Hélène Havard is a French fine-art and travel photographer who grew up in France, lived in England and Canada, and now resides in French Polynesia, where she also runs a separate wedding photography business.

Havard’s signature style uses soft, muted pastel color grading to give her images a vintage, dreamlike, almost nostalgic quality — as if capturing a place both in the present and in memory at once. She describes pastel tones as evoking tranquility and romance, deliberately transporting viewers into a gentler, more serene version of the world. Her ongoing series include Pacifica, The Quiet Season, Pacific Insomnia, and Out of Time, all exploring how specific places shape identity and memory.

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Daytoner is Daniel Hahn, a concept artist whose credits include Epic Games, Bungie, Universal, Blur Entertainment, Archetype Entertainment, The Mill, and Otherside.

Hahn’s passion for art grew out of obsessive sketching and graffiti in his youth, which evolved into a career designing mechs, robots, and sci-fi characters for major entertainment studios. His signature focus is mecha and robot design — his portfolio includes detailed “mech portraits” compiled into his own art book, and pieces like “X4N,” a sci-fi character built to balance power, mobility, and a clean, futuristic silhouette.

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Chou Mo is a Taiwan-based fashion photographer known for muted tones and striking visual narratives, with editorial clients including Vogue Taiwan, Louis Vuitton, and Shiseido.

Chou Mo’s recent work includes a Louis Vuitton project for PhotoVogue’s “The Spirit of Travel” series, titled “CROSSING / 23°51’N, 120°55’E,” created for Louis Vuitton’s 130th Monogram anniversary. Shot at Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan, the project uses the symbol of a “door” as an entry point into different cultures, weaving in imagery like bamboo-woven sunflowers referencing the Thao indigenous people’s sun symbolism, mirrored metal spheres representing the moon and technology, and fish baskets tied to the lake’s traditions. Chou Mo described wanting to capture “the mixed vitality unique to Taiwanese streets” — the layered, chaotic richness found in everyday scenes like Taipei 101, traditional temples, and night market culture.

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Josh White is a digital artist who describes himself simply as “learning by doing,” building most of his work with Nomad Sculpt on iPad and painting it in Procreateю

White’s process is distinctive: he sculpts scenes and objects in 3D using Nomad Sculpt and Feather 3D, then paints directly over the resulting renders in apps like Artstudio Pro, Procreate, Heavypaint, and Infinite Painter, blending sculptural form with painterly texture and light. Pieces like “Quiet City” and “Power Tower” started as rough 3D sketches before being reworked into finished, painterly sci-fi and concept-art scenes, while “Moonrise” began as still renders later assembled into an animation.

His subject matter leans heavily sci-fi and concept-art focused — vehicles in motion, dramatic architecture, atmospheric skies, and speculative machinery — captured in pieces like “Canyon Chase,” “First Launch,” and “Waiting for Orders.” He regularly shares full timelapses and close-up breakdowns of his pieces, treating his Instagram as both a portfolio and an open, in-progress record of his learning process across different digital-art tools.

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David Díez is a Spanish illustrator and draftsman from Salamanca.

Díez specializes in detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations of robots, cyborgs, and creatures that blend cyberpunk, steampunk, and what he playfully calls “licantropunk” aesthetics — a personal mashup of werewolf mythology and punk machinery. His work often depicts intricate mechanical dragons, alien cyberpunk figures, and other hybrid creature-machine designs rendered with dense linework and traditional media rather than purely digital tools. He also produces instructional content on his YouTube channel focused on teaching others how to draw robots and related steampunk/cyberpunk subjects.

Díez has published a dedicated art book featuring 35 original full-color illustrations in traditional ink and watercolor, all centered on cyberpunk and steampunk-style robots — a compilation of his signature visual universe.

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Roberto Giacomucci is an Italian architect and designer from Ancona.

Giacomucci built his professional career as an architect and industrial designer, founding Studio Giacomucci Design in 1994. He has collaborated with major galleries and design houses including Rossana Orlandi in Milan, Fragile Milano, Mint London, Matter of Stuff London, Bontempi, and TOOY, creating limited-edition furniture and lighting pieces such as the Bilancella and Quadrante lamp collections for TOOY, which translate light into precise geometric gestures. He has also taught for years at the University of Architecture and Design in Ascoli and holds a philosophy that design should be “estroso, ironico, ma concreto” — inventive and witty, but never impractically visionary.

