On Motherhood Without Embellishment in Alina Bilash's Cartoons

Children are happiness! Even if their arrival turns the family's orderly life upside down, and calming tablets become the parents' best “friends” in the fight against worries for their beloved child.

And children also inspire moms to engage in creativity and to seek a “breath of fresh air” in the daily hustle of motherly days. This also happened to the artist from St. Petersburg, Alina Bilash.

Before having children, Alina taught visual arts and didn't even think about comics. But with the change in family status came a professional shift as well.

After all, who better than a mother-artist to draw a fun “guide to motherhood” more vividly? Moreover, there’s no need to invent anything – all the scenes flash before the eyes, you just have to capture them and put them to pencil.

But despite what seems like a difficult maternity leave period, Alina's comics are still imbued with warmth and love for this stage of life. They certainly lack whining and anger, and instead offer a truthful first‑person narrative.

It’s like a conversation with a friend, another mom on maternity leave, at a playground, when the topic brings you together and you feel support from the other side.

Someone will laugh at the baby's tantrums and say, “That was then!”, while someone else will recall getting ready for a walk or putting the beloved child to sleep and smile, saying, “Familiar!”.

Stylistically, Alina's comics also resemble illustrations for a children's book more than classic cartoons. A calm color tone, cute characters, simple and universally understandable humor.

And even if the subject in the drawing touches on unpleasant moments, such as a child's illness or a sleepless night with the baby, the picture will still be bright and positive, as if showing all mothers that nothing terrible is happening and that one should simply accept all the mishaps and difficulties of this period with a smile.

At the same time, Alina doesn’t forget about herself and understands that maternity leave is a temporary phenomenon, and professional development must be continuous.

Therefore, she draws not only comics about children, but also about herself, about life around in general. And this kind of humor also goes “over the top!” with her blog’s subscribers.

It would seem like an ordinary situation, when in childhood you dream of a specific income figure and, if you save, you’ll end up with a decent sum in hand.

But adult life makes its adjustments and childhood dreams already seem so funny and cute that, looking at Alina’s drawing, everyone recognizes themselves and smiles.

But the main thing is that the artist, with her kind drawings, brings positivity to the world, and in return receives well‑deserved “hearts” under new releases of funny pictures.
Source: https://dzen.ru/a/adSi1CtG7EcObBCT