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Nik van Es

Nik van Es is an illustrator from Utrecht whose recent work has a restless, off-register quality.

Nicole Gustafsson paints angular planets and crystalline ecosystems in Acryla Gouache, applied directly onto wood panel.

Mateo Pizarro's Micro-Barroque drawings: a dense crowd ringing rising dust, and a galaxy, each no bigger than a match.

LA illustrator James R. Eads paints multicoloured, psychedelic scenes that pulse with swirling pattern and a heavy debt to music.

Minnesota animator Anna Taberko's kaleidoscopic loops morph flowers, seed pods and butterflies into self-sustaining cycles.

London illustration duo Cachetejack work in flat geometric colour — big coats, bold shapes and figures caught mid-stride.

Rome illustrator Andrea Chronopoulos crams his scenes with detail and jokes — thick black outlines, saturated colour and circular insets doing the…

Joe Freedman's DuoGraph is a seven-gear drawing machine that turns a handful of adjustable parameters into endless geometric figures.

Camellie is an illustrator born on the shores of the Danube in Romania who has freelanced for seven years while travelling for inspiration.

Latvian illustrator Alex Konahin builds dog portraits from pure filigree — black-and-white ink drawings where every strand of fur is scrollwork.

Christian Watson draws miniature ink landscapes on the tips of pencils — log cabins, lighthouses and animals under half an inch tall.