Beyond commercial design, Giacomucci has developed a distinct contemporary art practice under his own name, exploring what he calls “Dynamic Forces” and “Hypernature” — works that sit at a metaphysical crossroads between volume and material. His paintings frame chemical reactions and spontaneous, random-effect patterns, treating matter almost like a “cellular lexicon” bridging the microscopic and the cosmic. His sculptures extend this chromatic chemistry into three dimensions, balancing pure color against gravitational force — work he frames as a dialogue between “pictorial explosion and sculptural implosion,” tied philosophically to Leopardi’s meditations on infinity and finiteness. One notable piece, “Forces,” embodies this directly: Giacomucci depicts himself as a black arrow, the central actor whose physical force triggers the material’s transformation.

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Kapi Michalska is a graphic designer and expressive portrait painter based in Szczecin, Poland, working primarily in Procreate.

Michalska’s signature style layers semi-realistic facial features with bold, abstract shapes and colorful, expressive brushwork, so the shapes she draws don’t just decorate a portrait but actively bring new meaning to it. Her subjects range from portraits of real people, including a piece named “Minerva” inspired by a Polish art historian’s balaclava selfie, to pieces about inner emotional states, like “Finding Inner Strength,” which she describes as speaking to a woman’s process of recovery. Her work has been described as bold, colorful, and focus-capturing, distinguished by how the abstract elements complement rather than obscure the underlying image.

She’s thoughtful about the ethics of drawing inspiration from real people online — in one post she explained she asks permission before turning someone’s social media photo into a portrait, while openly wondering aloud whether public posting should be treated as an implicit invitation for artistic reinterpretation. Her art has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the ALEF Cilento Festival in Italy and displays in Naples and Pescocostanzo.

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Eli McMullen is a multidisciplinary painter and muralist based in Richmond, Virginia, who earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. He co-founded Endeavor Studios, a grassroots artist-run space in Richmond’s Jackson Ward arts district that hosted First Friday exhibitions and music events.

McMullen’s paintings fuse realistic architecture and scenery with abstract shapes, glowing geometric forms, and unnatural light, creating surreal nightscapes devoid of human figures yet full of evidence that people once passed through. He describes his process as taking real elements from his environment — architecture, light, and feeling — and remixing them into imagined landscapes, calling it “an abstract shuffle of the elements.” Much of his imagery comes from documenting Richmond’s neighborhoods by bicycle, chasing shifting sunlight and stumbling into unexpected moments that later resurface as ethereal structures immersed in wilderness.

His acrylic and gouache works have been described as glowing with “dreamy nostalgia,” with neon light emerging from dark, moody scenes like winks from a higher consciousness. His art has appeared at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Glave Kocen Gallery, Black Iris Gallery, Talon Gallery, Lump Gallery, and in publications including Hi-Fructose Magazine, Richmond Magazine, and The Washington Post.

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Witchaya “Mean” Jingjit is a Thai architect and speculative designer, currently working as a Senior Designer at Zaha Hadid Architects in London, after previously holding a senior role at Coop Himmelblau.

Jingjit earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, studying under Hani Rashid and other tutors, where his thesis work explored ambitious, technology-driven urban futures. His project “Mechanomorph (Hydro)City – The Future of Bangkok” proposed a symbiotic urban system merging nature and technology to protect Bangkok from rising flood risk, while another Vienna project reimagined transport infrastructure inspired by the Norse mythological tree Yggdrasil.

His speculative, visionary streak extends into digital rendering as well: his image “Finding a New Land,” depicting an astronaut discovering new territory in a dystopian, post-human world, was recognized in the 2021 Arch Out Loud “Render of the Year” awards. More recent posts on his account explore ideas like how a bridge across Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River could evolve into a cultural landmark, continuing his pattern of blending infrastructure, culture, and speculative futures.

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Amir Zand is an Iranian-Turkish digital artist and senior concept artist, born September 27, 1990, now based in Paris after years working out of Istanbul.

