Céline Gobinet grew up in the countryside, in the east of France. She studied art for two years before she started the Gobelins' animation school in Paris in 1995 and graduated in 1997. She now works as a storyboard artist on many animated series (Pirate family, Funny little bugs, Robot Boy, the amazing world of Gumball...).

Most of her time is spent on work , but there's still a little room for music and personnal drawings and paintings... "Things just have to be done as fast as can be!" she sais.

She loves using felt pens, acrylic and water colors, but today, most of her work is digital.

http://cgobinet.blogspot.com

Comics illustrator, self-taught, he publishes drawings in Comisc Magazine (Bucharest). He's favorite subjects are the superheroes (Spider Man, Captain America, Jocker, Margelatu' and also Kinoman!), that he draws in a personal manner. Besides the traditional drawing, Valentin paints on t-shirts and started to make whiteboard animation. And he keeps dicovering...

desenesischite.blogspot.ro
http://www.facebook.com/WardTShirts?ref=hl

Born and raised in Istanbul/ Turkey, Tuna currently resides and works in Los Angeles. As a visual development artist, her work is used across a variety of platforms including commercials, games, animation and gallery work. She loves the smell of fresh laundry.

http://tunabora.com/

Tomoki Momozono, otherwise known as "Momo",  is a photographer based in London, originally from Chiba, Japan.

He started his career as a sport photographer in 2001, and since then he has captured a lot of sport scenes being published in magazines in Japan. One of his personal series called Art of Sumo has been highly appreciated among the creators throughout the world.

He also specializes in portraiture and street photography (you can find his work in his photo blog).

http://be.net/momozonophotography

Taylor Callery is a 29 year old illustrator, from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (USA).

His designs combine traditional and digital skills.

His portfolio includes collaborations with The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Billboard Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Progressive, Toronto Life, Report on Business, Dirt Rag Magazine, and more.

Philosophy: Stay Humble, work harder than you ever have, and stay true to yourself.

http://tcalleryillustration.com/home.html

Sakiroo is a graphic artist with a focus on character design. Although based out Korea, he works as a freelancer with clients from around the world. His global popularity without a doubt stems from his versatility in design; his character designs exhibit sometimes simple, sometimes fine detail, as well as a range of colors that goes from soft to whimsical. Some of Sakiroo's latest projects include designs for clients such as ESPN, Adobe, KTF, HITE, Dominos and SK.

http://sakiroo.com

http://behance.net/sakiroo

Rik's me, Riccardo Guasco

He is an Italian painter and illustrator. He's interested in the research the lightness of shapes and the chromatic heat, working with few colors and a simple line.

"I love the red, black, white and gold, Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, and carefree bicycles."

www.riccardoguasco.com

www.mumblerik.blogspot.com

Paul Virlan is a Romanian illustrator and graphic-designer. He lives in Iasi and studies Graphic Design at the George Enescu University of Arts. He worked with several companies from Romania, Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, Australia, USA, Great Britain.
"As illustrator, I like recounting about my self and about the people I see every day. I love the traditional manner/technics in arts, and I'm a fan of the Expressionism". Although Paul exhibits mostly digital works (in Iasi and online), he likes also to draw, sketch, and paint. And his future plans include animations, films and exhibitions.

Website: http://www.paulvirlan.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/virlanpaul
Behance:  https://www.behance.net/MrPol
Carbonmade: https://carbonmade.com/3222481/specialties

Papriko, Ink. is a small multi-disciplinary design and art studio based in Switzerland and Japan consisting of Philipp Kaeser (aka mr. Papriko) and Giuseppe Guarino.

They focus on communication design projects in the fields of character design, Illustration, advertising, websites, brand development, murals, paintings, animation and cartooning.

They've worked for a variety of clients from individuals to large companies, recent clients include KIKS TYO, Sony Music Japan, Johnny's, Dragon Alliance, JAGDA and more.

