RENEE SALIM

Renée lives in Sheffield, UK and studied graphics and illustration at a specialised fine art college in Wales. She loves to draw whimsical portraits with bright colours. She is inspired by pop culture and music, and much of her earlier work is heavily influenced by her love of Japanese culture. She currently works full time whilst managing an etsy shop and commission work on the side, but one day hopes to make her art her full time job as a freelance illustrator.

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ReneeIllustration

ReneeIllustrations@hotmail.com 

SAMANTHA SHUMAKER

Samantha Shumaker is a Panamanian-American artist born in Texas in 1993. She began her career as a visual artist in Orlando, Florida after watching a handful of YouTube tutorials on oil painting techniques and was inspired to emulate the individuals who dedicated their lives to the creation process. Through practice and dedication she found herself entranced with painting strong and powerful yet delicately ethereal subjects. These paintings are brought to life with electrifying cotton candy color palettes and fluid dream-like compositions in a new contemporary style. Her love of experimentation has led her to dynamic bouts of painting larger than life in the form of murals, sculptural paintings and story telling through video. She seeks to build a community by using her story and work to inspire others, both online through her YouTube videos and locally at art functions.

www.shumakerart.com/about

ELIS ZILL

Elis Zill is an Illustrator ,Story & Comic book artist. Graduated in Animation,but what she loves doing the most is drawing Comics. Since 2013 she's been working doing Character Design, Comic, Storyboard & Illustrations for different Studios & Editorial around the world. These past 2 years she has worked in the Animation industry for Disney. At present,she is working as a Freelance Storyboard Artist & Comic book artist along with personal projects.

https://linktr.ee/eliszill

HAYLEY CASSATT

Hayley Cassatt is a Portland-based Artist, Illustrator and Creator.  She graduated with a BFA from CalArts in Valencia, California, in 2006.  She works mainly with watercolor, gouache and ink - but has known to dabble in acrylic, polymer clay and resin. 

Hayley currently works in freelance illustration, window painting for local small businesses, and also manages an online store for prints and jewelry. 

Her fascination with narwhals sparked in 2008 when she discovered that their existence, though magical, is very real.  She felt compelled to make them the focus of her illustrations, and has been incorporating more creatures ever since.

https://www.hayleycassatt.com/

BEN AVLIS

BEN AVLiS is a self-taught semi-human art mammal lurking somewhere within the old textile mills of Fall River, MA where he co-owns/operates the MiLLBiLLY Art Studio established in 2008. There he works full-time with his imagination while experimenting with various mediums such as: drawing, painting, airbrushing, sculpture, digital art, animation, resin casting, and screen printing. 

His role in the art realm is to sustain the process of creation while continuing to utilize "life" as the source of inspiration.

www.etsy.com/shop/BENAVLIS

BETTY STOUMBOS

Betty is a 'mostly' self taught artist who has been creating one way or another her whole life. Over the years she has dabbled in photography, watercolor, acrylic, but it was love at first sight when she discovered mixed media. Her favorite thing to do is create a background with lots of texture, and then paint one of my whimsical characters, mostly girls, over top. Betty's style is ever evolving and you never know what will show up next!

https://www.instagram.com/pinkglitterfae

KATIE ERWIN

Although she plans on majoring in marketing at college, Katie Erwin hopes to eventually incorporate her love for art into career fields such as editorial advertising and illustration. Using marketing strategies and business management skills, she has managed to start her own business selling original art and customizing others’ personal belongings on Instagram as a high school senior. Working on this book with so many other talented artists has shown her that art will always be interesting as long as people aren’t afraid to interpret and display their perspectives to an audience.

https://www.instagram.com/katiejerwin/

BRYCE DARROW

Bryce Darrow is a fine artist living in Laguna Beach, California. With more than ten years of experience he delivers unique encapsulations of life both figurative and abstract focusing predominantly on portraiture. His main disciplines are drawing and painting. He is currently enrolled at Laguna College of Art + Design earning a BFA.

https://www.brycedarrow.com/