in my art. Now, can you guess the story illustrated here?
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Feels good to draw something new and just for myself. Now question: do you think it works better as a... 🔹 Book cover 🔹 Film poster 🔹 Graphic novel cover Honest opinions appreciated.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Kyiv - there was a sound like air defenses, explosions reported, but before any air raid sirens. Sirens just started. Very odd. Sneak Russian attack? UPD: Reports that ballistic missile was shot down over left bank (east bank of Dnipro) Kyiv.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Saturday morning in Kyiv starded with a bang - loud explosions without air raid alert.
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Maksym Filipenko 🏳️‍🌈 @maksymdraws.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
You should absolutely watch 20 Days in Mariupol if you have an opportunity. This documentary alone is enough to indict Putin and everyone involved in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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