Illy is an artist from Malaysia and the most important thing you need to know about her is that until you get to take a peek at her IG feed you can't say you know what colors look like. The brightness all her artworks explode with is so nice, the combinations are unique and very interesting. Some of the times it's about neon tones but sometimes it's not even that, maybe they're just bright and special colors

Alex is an illustrator from Boston, United states. He draws a lot of characters and has a very clean toonish/comic style that I appreciate a lot. I included the link below to a second profile of his, it's the web comic he's making and that page deserves a look let me tell you. I absolutely love the atmosphere there and all the illustrations look soooo good, the coloring is awesome and the almost human but not quite like characters close the deal giving the perfect fantasy vibes

Barbara is a self taught 2D animator from Poland. She also draws, illustrates, paints and sometimes does pixel art. Many of her pieces do give me those RPG vibes, the characters are looking like the protagonist of a fantasy book and if not then there's a good chance the atmosphere brings me straight into a fairy tale. Occasionally the artwork feels none of the above, but that only proves she has a wide horizon in front of her when it comes to deciding what to do next.

Kapi is a graphic designer and portrait painter from Poland. I found her on Artfol which I care to mention cause it's a new app and I think it's perfect for doing exactly what this blog series is all about: you get to see awesome art like Kapi's portraits and you can discover the artist and know more about them. Her expressive portraits carry a style I like a lot and I find her work on illustrating over a portrait to be colorful, original and focus capturing

Fatinha is an illustrator originally from Portugal, former designer and art director for a long time decided illustrating is her thing and we must be glad she did! I find the naturalness and simplicity of her pieces to be disarmingly good, she's capable of treating heavy themes with clear shapes and colorful subjects and does it so easily. The texture, the colors, the decisions on what the illustration is going to be about and how to paint it are all always fantastic. I'm not surprised she had the chance to work on many books

Mathias is an art director and visual developer from Poland. He has a decade of experience working in the game, animation, and advertising field, nothing to sneeze at! To give you an idea of how much he likes to change style and subjects in his artworks I'm gonna steal a sentence from the artist himself which is going to make it super clear: not only it happens but he wants it to happen! "Diversity and the range of styles in my artworks are caused by searching for a new and fresh way to communicating my stories through art."

Anna is a freelance 2D illustrator and character artist from Ukraine now based in Germany. She does original character-based illustrations and fan art. Among her interests there are creating art for covers and books as well as creating art for tabletop roleplaying games. Given the fantasy nature of some of her artworks and how beautiful they are I find her passions to be very much on point and I can't wait to see what she has in store for us. Following the high number of links to her profiles you will realize no matter the platform you like the most she will probably be present there sharing her art.

Flor is a 2D background and color artist from Dublin, Ireland. She also worked as a lighting artist and colorkey artist in the past. Her artworks are fascinating to me cause they all look so clean, polished and refined like they're all ready to be the scenes of the next animation movie I'm gonna watch on the big screen (when it's going to be possible of course!). Her style is colorful and I especially like all the illustrations featuring water

Otnaug is an artist I wasn't able to find a lot about, but his art is spectacular so I thought I had to share his works with you all no matter what. I was captured by the sketches and the portraits, he uses many different techniques and if you take a tour in the past by scrolling a bit on his IG feed you'll see how the style evolved over time. All the sketches (both the colored ones and the clear ones) and the portraits look fantastic, he is a master of details

Federica is an illustrator from Italy, she sketches a lot and does it with a unique style I love. She builds her subjects through construction lines that later on are not going to leave the scene. Sometimes those lines are actually part of the anatomy, some other times they're the lines that would define lights and shadows areas and sometimes they look to me like complete abstract creations. What's magnificent about them is that they bring something more to the illustration, they are spectacular and also help defining a style that's now clearly like a signature