Sara is an illustrator from Portugal, she creates gorgeous female characters non stop ranging from princesses to demons, from warriors to mermaids and from magical-natural creatures to the common high school teenagers. Her style sports big eyes, characterizing noses and full lips all used to represent the inner nature and spirit of the woman really well. Something I really love is the creativity and beauty she gives to hair styles

Rachel is an illustrator from Spain, she loves to design both in digital and traditional medium female characters, animals, fantastic worlds and often enough puts them all together with high expertise. She mostly uses soft and tenuous colors and does it really well, there's always room for good contrast and nice pairings. One thing I noticed about her characters is that she uses the cheeks to gather the focus

Sarah is an illustrator from Scotland, she has a bachelor's degree in Animation and her artworks are really sweet! She co-founded Slide AR, which is an app artists can use to visualize their layered works in augmented reality, basically making them three dimensional and "alive". I really like her IG profile, it's refreshing and colorful! I do believe looking at the women she illustrates can bring me strength and raise self esteem, because they all always look calm, happy, beautiful and living a life without any problems.

June is an illustrator and designer based in Manila, Philippines. She works with both digital and traditional medium and always creates cuteness on top of art. Yeah I found out when I watch her profile I'm there thinking "awww that's sooo cute!" so many times that I can't speak of her without expressing this feeling. She has a way of designing things and characters, she colors them with delicate palettes, I don't know it's just overall her artworks are relaxing and calming.

Lora is an illustrator and storyteller from Zagreb, Croatia. Before we explore her artworks I would like to tell you how good her IG profile looks. So I don't usually focus much on it but this time I honestly hope you'll find the time to visit her feed and scroll through because she kept a coherent style and color palette all the way, and most of the times the artworks are woman portraits. This thing in the end makes for a wonderful feeling and look, the profile feels curated and to me it's just beautiful.

Maxine is an illustrator from Germany. If the first thing you think about when you hear the word "storytelling" is "words" or maybe someone that is "speaking" today you might get inspired to connect the word "illustrations" too. I say that because it's undeniable Maxine's artworks are so moving they're able to tell stories on their own. I'm not surprised the focus recently is on book covers, children's book illustrations and editorial illustrations since those are really the places where a good drawing can make the difference

Ayan is an illustrator based in Bangalore, India. He masters the digital world with ease after years in the field, his pieces are truly amazing and if you're into tech, card games, tabletop, videogames, fantasy games and such you'll find out pretty much everything he posts could very well be the art on any product coming from the "worlds" I listed and you like the most. I personally adore all the locations he makes

Andrey is a watercolorist sketcher from Ukraine. He likes to travel and for this post he sent me a few pictures of pieces he made after a visit to Italy (my country!). He says he likes Italy a lot so I'm very happy to showcase the paintings here and share with you all his amazing works and a little bit of my lands at the same time! I think he represents reality very well and he uses the medium to its full potential. On his profile you'll find a ton of sketches and most of them are made on location

Deborah is Korean American illustrator and graphic novelist and her way of coloring artworks is just stunning to me. I'm not even going to say how cool the drawings are, but the colors oh my. The brightness I see in her pieces is beautiful, she can pick non conventional tones to complete an illustration and make it look so natural and so good that I'm starting to question myself... why can't I see things this way in real life? On her profile you'll also find a lot of black and white pieces

Vanont is an illustrator and sketcher based in Bangkok, Thailand. In his profile he shares lots of paintings primarily done in a loose style (when watercolors don't define crisp shapes and edges but rather stay a bit blurry, I like it a lot by the way!). There isn't really a main subject as he goes for landscapes, cities, food, portraits, animals and whatever else! In his food paintings he usually takes a picture with the finished artwork alongside the reference