Zand’s career began at age 22 when an indie author discovered his work on DeviantArt and commissioned a book cover — a break that unexpectedly opened doors to major franchises. Over the past decade he has designed more than 50-75 book covers and created illustrations for Dune, Star Wars, Warhammer 40K, Halo, Mortal Engines, and The Wandering Earth, working with publishers like Tor Books, Macmillan, and Games Workshop’s Black Library. In 2017 he expanded into concept art for animation and video games, taking on clients such as Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft, Disney, Psyop, Axis Animation, DreamWorks TV, and Quantic Dream, and he has spent six years contributing to the visual development of Star Wars Eclipse.

His style blends traditional painting sensibilities with digital technique, producing surreal, futuristic landscapes populated by solitary, mysterious figures — imagery that evokes suspension and anticipation rather than action. His accolades include three features in the Spectrum Fantastic Art annual and a spot on the Japan Illustrators’ Association’s “100 Most Attractive Illustrators” list in 2020.

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Matías Vivanco Brellenthin is a 3D digital artist and director from Santiago, Chile. He specializes in surreal sci-fi and fantasy imagery built entirely in Blender, and has worked with clients including Nissan, NVIDIA, Lil Nas X, and TCHAMI.

Brellias started in 2017 making posters purely to practice color and composition, and has since developed a distinctive visual signature dominated by pink, blue, and especially purple — a color he chose specifically because it represents the resolution of conflict, “the merging of red and blue, bad and good, the warm in the cold and the cold in the warm.” His recurring themes are emotions, nostalgia, human connection, nature, and abandonment, often expressed through impossible, physics-defying compositions that mix everyday objects with fantastical, dreamlike settings — his NVIDIA-featured piece “Estrellitas” (“little stars”), for example, shows a young girl holding stars in her hand with a conflicted expression, exploring the joy and pain that come with curiosity.

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His style is frequently described as blending vaporwave and cyberpunk aesthetics, and he works primarily in Blender and Photoshop, publishing new conceptual pieces on a near-weekly basis for album covers, films, music videos, and personal projects. Beyond his own art, Brellias teaches 3D illustration through a Domestika course, “Fantastic 3D Illustration with Blender,” and has been featured alongside major digital-art names like Beeple and Fvckrender in showcases of contemporary CGI art.

Steve McDonald is an award-winning Canadian illustrator, a founding member of the artist collective Drawnonward, and an international bestselling author with Chronicle Books, now working at the intersection of traditional illustration and AI-assisted art.

McDonald graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 1992 and spent two decades with Drawnonward, a Canadian collective whose work was the subject of two CBC documentaries and the Genie-nominated film “Seven Painters, Seven Places.” Between 2015 and 2017 he created over 350 drawings for Chronicle Books’ “Fantastic” coloring book series (Fantastic Cities, Structures, Collections, Planet, and Machines), which became an international bestseller published in more than 30 countries — Fantastic Cities alone sold over half a million copies and is considered one of the first modern adult coloring books. His detailed, densely-lined architectural and landscape fantasy work has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Architectural Digest, and CBS Sunday Morning, and he describes his influences as ranging from Moebius and Hayao Miyazaki to Norman Rockwell and Frank Frazetta.

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In recent years McDonald has openly embraced AI as part of his toolkit, blending custom diffusion models, Midjourney rendering, and hand-painted Photoshop work into what he calls “old-school art with new-school tools” — while positioning himself as “pro-artist” rather than simply pro-AI, emphasizing consent, credit, and compensation for creators as the technology spreads. He’s also a Pixar guest instructor and runs recurring illustration and AI-image-crafting courses, alongside a satirical illustration series critiquing wealth and celebrity culture.

Matt Dixon is a UK-based freelance illustrator and concept artist who has worked in the video games industry since 1988, with credits including Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Electronic Arts, and Blizzard Entertainment.

Dixon is best known professionally for his colorful, over-the-top card art — his style has become closely associated with Hearthstone, where his cheerful, dynamic characters (like Fungalmancer and Annoy-o-Tron) are instantly recognizable each expansion. He describes his creative process as intuitive rather than analytical: he starts with a blank Photoshop canvas, listens to genre-appropriate music, and paints in a burst of enthusiasm, aiming for maximum color, fun, and energy. Earlier in his career, he also built a reputation for retro-styled pin-up and fantasy art, part Simon Bisley and part Frank Frazetta, published in books like “Thigh Voltage” and “The Fantasy Artist’s Figure Drawing Bible.”

