Masha is a freelance illustrator from Russia, she mostly works digitally and is not afraid to take on "big and articulate" paintings. She paints all sort of things but mainly it's about characters, people or animals, or both, doing something and living their everyday life. I said she takes on big projects because it's rare to see a flat background with a character on top, she is great at creating a welcoming environment defining and tuning up to the smallest of details. Which in turn means the illustrations take a lot of time but are packed full with cute "in theme" items or places.

Agathe is a young artist based in France, she loves to design characters and sometimes experiments with environments too. There a few traits you can find on her IG profile that I find interesting and unique. She often paints the characters on a flat background and gives them an accent on some part of the body, like a big chest, a super mobile spine, big hips, tiny lengs and so on.. It's a style I'm used to see in the movies and I like it. Her environment pieces sometimes come in groups, and I don't mean she does a few and posts them day by day, she actually creates a composition (usually black stripes divide the canvas) and matches them in the same pic, you'll see an example soon enough!

Adam is an artist from Australia with a huuuge experience, he started working at the age of 15 for Disney (one of the youngest ever) and his career from that point on has been just stellar, Lucasfilm, Dreamworks, Netflix among others.. If I think about my childhood and all the classic movies I watched like Aladdin, The Lion King, Bambi, The Little Mermaid and then I imagine he was part of all of them it's just incredible. He shares Welly's Wonders with his wife (the link is below!)

Geneviève is an artist who traveled the world following her art, she's now based in Montreal and has a fondness for pastels and color pencils. Her profile is a refreshing view and nowadays almost an original choice if you will, I love to see it and I think all the colors and the textures I get to see there are stunning. Her style is perfect for children's books and I'm really glad and happy she was able to publish her own titles, I'm sure it has to be sensational to see your own artworks and stories in a real life book and think children around the world will grow up with them... or fall asleep!

Anastasia is an artist originally from Russia, now based in Germany. During her career she worked on plenty of books and covers and I think her style is really perfect for those kind of projects. Among other things I really enjoy her character paintings and all the times she puts an animal on the canvas. Actually there are some animal stickers that look sooooo good if you like those definitely check out her IG profile, it's not even only about animals they're kind of a big part but in a whimsical world full of cute little pets there are also objects and decorations

Suri is an artist from Germany, she works with digital and traditional mediums drawing and painting stunning portraits of women of all sorts. The most intriguing part of all her artworks are the complicate and intricate textures she creates sometimes using tattoos or just clothings. She ranges from simple and clean shapes to articulate and "a million lines" kinda things and I don't know how but they always seem to fit perfectly no matter which kind she goes for. I appreciate the high amount of pencil and ink art on her profile, her style is fantastic. Also the fact that she keeps switching medium like it's nothing always coming up with something beautiful.