Hi everyone! 👋 My name is Irina Kostyshina, I am an illusrator and a comic artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. You might have heard about Kyiv and about Ukraine's struggle to protect our people and independence a lot over the recent year. I made my decision to stay in Ukraine, to document in my illustrations what's happening and to help the volunteer effort.

This stays true now, I am using my illustrations and posters to raise awareness about Ukraine. I have been investing a lot of time, effort and personal funds to help local volunteers. I really want to be able to keep doing this more! Being an artist during the wartime is not easy at all, so you can now 'buy me a coffee', which I'll use to sustain my artistic practice and to donate to trusted Ukrainian volunteer funds.

You can choose to support me once, to unlock various types of memberships, or to buy digital art from me. I am planning to use 25% of my Buymeacoffee membership income and 50% of digital art sales to charity donations.
You can check out more of my artworks and trusted Ukrainian fundraisers on my Instagram.

Thanks a lot,
Irina