Their artworks were also featured in group shows in european cities aswell as in Taipei, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

www.papriko.com

Nadia Karroue is an illustrator currently living and working in Budapest, Hungary.

She has worked on various videogames and is currently exploring sequential art. She is mostly inspired by pop culture and her real life adventures.

She hopes someday she'll be the proud owner of a robotic raptor large enough to ride on. If you have one for sale, please contact her.

http://vg-heart.com/

Motomichi is an artist of Japanese origin, living and working in Brooklyn - New York. He makes animations, flash games, paintings and he performs as a VJ.

Motomichi's art work, whether it's for a music video, a canvas painting or a VJ performance, focuses on a character or set of characters as its main element. The characters can be mythical creatures, most often cryptozoological animals or monsters, or if human, they appear expressionless, robotic or otherwise disturbingly disattached from their surroundings. Since the atmospheric and story-telling qualities of the final art work will be depending on the strength and presence of this main character(s) Motomichi takes great care into creating each of these unique creatures.

His work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil, Winzavod – Moscow Contemporary Art Center and he has performed as a Vj at MOMA in New York, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Edinburgh International FIlm Festival as well as participated in film festival screening at Sundance, Onedotzero, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Holland Animation Film Festival and Kinofest International Digital Film Festival.

http://www.motomichi.com

Michał Dziekan is a polish based illustrator, designer and animation director, currently living in Warsaw.

In his many social themed illustrations he shows the problems of our modern society, and he does that with a sense of irony and black humor.

Besides illustration, Michal creats music videos in his free time - the other "great love", as he sais.

Here is one of his creations.

http://www.michaldziekan.com

Lorelei Herrera, born 23/11/1982 in Panama. I studied fine arts at the European School of Image of Angoulême, France. Once graduated, I have been working at the Comic strip center of Helsinki, Finland, and then came back to France where I now live and work. Some of my works have been published in Kuti kuti, Modern Spleen, Ufoja Lahdessa, Kultur&Gespenster.

www.macamob.com

Kristy Anne Ligones a.k.a KDLIG is a filipino artists, who has been living in Dubai for a year, working as an illustrator for a multi-national ad agency. She has been known for her skills on digital art, but apart from that, she has been going back to her roots, reviving her love for Painting.

"One of the highlights of her career was being chosen by Nike to produce a poster of Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao for the Nike Trainer 1.2, All-for-One exhibit, in NikeTown New York, along with other 9 artists around the world. Aside from Dubai, her works have been exhibited in the Philippines, New York, California, Arizona, and in Barcelona and had also been featured in various websites, magazines and books. You can check out more of her stuff here www.kdlig.com and www.behance.net/kdlig.

Jordi Villaverde (a 28 year old illustrator from Barcelona) studied comic and illustration for 5 years in JOSO School. He worked on advertising, some editorial works, children's books and some comic projects.

Although most part of Jordi's work is digital (pencil and color), the traditional technics also attract him: "someday I'd like to have more time to experiment with acrylics, watercolors, inks..."

http://jordivilla.blogspot.com/

Fil is 27 years old, a Russian illustrator working worldwide.

He was born in a Far Eastern artists' family. His father worked as an illustrator in a local publishing house. When he was about 4 years old, he draw for some children books. Those have been his first commissions.

He studied Fine Arts and Graphic Design in Far Eastern Humanitarian University. He loved to study colors, loved drawing every single day, a fact that made him give up the graphic designer job.

In the last three years he worked as a freelancer, and, although he's just at the beginning of his career, he worked for Wrigley, McDonald's, Heinz, Kinder, Bounty, Danone, Beeline, Panasonic, Cosmopolitan, Henkel and with the biggest advertsising agencies worldwide like BBDO, DDB, Lowe Adventa, Saatchi & Saatchi, etc.

