Graphics

Mike Nesbitt, traditional and graphic artist. Nesbitt's primary inspirations are from wrestling, video games (Street Fighter, Samurai Showdown, and Soul Caliber) comics (Batman and Spider Man) and manga (One Piece, Naruto, and Trigun).  Nesbitt's professional work tends towards video game character cards, executed in Photoshop. Although, Nesbitt has taken commissions that are usually just fan art requests or full shots of original characters.

Nesbitt's work is generally Photoshop paintings of characters, either in cell shading or realistic shading.

Although Nesbitt usually only does single character vertical layouts, there are a few examples of a break in his standard.

To see more of Nesbitt's work, go to: http://vashperado.deviantart.com/

Wild

Arden Ellen Nixon, traditional artist known for her colorful paintings. Her primary medium is acrylic paint, followed by water colors. Nixon's gallery has a great number of paintings which generally focus around a person or wild animal. Her works reflect her love of fantasy, mythology, history, and life in general. Select paintings also really display her sense of humor, and a small collection of Alice in Wonderland works give one an idea of her slight obsession for it.

Her most known works generally contain a very powerful portrait of a wild animal (generally a wild cat).

It is assumed that if there is a wild animal missing from her gallery, it is from the lack of time to do it. However Nixon doesn't restrict herself to only painting animals, she also paints portraits of people, lone or in a group.

To see more of Nixon's work, visit: http://www.ardenellennixon.com/  or http://merensheritra.deviantart.com/

Watercolor?

Alice X Zhang, digital artist and amateur illustrator. Ms. Zhang has an amazing gallery full of digital fan art of Disney, Spirited Away, Twilight, Avatar, and Harry Potter characters. While some people do not always consider fan art actual art, Ms. Zhang's beautifully crafted replicas of the characters are not simply an attempt to directly replicate the characters and scenes, but to capture and recreate the characters with her own flare. For example, the following is a quick painting, done in photoshop:

Obviously, Ms. Zhang's gallery is not solely fan art. Ms. Zhang's work highly resembles that which would be done in traditional media.

Her original designs have been turned into T-shirt designs, like:

To find more of Ms. Zhang's work, visit: http://alicexz.deviantart.com/ 

(If you are interested in getting a T-shirt, Ms. Zhang has a section in her gallery specifically for T-shirt designs. All of the works in that section have links on where to purchase said shirts.)

I Can Has Kittens Please

Lisa Sweet is a photographer from the United States who primarily focuses on cats, people, and stereotypes. The shots Sweet manages to get of cats are them really at their cutest and most adorable it seems.

The pictures that she takes of people vary from portraits to full body shots. Sweet captures people both for the beauty of humans as they are, but also to be used in the message she would like to convey. These messages seem to be her take or approach on a certain stereotype or stereotyped phrase which she manages to sum up and convey her thoughts in one single picture.

Ms. Sweet has often uses stage blood, as seen in the picture above, in the pictures she has taken of people. There is a definitely strange duality between her adorable cat obsession and her more serious, and much less adorable, works.

To see more, visit: http://fangedfem.deviantart.com/

Knite

Wenqing Yan, also known as Yuumei Yan, is a digital artist making her way into flash comics and animation. The majority of Yan's work focuses on a primary subject with either no background or little, but wonderfully executed background. Yan's flash work has a distinct style that allows her digital work to resemble or reflect the textures and colors of watercolor.

The image above is a promotional poster for Yan's flash comic, Knite. Knite, proceeded by the oneshot flash comic "1000 Words," is an interesting and amazing comic for multiple reasons. Because it is  flash comic, it differs from the majority of comics in the way that its read. The art on each page of the comic is beautifully drawn, colored, and textured. The storyline feels personal and is highly original.

An example of one of her original characters:

An example of her aptitude for traditional media:

To see more, visit: http://yuumei.deviantart.com/