Sonaksha

@sonaksha.bsky.social

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Art fairy 🦋 Fat, disabled & queer ✏️ Illustration & design for social justice + human rights 🌸 Graphic recording 💭Comics https://www.sonaksha.com/ https://patreon.com/sonaksha

Image featuring different wallpapers from Sonaksha's desktop affirmation wallpaper collection.
A rectangle panel on top. Illustration of a close up of a person’s face with their eyes closed inside the rectangle. They have brown skin and purple-blue hair with bangs. There are little butterflies in yellow and indigo fluttering around lit by pink circles behind them. There are some yellow blob humans floating in different directions, jumping, wandering, circling. A dashed line follows the illustration across from bottom to top and across. Below the panel is an illustration of the same person from a distance, profile with their hands covering their face. They have purple shoulder length hair and are wearing a pink top with leaves on it. Swishes and scribbles in mint and teal colour swirl behind the person from all directions. A yellow-orange Sun like circle sits on the panel separating the bottom from the top panel. The words ‘Tired, but trying’ are hand lettered on it.
Illustration of Sonaksha with their head on fire. The background is red and there are flames bursting from their head in shades of red, pink and blue. The text below says: "I cried about waking up with my face on fire, and then felt embarrassed about not having a good enough morning routine."
Illustration of Sonaksha looking to the side with curly green hair wearing a waistcoat and polka dot top
Comic of a few lines from Lucy Dacus’s song Best Guess: The first panel is a person with light skin looking up to the sky littered with stars, their hair is magenta. The text “you may not be an angel” floats on a cloud. Next to the panel, two women are looking into each other’s eyes. The one on the right has her hands holding the one on the left’s face. Her hair is purple, skin is light, and she’s wearing a green peplum top with red pants. The person on the left has brown skin and cropped hair and is wearing an oversized jacket with a shirt peeking through. The text “but you are my girl” is near them in a panel scattered with flowers. Below is an open cigarette box with an image of two people holding hands on it. A stream flows out of it with fishes swimming through. The text floating in a cloud says “you are my pack a day”. Below is a panel with a person with brown skin and red curly hair lying down on top of a person with magenta hair lying down on a pillow. The text “you are my favourite place” is woven across the panel.
Comic titled: a short list of things I am not thinking about. The comic is in shades of pink, purple, blue, maroon, red and pink. The top panel has a person with rings on their fingers twirling the curly purple hair of a person lying down on their lap. The middle panel has two people holding hands, fighting with fingers, the background is blurry, shades of sunset skies and silhouettes of trees. The bottom panel has a close up of the person who was lying down on the lap, kissing the bare shoulders of the other person with long maroon red hair, their top falling off their shoulders.
Comic titled: Describe your pain on a scale of 1 to 10 The text across the panels reads: How do you measure something whose absence you cannot remember Panel 1: Illustration of a person with brown skin hugging their knee and holding their body. Their stretch marks are peeking through and pain points are highlighted with blobs of pink and red. Panel 2: Illustration of the person standing on a weighing scale with ‘error’ displayed on it. Panel 3: Illustration of a floating person surrounded by a burst of red.
Photograph of illustrated nail art in shades of blue, yellow, green and pink.
A comic: A rectangle is in the middle holding an illustration of two people with their eyes closed, being intimate with each other. The person on the left has their fingers on the lips of the person on the right. The person on the left has curly indigo hair and light brown skin. The person on the right has light skin and long straight hair. They are against washes of pink and purple with scattered stars in the background. There are swirly big pink and magenta clouds in front of them, and two cornflower blue leafy trees framing the rectangle on either side. The text on top in a rectangle says “Can you bring your lips here?” and right below it another rectangle has text that says “It’s been 7 and a half minutes since they were on mine.”
A comic: on top is an illustration of two people gazing into each other’s eyes. The person on the left has light skin and long straight red hair that flows out of the image. The text near them on a rectangle says “…so many questions” On the right is a person with curly indigo hair and light brown skin. There are cornflower blue leafy trees in the background. A box in between the two illustrations has an illustration of a person’s palm open. Their hands are purple. Another person’s fingers are making circles in them. There are small squiggly lines indicating a puddle around the fingers. The text in a box near them on a rectangle says “Are you distracting me?” Below is an illustration of two people kissing with their eyes closed. The text in a box near them on a rectangle says “it’s working” in italics. In the background is a bursting star with multiple smaller stars scattered across. There’s a reddish moon above them. The whole comic is framed like tassels of a carpet.
Illustration of a more/less list for 2025, featuring small drawings inside diamond shaped panels stacked next to each other. The more list includes: rest without reason, sharing messes, cultivating creativity, body joy and meals with friends. The less list includes: urgency/asap, fixating on perfectionism, isolation, midnight doomscrolling, phone proximity.
Illustration of a fairy person with brown skin, with leaves and buds growing from their chest. They have a drooping flower crown on their head and outstretched yellow wings. They are wearing charm necklaces and have their eyes closed. The text hand lettered on a cloud in front of them says: Crying, but in the mood to hold my softness in a harsh world.
Illustration of a person with teal/green wavy hair with sparkling eyes and stars across their cheeks. They are wearing a yellow polka dot top with a patterned shirt and a teal slip on top with pink frills. Behind them are a series of growing leaves and buds and above them are a few patterned boxes. The whole illustration is in shades of cool yellow, light teal, bright pink and red. The text on top says: you are making progress, even if you can’t see it now.
Illustration of two people almost kissing behind slightly drawn lace curtains. The person on the right has purple pink hair and is wearing a check green top and the person on the left is wearing a blue patterned top and they have short red pink hair. Their hands are intertwined on top with one person wearing silver finger rings. The text “if you’re gonna lie, at least do it in my bed” is wrapped around and hand drawn. There are clouds enveloping the bottom of the image.
Illustration of a more/less for 2024 list. Softness: a person with purple-blue hair with stars sparkling across their face. Time with trees: the silhouette of a person standing under different trees. Slowness: a person’s feet under water, with kelp and fishes swimming around them. Community care: a galaxy spiral with stars and planets scattered across them. Art dates: two hands reaching out with a brush and pen to create a swirl. Cuddles: two people embracing while facing each other. On the right is the “less” with 6 grid like boxes under it. Shrinking myself: a blobby person struggles to fit in between a maze of squiggles. Situationships: two volcanoes erupting against red skies. Spiralling: waves crashing and growing on top of a person’s head. Overworking: a tired underslept flower looking exhausted. Intellectualising feelings: a person holding a bunch of varied flowers. Overly packed calendar: a calendar against lots of spiky floating objects in the background.