Michelle Kingdom embroiders tiny worlds, occupied by tiny people. Decidedly small in scale, her scenes are densely embroidered into compressed compositions. Using thread as a sketching tool, she simultaneously honors and undermines the tradition of needlework that came before her. Having studied fine art, she began drawing with thread...

"Art is the highest form of hope," reads Rhea Ornias' Instagram bio. "It was a quote from a German painter Gerhard Richter," she explained in an interview with I Love Illustration., stating that art comforts, elates, and defies. The Filipino-born, Australia-based fashion designer and artist draws portraits of women, shrouded...

Brooklyn-based manicurist and nail artist, Leanne Woodley, knows a thing or two about color. Her razor-sharp focus on design and color has allowed her to work with commercial and editorial clients such as i-D Magazine, L’Officiel USA, and Vogue Taiwan. Her nail art has also caught the attention of...

What's better than a water-bottle-sized cat? A water-bottle-sized cat named Merlin. The Instagram feline has amassed tens of thousands of followers thanks to his mystifying beauty, which includes milky bluish eyes (that are caused by his unfortunate blindness), and lush gray fur. His owners, Nathanial Green and Elliot Green,...

Bria Neff is a 13-year-old girl who paints animals and donates her artwork in order to help endangered animals around the world. This brave girl is also trying to inspire other kids around the world and raise environmental awareness. At the age of eight, when she didn’t even know what the...

Claudia Marie Lenart is an artist who worked with big brand names like Tiffany & Co. and Mociun. According to her bio, she has been a handwork artist since she was a little girl. She inherited her mom’s passion for sewing, crochet, knitting, and embroidery. Lenart says she was...

Nowadays, the art world is full of artists that offer interesting content, and to create something new which has never been seen before is really hard. However, one artist from New Zealand manages to do just that. Artist Meg Van Hale is a contemporary jeweler from Otepoti who creates jewelry inspired...

Francine is an art director and illustrator with experience in branding, TV production, and 360 campaigns. The Malaysian-born, Detroit-based artist loves watching movies, analyze them, and “have an incessantly annoying pleasure in guessing a movie’s plot within the first five minutes it started.” To make it more interesting, she...

Déborah is an artist better-known as Threeleaves on social media. According to her Instagram bio, she creates “fantasy and nature-inspired art” and is an interactive media designer and freelance illustrator based in Riaz, Switzerland. In her work, the 24-year-old artist mostly uses watercolors to create her artworks, however, she...

“What can be read from the human face?” Slovakia-based artist Miroslav Zgabaj tried to answer this question with his latest series of watercolor portraits. His paintings in soft blue and grey hues show people in their most vulnerable states of sadness, anger or loneliness. In this interesting project, Zgabaj is trying to explore how...