Anastasiia Stepaniuk

I was born and raised in Kiev. Now I live and work in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine.

I am an illustrator, artist and tattoo artist. Since 2021 - member of The National Association of Artists and Sculptors of Ukraine.

It seems like there are two personalities living inside of me, but the creativity of both was primarily influenced by books.
Old botanical encyclopedias and old illustrations inspire me. I love small details and I am fascinated by seemingly insignificant nuances. The illustration lives its own life and allows you to peep at its world. Magical and complex, in which there are things invisible to the eye, but so important and global. Illustrations are like a door to another world in which you can feel like an explorer and spend hours looking at the drawing, noticing new and new details.

The second part of me is striving for the general, trying to evade the particular. The second part of me loves fiction and poetry. The works of this side of me were influenced by the books of Charles Baudelaire, Chuck Palahniuk, Burgess, Burroughs, Kerrouac and others. I like to see the beauty in the broken and the painful. This is a special beauty that cannot be compared with anything. You can look at the picture and see how life ...

I am self-taught artist.