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His most personal ongoing project is “Transmissions,” a series of digital paintings depicting lonely, rusted robot characters inhabiting a quiet, human-less natural world — perched in trees, beside the sea, startled by a stray balloon. He deliberately avoids explaining the robots or their world, treating each new painting as a chance to discover something rather than to answer a question, and inviting viewers to build their own narratives around the ambiguous scenes.

Eugene Golovanchuk is a self-taught 3D artist and Visual Systems Director based in Kyiv, Ukraine, known for cyberpunk-tinged dark surrealism and digital fashion.

Golovanchuk began working in 3D in 2016 and built his signature style through a self-imposed daily practice called “Everyday Art,” where he produced a new piece each day exploring cyberpunk and dark-art surrealist themes. He works across Cinema 4D, Octane Render, ZBrush, Substance Designer/Painter, and Photoshop, and more recently has incorporated AI tools like Midjourney into his fashion-focused concept work.

His art centers on surreal character portraits wrapped in intricate, futuristic fashion: robotic elements, lacy textures, glass and gold surfaces, and bold clashing patterns like polka dots against leopard print. This attention to material detail — down to individual threads of fabric — has earned comparisons to couture design rendered in 3D. His notable projects include “COLLΞCTORS,” a series of surreal animated NFT characters representing five collector psychological archetypes for Web3, and “Bright Vibe,” a character-portrait series exploring vibrant, opposing textures and shapes.

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Joseph Biwald is the Marketing Art Director for PlayStation Studios Creative, supporting Bungie, and is also an independent artist and photographer based in Washington State.

For a decade, Biwald has shaped the marketing art of the Destiny franchise, capturing thousands of in-game screenshots and directing key art for major releases, including Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, where he combined character models, matte painting, and illustration into cinematic promotional imagery. Alongside his studio work, he creates personal illustrations of futuristic and cosmic landscapes — alien terrain, icy towers, and abstract space environments — that carry the same otherworldly, cinematic sensibility as his game art but push further into pure sci-fi fantasy. His piece “Kasai” has been highlighted among standout surreal, imaginary landscape art for its striking sense of scale and atmosphere

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Mariano Peccinetti (@marianopeccinetti), also known by the pseudonym Trasvorder, is an Argentinian musician and visual artist born in Mendoza in 1985.

Peccinetti describes himself as an “image curator” — before he ever made collages, he spent years collecting vintage photos from magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and National Geographic, sourced from the 1950s to 1980s. He splices these vintage images with cosmic and surreal elements — galaxies, mountain ranges replacing faces, or 1950s-style bathers set against alien landscapes — creating what he calls “a portal directly to your subconscious.”

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His process has evolved over time: he started purely with scalpel-cut physical collage in 2012, but today works in a hybrid way, generating atmospheres with AI tools like Midjourney and Firefly, then reworking them heavily in Photoshop and adding movement in After Effects. He links his visual work closely to his music career (with the band Las Luces Primeras), describing both as forms of travel tied to dreams, meditation, and the exploration of the subconscious.

Pascal Campion is a French-American illustrator, concept designer, and storyteller based in Los Angeles, with nearly a million followers on his personal art account @pascalcampionart. He has worked with major studios including Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., DreamWorks, Marvel, and Illumination, and his covers have appeared on The New Yorker.

His signature style blends expressive, gesture-driven brushwork with a subdued, minimalistic color palette punctuated by warm accent colors — often golden yellows against deep blues. Campion’s characters are simplified but full of exaggerated, emotionally charged poses, and his scenes read like cinematic keyframes capturing quiet, intimate moments: a couple in the rain, a city glowing at dusk, someone lost in thought with a cat nearby. Working mainly in digital media like Photoshop and Adobe Fresco, he’s known for producing thousands of daily sketches over his career, and he often shares comics reflecting on everyday emotional life alongside his more polished illustration work.

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Filip Mirazovic is a Serbian-born painter, based in Paris, who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Vladimir Velickovic, Christian Boltanski, and Dominique Gauthier. He situates his practice within the lineage of classical painting, working primarily in oil on linen and canvas.