Fil also practice yoga and he likes being a pro-bono yoga instructor.

http://www.dunsky.ru/

Erick Oh is an artist of Korean origin, living and working in California. His independent films have been introduced and nominated at Student Academy Awards, Annecy Animation Festival, Hiroshima Animation Festival, Zagreb Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH, Anima Mundi, Ars Electronica, Kinofest International Digital Film Festival and numerous other film festivals.

He spent most of his life in Korea where he started producing a variety of work, in which the boundaries were blurred between media and contents. Even though it is in animation where Erick feels most comfortable as his main tool to communicate and interact with the viewer, he would not consider himself merely as a film maker but as an artist who continues trying to expand the definition of animation and art.

Erick usually produces numerous illustrations as his idea sketch. In his drawing, he often uses certain key words and metaphors such as heart, fish, clock, apple and caterpillar to support his story with very limited colors and abstract images. Through calligraphic water color touch and simplified figures, Erick creates surreal yet beautiful world where all the pain, love, dream, youth and death exist. Erick says that the whole film, the whole image should be a question which gives viewer to think about life.

http://www.erickoh.com/

Romanian illustrator and graphic designer, he studied fine arts – graphic design at University of West, Timişoara (Romania).

His portfolio includes illustrations for magazines (Cosplay Gen, Helion, Sunete, Mecha Revolutions, etc), comics, music albums (Lemmy Caution "Vifor", Furnici Coapte "2012", etc ), books (Ciprian Homorodean "Take the Book, Take the Money, Run!", Ciprian Muresean "Auto-da-fe", etc), collaborations in advertisement (ISEE-shooting science, Firestarter-Brasov) and animation (Genius studios- Timisoara) group exhibitions and collaborations with other artists in artistic groups such as Biserica (The Church) – Timişoara.

http://dinauntru.blogspot.com/

Atelier Olschinsky, founded in 2002 is a small creative studio based in Vienna, Austria. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction. In addition to their jobs for clients they also run several independent projects, always trying to develop and refine their work.

"It is just so important to work as much as you can, to learn and to be open to new things. The journey is the award."

www.olschinsky.at

www.nevertheless.at

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atelier-Olschinsky/131210503588901?v=wall

Andy Council is an artist, maker and illustrator based in Bristol, UK. His work takes inspiration from the city and other urban landscapes and is a highly individual, detailed amalgamation of architecture, structure and character. Creatures, usually dinosaurs, are made up of smaller components such as buildings, landmarks, cars and tanks. His work is mostly drawing based, but he is also a very active artist in Bristol's Street Art scene producing large scale spray painted murals of his beasts. His work also takes the form of painting, multimedia and sculpture.

www.andycouncil.co.uk

Character artist, born in 1972, and studied media-designs at IAMAS in Japan. After winning a 2001 MILIA award in Cannes France, he worked at the French creative design studio CHMAN (2001 – 2003).

Today, Oishi is an independent artist as the best known of his simple character smile. Starting his career at the solo exhibition in YCAM in Japan 2005, he has created a mascot for the big art festival VERY FUN PARK in Taiwan 2007, animations for major TV projects such as Coca-Cola Japan commercial and Nickelodeon's Yo Gabba Gabba USA. And giving guest lectures at the Pictoplasma character festivals in New York (2008) and Berlin (2009).

http://www.aki-air.com

http://www.facebook.com/akinori.oishi.art

Aaron Thai is a London based animator. He loves animations. Love to draw. Love to paint. Love to spray paint on walls. Love sculpting. Love sketchbooks. Love to carry one anywhere he goes. Love to sketch randomly anytime. Love books. Love magazines. Love digital. Love analog. And he loves to enter design competitions, for fun : )

http://aaronthai.com

Aaron Spurgeon is drawing since childhood and started entering art competitions at 18. He studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, with emphasis on Entertainment Art. He is currently freelancing and selling art at arts and craft shows in Southern California (most recently worked for Disney Publishing).

"I love painting with gouache and watercolor but most of the work I do is in photoshop because it's what the industry calls for".

http://www.spurgeonart.com/

http://spurgeonart.wordpress.com/