Asia Ladowska

UK-based artist, Asia Ladowska possesses a unique Manga-inspired style as result of her early interest in hyper-realistic art and a lifelong passion for Manga and Anime. Discovering a community of like-minded individuals on social media, she grew her part-time hobby into a successful illustration practice, with support of over a million followers. Through her Instagram hashtag "Sketch with Asia'" she connects with her supporters and encourages budding artists to "pursue what they love and to ...

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Atey Ghailan

Atey Ghailan is concept artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California, where he previously worked for the video games developer and publisher, Riot Games. He grew up in Sweden, eventually moving to the US where he worked as a freelance illustrator and concept artist. Atey’s influences include Japanese art and anime films, as well as cartoons. His evocative and highly atmospheric art aims to capture and depict a slice of real life, and is often filled with warm, hazy, and almost nost...

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Beatrice Blue

Beatrice is a Montreal-based art director and author/illustrator working both in publishing and the animation industry. She loves to travel and explore the natural world. Author of “Once Upon a Dragon’s fire”; "Once Upon a Mermaid's tail"; and the critically acclaimed “Once Upon a Unicorn Horn”, she has worked with companies such as Dreamworks TV, Apple TV+, Hasbro, Procreate, Harper Collins, Nickelodeon, Square-Enix and Penguin R.H. among many others and is the founder of the popular "Childh...

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Bryce Kho

Bryce Kho, a concept illustrator and freelance mixed-media artist based in Pasadena, California, is known for his vibrant and intricate anime-inspired illustrations that stir nostalgia. His portfolio spans a range of roles including illustrator and concept artist, contributing to projects such as Homestead Arcana and Aegis Defenders’. After a first collaboration with Sabotage doing illustrations for The Messenger, Bryce joined the team to handle all things concept art and character design on ...

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Cosmic Spectrum

Yana Bogatch is a freelance illustrator, character designer, and comic artist based in Toronto, Canada. With over 15 years experience and a degree in Traditional Animation, Yana loves to experiment with new media and techniques, both digitally and traditionally, and has developed unique approaches to both in her character design. She also creates and sells in-depth tutorials, real-time demonstration videos, and products for her shop.

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Devin Elle Kurtz

Devin Elle Kurtz is a 24-year-old digital illustrator, visual development artist, and background painter, with a focus on fantasy creatures and colorful environments. She works full-time on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment as lead background artist, but still makes time to focus on personal projects and business interests. Of particular note is Devin’s love of nature, with her whimsical scenes often featuring animals, fantastical creatures, and people within richly-lit scenes.

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Dibujante Nocturno

Francisco Garcés, otherwise known as Dibujante Nocturno, is a professional illustrator from the Canary Islands, Spain, who creates art with a dark aesthetic reminiscent of the drama of Greek epics. Specializing in the design of fantastical creatures, he is an extremely passionate artist with a love of the fantasy genre that has followed him since he was a young child. Creating personal work is something he has never stopped doing as he considers it fundamental to his wellbeing, and sees shari...

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Djamila Knopf

Djamila lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. Working as an illustrator for games and books until 2017, she one day had an epiphany and decided to dedicated herself to being an independent artist, concentrating on her own style of work. Primarily creating work digitally, Djamila was obsessed with fantasy and 90s anime, and her work today is an accumulation of these early influences.

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Eliza Ivanova (Eleeza)

A graduate of the California Institute of Arts, Bulgarian-born Eliza now lives in San Francisco where she created much of the art on these pages. She produces effortless movement with her sketched lines and animation-influenced dynamic touches. Well-known for her sensitive portraits and figures of women and children, Eliza’s style is distinctive and rich in detail. In addition to a gallery filled with a mix of old favorites, new creations, and bespoke commissions for this book, you will be i...

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Feefal

Hi everyone! My name is Linnea Kikuchi, although here on the internet I'm more commonly known as Feefal. I’m an illustrator from Sweden, and I have a passion for creating artwork that is rich in dreamlike elements, and combines feminine characteristics with a darker, more gritty edge. Another huge interest of mine is creating character designs based around everyday objects – whether it be a lamp, or a mushroom, or a telephone…!

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Frank Frazetta

Hailed as the "godfather of fantasy art", Frank Frazetta (1928–2010) had a profound influence on the genre with his powerful, visceral images. Featured widely across book covers, album sleeves, posters and comics, Frazetta's muscular warriors and sensual heroines made him an enduring icon of fantasy and sci-fi culture. Today his legacy is maintained by Frazetta Girls, founded by his daughter Holly and granddaughter Sara, ensuring that his work can be enjoyed for many years to come by fans new...

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Gretel Lusky

Gretel Lusky is an illustrator and comic book artist from Argentina, based in the UK. She illustrated her very first graphic novel Primer for DC Comics and worked on DC’s Flash Facts and IDW’s Marvel Action: Chillers, among others. Between freelancing, Gretel loves to work on her personal art, creating whimsical stories and colorful illustrations often inspired in nature, maritime imagery and fantasy characters. She has almost 900K followers on Instagram.

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Guweiz (Gu Zheng Wei)

Guweiz began drawing when he was seventeen, inspired by an anime art tutorial on YouTube. Discovering a natural passion for the genre, he continued to learn and draw, and quickly amassed a fanbase for his edgy art style. Throughout this book, readers will discover his artistic story from the very beginning, with behind-the-scenes details about how some of his most popular pieces were created. Guweiz reveals his secrets for turning external influences into truly original digital art, including...