His paintings merge landscapes, interiors, and human figures, often built around marble, porcelain, chesterfield leather, and other materials associated with class and wealth. These surfaces become metaphors for the body: marble veins stand in for blood vessels, glossy leather reads as dead-looking skin, and small scratches or dents hint at a “real” person trying to break free from beneath a constructed, almost post-human shell. Recent works like “Daughter” and “Son,” shown in his solo exhibition Cryptomnesia at Plan X in Milan, focus on introspective portraiture, psychological states, and symbolism drawn from ballet and the female figure.

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Francisco Fonseca, known as _francis.co, is an illustrator from Paço de Sousa, a small village in Portugal. He completed a master’s degree in Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2018 and has worked as a full-time illustrator ever since, building an audience of over one million followers.

Houses sit at the center of his art. He treats each building as a portrait of the people who live in it — a mirror of culture, memory, and personal history rather than just architecture. This focus grew out of his research into local myths and legends, and his effort to give voice to the people of his home village; his stated goal is to bridge generations and rescue cultural heritage from being forgotten. Beyond illustration, he founded Porta 98, co-founded Garden Skate Co., paints murals around Porto, and teaches an online course through Domestika.

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Мtox is a digital illustrator from Malaysia with the tagline “life and arts.” Her work is built around a soft, dreamlike aesthetic — summery tones, a sense of weightlessness, and poetic captions about searching and dreaming.

She posts art reels introducing herself and her process, and responds directly to followers who connect with her style. The illustrations feel personal and unfinished in a good way, more like a diary than a polished portfolio.

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Jay Chung, working as djay_studio, is a contemporary oil painter whose recent pieces include works like “Rocked” and imagery tagged under themes like cosmos.

His paintings have been shared by curators and style agencies, and his tags (#painting, #oilpainting, #oiloncanvas, #contemporaryart, #visionguides) point to a practice grounded in traditional materials with a distinctly modern, gallery-facing presentation.

The work leans into painterly texture and physical detail — close-up shots of canvas surfaces suggest an artist who cares as much about material presence as final composition. Given the recurring curatorial reposts, Jay Chung appears to be building traction within contemporary art circles rather than a casual hobbyist audience.

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Thomas Dubois is a French filmmaker, art director, and former architect from Montpellier who reinvented himself as a self-taught concept artist, digital painter, and 3D creator.

His early online worldbuilding projects caught the attention of Gareth Edwards, leading to work on The Creator, and he later contributed to Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots and served as an art director on Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, which earned a Best Adaptation nomination at The Game Awards.

He has since directed his own short films, starting with the sci-fi Solitary Waves in 2023, and is now producing a second, self-financed short set in Tokyo. His personal painting practice, especially the Echoes of Colorado series, has won him back-to-back Adobe Creativity Awards, and his work consistently returns to a core idea: connecting storytelling with architecture and landscape.

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Rutger van de Steeg is an environment concept artist with credits on major franchises including Borderlands 4, Star Wars: Visions, Secret Level, and Star Trek Prodigy. His work moves between sci-fi and fantasy worldbuilding, aerial compositions, and cinematic environment design for games and animated series.

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Pietro Chiovaro is a 3D artist, art director, and indie game developer from Palermo, Italy. He started using Blender at age twelve and has spent the last decade building a practice that moves through architecture, VFX, character work, environment design, and game development. He is currently developing his own game, OnnisQuest, and has worked as a lead 3D artist on various projects.

His work carries the energy of someone who grew up loving movies and videogames and then learned to build the worlds he wanted to see. He has also written for 3D World and 3D Artist Magazine since 2015, and runs a YouTube channel where he shares full process breakdowns, tutorials, and answers to other artists’ questions. The result is a practice that feels both technically deep and openly generous — he is not just making things, but showing how they are made.

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Yongqiang Li, known as Maojin Lee, is a concept artist, freelance illustrator, and writer with a prolific output spanning environments, architecture, and painterly fantasy worlds.

The work carries a strong sense of atmosphere and natural grandeur. Scenes feel hand-painted, emotionally weighted, and often rooted in encounters between characters and vast landscapes. He has also taught workshops, and some of his building designs trace back to canceled commercial projects under art direction, which points to real production experience alongside personal work.

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