Andrii Pechenizkyi was born in 1955 in the village Dvorichna, near the Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1972, he was accepted to Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts. After graduation in 1977, he made his profession as a designer of printed publications and book illustrator. Since 2006, he has been working full-time at the publishing house Book Club “Family Leisure Club”.

In 2006, Andrii Pechenizkyi was awarded by the Star Bridge Kharkiv International Festival of Art and Travel for his work. Over the course of his career, he has contributed illustrations for approximately 500 publications — works of classical literature, fantasy, historical adventure novels, detective stories, and books of poetry. Additionally, Pechenizkyi has authored and published three technical books dedicated to drawing: Drawing Landscape (2011), Drawing the Human Figure (2011), and Drawing Architectural Masterpieces (2013). From 1972 to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Andrii Pechenizkyi has lived and worked in Kharkiv.