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Heikala

Heikala’s artwork combines traditional watercolor painting and inks with a fresh, enchanting approach – fans love her charming characters and scenes that are largely influenced by Finnish and Japanese cultures. This, combined with the in-depth sharing of her processes and knowledge, has given Heikala a social media following of over 400,000 on Instagram alone; she also has growing audiences on Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter.

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Ira “Iraville” Sluyterman van Langeweyde

Ira “Iraville” Sluyterman van Langeweyde is a prolific Munich-based illustrator with a passion for watercolors. Her idyllic paintings of flora and fauna, travel scenes, home comforts, and autumnal landscapes are rendered with exquisite care, often using handmade pigments, creating a unique, picturesque world beloved by fans across the globe. She shares her expertise with her followers via her highly popular Instagram and YouTube accounts, as well as in-person painting workshops.

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Kelogsloops

Hieu Nguyen, known by many as Kelogsloops, is a popular mixed-media artist from Melbourne, Australia. His work showcases his love for both digital and watercolour painting, while blending influences from surreal-art styles and Japanese anime. Hieu exhibits his work in galleries all over the world, while also keeping up with his successful social-media presence, boasting an online fanbase of over two million. He has also worked with big companies such as Disney and Paramount Pictures.

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Laura Rubin

Award-winning digital artist Laura Rubin specializes in realistic portraits that fascinate with their emotion. Having drawn since she was a child, Laura studied digital art, film, and VFX at Zurich’s SAE Institute, but soon turned to drawing again. Her distinctive style of portraiture is created digitally using the industry-leading iPad software Procreate. Laura’s business combines client commissions and collaborations with selling her work, merchandise, tutorials, and digital resources.

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Loish

Lois van Baarle, best known as Loish, is an internationally renowned digital artist and character designer based in the Netherlands. With an enchanting signature style and ability to produce characters with depth and narrative, her talents have been acknowledged by big-name clients worldwide, including LEGO, Guerrilla Games, Amazon, EA, and Coca-Cola. After the release of her first two art books, Loish discovered her passion for sharing and teaching to demystify the digital art process, and a...

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Lord Gris

Lord Gris is a freelance artist, illustrator, and games-asset character designer from Portland, Oregon. Working mostly digitally, her art has attracted over 780K Instagram followers, and 1.5M likes on TikTok. She is highly active on both platforms, with her engaged following always looking out for her next reel or video. Working digitally using Procreate, and traditionally (her favourite medium is acrylics), her art covers a range of techniques that result in colorful and dynamic characters.

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Missupacey

Missupacey, otherwise known as Ashleigh Izienicki, is a popular illustrator and tattoo artist based in Los Angeles, California. Practiced in both digital and traditional mediums, Ashleigh is known for creating artwork that features dark and macabre themes balanced with a feminine influence.

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Pascal Campion

Raised in France, illustrator Pascal Campion studied Narrative Illustration at Ecole des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg. He has had roles in Hawaii as a commercial 2d artist and director, and senior visual artist in San Francisco. Pascal had an early role in the movie Klaus, helping to set the visual bible for the movie. Work in visual development includes movies Moana, Mr Peabody and Sherman, Penguins of Madagascar, and others. Pascal lives in LA, California with his wife and three children, ...

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Pernille Ørum

Pernille Ørum is a freelance illustrator and visual artist living in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has a degree in Character Animation from The Animation Workshop, a highly respected specialist animation university based in Denmark. Her clients include Disney Publishing, Nickelodeon Jr., Mattel, and DreamWorks and she was Lead Character Designer on Warner Brothers DC Superhero Girls. Pernille's influential links to the entertainment industry are apparent in her latest collaborative project illustr...

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Raide

Raide is a self-taught digital artist from Germany, with Portuguese roots, who has been creating art from a young age. She now has a big fanbase with over 400K followers on Instagram and has worked with big names such as Huion, ClipStudioPaint, and HarperCollins. Raide also runs a successful Domestika course that teaches students how to apply her coveted techniques in lighting, texture, and character design.

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Sam Yang

Sam Yang is a popular digital illustrator based in Toronto, Canada, who specialises in anime/manga-style character art, lighting, and expression. With an online presence boasting over 3 million followers collectively, Sam has captured the hearts and minds of fans new and old with his entertaining and informative online tutorials and process videos.

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Sibylline Meynet

Sibylline launched herself as a freelance illustrator straight out of high school in her native France, and now works as a comic artist, character designer, and illustrator for magazines and books. Her artwork features in abundance the girls and animals she loves to draw, characters who exude charm and whimsy as well as great narrative strength and depth. Behind her artwork is a career in film and print, on projects from Scoob! (Warner Bros.) and Garfield (BOOM! Studios), to Cursed and Orange...

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Simone Grünewald (Schmoe)

Simone Grünewald, also known as “Schmoe,” is a passionate illustrator and well-known art director, character designer, 2D animator, and key art storyboarder working in the games industry. She has a desire to create emotive designs that document her life, including the experiences of motherhood, in addition to her commercial work. Having followed the creative path all of her life, Simone has a wealth of knowledge in both traditional and digital art and shares her insights with her global audie...

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Simz

Simone “Simz” Ferriero is a freelance comic-book artist and illustrator from Italy. His modern-day witches and ghost cats have earned him a big online fanbase, with 345K followers on Instagram and popular accounts on Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. Simone’s main inspiration comes from American comics, anime, and manga, as well as his idyllic surroundings and artists from his hometown. In his debut book, The Art of Simz, Simone shares his experiences working as a full-time artist, including prof...

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