The Rome-based oil painter who learned everything from one fellow student, has a neutral-to-hostile relationship with the art market, and is still working toward the series he has been avoiding for years. 

The Florida illustrator who came up in 2D animation, found her style in vintage Japanese cat illustration, and has been building toward the Kelly Pringle Cat Empire ever since. 

The Puerto Rican-Mexican collectible designer and art toy creator who built a thesis around a doodle, left a styling career to make art full time, and is about to introduce Pez to the world. 

Sam Hox's clients see three pitches. They never see the ten or twenty that came before them. By the time a mood board lands in front of a client, Sam has already done real design work inside it.

Nina spent years drawing other people's characters to build a following, until it started killing her creativity and she built a world entirely her own.

Alex Vargas built a world out of limitations, and made it somewhere you'd actually want to live.

Danielle Taylor didn't want to study graphic design. She wanted fine arts, and when her parents pointed her elsewhere, she spent her freshman year of college with a grudge against the whole field and no particular desire to lose it.

David Momodu is a brand identity designer and poster artist based in Lagos. His work arrives fully formed before he opens the software.

His sketchbook is what led him to work as a concept artist for clients like Riot, DreamWorks, and others over the past six years.

DSGN VERSE’s failed pieces stay on his feed. He keeps them there as punishment for having forced a design when nothing had clicked.

Stephen Lladones shoots against the camera, using shutter drag to pull motion back into a medium engineered to remove it, turning the streets of Macau into streaks of neon and held light while keeping something still at the center.

Galina, a 24-year-old painter based in Saint Petersburg, draws from her difficult childhood and paints emotions she never got to have.

In a generation that has decided not caring is the cool position, Genesis Bullets is making loud, grain-heavy work that says otherwise.

At seventeen, Anse is building a design practice out of grain, memory, and everything she photographs on the way to somewhere else.

Nathan approaches art with a blue-collar mindset, focused on doing the work well. His illustrations come from real places and careful decisions, not forced meaning.

Everyone else is chasing perfection. The Dutch animator thinks that's exactly the problem.

Nicholas Cunningham builds comical animations that feel straight out of early YouTube, where personality mattered more than perfection and timing was everything. What looks simple on the surface is backed by discipline, repetition, and a commitment to just keep posting.

From dinosaur documentaries to psychologically charged creature design, Haekal’s work evolved into something darker and more deliberate. His art proves that fear and fascination often live side by side.

Screens are designed to dominate cities, not disappear into forests. In this interview, Lorry Barbedette explains why he took a medium built for control and visibility and placed it somewhere it feels out of place.

After burning out on digital art, Robbie stepped away from the screen and rebuilt his practice through traditional materials. With merely paper and colored pencils, Robbie has ventured into a stripped back style filled with muted palettes and animal subjects.

Victor Escudero, better known as itsvimart online, stepped into the professional art world eight years ago. Since then, he’s taken on roles from freelance illustrator to Art Director at Nostalgix TCG, created cover art for bbno$ and Ironmouse, all while building a multi-style portfolio online.

Taco took his instinct for storytelling and layered it under his surreal imagination, giving him a dual identity, switching between an illustrator led by dreams and a designer trained in discipline.

Mira walked away from a thriving career in graphic design and into an exciting new chapter of restless illustration that is pulling attention online.

Emon Surakitkoson didn’t go to art school. She didn’t grow up with a paintbrush in hand, either. But within three years of selling her first $10 painting, she was installing work for Marriott Hotels and getting recognized as one of D.C.’s top emerging artists.

In the couple of years since Melika’s sneaker-sculptures started ricocheting across feeds, the Coventry-born artist has become a name to know in the crossover space between footwear culture and fine art.

Death By Narwhals is a Korean American artist whose paintings have been displayed at some of DC’s biggest art shows. His work blends memory, grief, and cultural duality.

Jennifer Evans is a 24-year-old digital artist from Waco, Texas. She’s been drawing since she was fourteen years old, and specializes in digital landscape painting and character concept design, although she occasionally works with traditional media.

In the years since James Dimmick picked up a tattoo gun, the self-taught artist has found himself caught between the spiritual and the material worlds. His work, which moves between tattooing and painting, feels both grounded and philosophical, shaped by a lifelong fascination with discomfort and the subconscious.