Schoolism teacher Jason Seiler is an award winning artist with a humorous style and sound technique. His portraits capture ‘that special something’ which makes them intriguing and engaging. Jason’s clients make for an impressive list and include Time Magazine, Penguin Group, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. To see more visit his excellent website and his agent’s, Richard Solomon. I love that Susan Boyle piece!

Isabel Seliger was born in Germany, 1984. She studied Illustration and Comics at the School of Art & Design Kassel and she is now taking commissions. Her work can be quite intricate and a little abstract at times, and she tackles some interesting topics in her work (dwarf portraits intrigued me…) She has been interviewed over at Light Grey Art Lab, if you’d like to read a little more about her.

I stumbled upon Justin’s blog today (and I think I looked through every page). He is currently working at Disney Studios, and he also creates a lot of fun illustrated work in his spare time. I really like his background art, which is simple, yet beautiful. You’ll also find on his blog some comic strips, character design, illustrated skateboards and the list goes on. Super talent, and extremely inspiring.

Note: Interestingly, we previously featured Justin’s brother Josh on The Lounge.

Canadian illustrator Koyamori creates some superb watercolours full of fantasy and imagination. It’s so easy to get lost in the worlds she creates…I’d love to see her make a book for children. If you’d like to buy original art prints of her watercolour paintings, see here.

Student of the famous Gobelins School, Rémy Schaepman, whilst studying produced two outstanding short animations. The first Dodudindon, produced for Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and the second is the prize-winning Three dots. He has great versatility, displaying a range of accomplished styles both in his animations and personal work. To see more of his work, head over to his website.

Illustrator and designer Jovo Ve was born in Macedonia, although moved Göteborg, Sweden when he was very young. Studying both Art and Visual History at Göteborgs University and then Visual Communication at Linnaeus University. Working as a freelance illustrator and Art Director his clients include Moleskine and Adidas. Mr. Ve’s style is brash, very often using flat colour and bold lines, depicting hip and sexy females. See more of his work by popping over to his art blog, Painted Numbers.

Yasunari Awazu is a Tokyo-based fashion illustrator. Beginning her career in 2008, she has exhibited her work twice including a solo Exhibition in 2010, titled Yasunari Awazu Presense. With a host of clients, including magazines FRaU, VOCE, domani, and department stores Seibu, and Sogo. Awazu’s work is very poetic, letting the brush run free on the page and leaving in colour bleeds and splats. I think I am much more taken by her looser style than when she tightens ups, but both are equally skilled. You can see more of Awazu’s work on her website.