Evan Olinger is an 18 year old artist based out of Indiana, U.S.A. He started drawing around three years of age and creates stunning realistic works that feature pop culture idols including The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran, Billie Eilish, and the legendary Bob Ross.

I decided to switch things up with this next artist. Gaia Cairo is an illustrator, designer, and scuba instructor who lives around the Mediterranean Sea. Her works feature all sorts of beautiful idealized marine life in a concentration focused around pattern and repetition through watercolor creatures.

This next artist blows my mind with his surreal paintings. Digital illustrator Aukut Aydogdu is based out of Istanbul, Turkey and has quite an eye for creativity in his artwork. His illustrations overflow with symbols and metaphors displayed among an orchestra of beauty and serenity of the bizarre.

Reina Yamada is a watercolor artist based out of Japan. She uses beautifully composed portraits to create intricate paintings and is currently working on adapting watercolor to modern designs.

These dream-like paintings are absolutely stunning with ethereal beings engulfed in a sea of natural elements. Japanese artist, Miho Hirano is inspired by her childhood manga and their fantastical qualities to create these beautiful oil paintings. They encompass fluidity and movement through dynamic compositions and flowing brushstrokes.

Daniel Bilodeau is a Canadian American artist based in New York City who creates stunning hyper-realistic abstract portrait paintings. In an interview for The Curist Magazine he said "The way we are pulled in so many directions in our frenetic and digital age is also referenced in my digital abstractions. But as I've said recently I think in the...

Owen Wallace is a 20 year old digital illustrator from the UK. He focuses on realistic portraits in a dream-like setting. I love the whimsical feel of all his works and the fact that he's a fan of Tame Impala!

I am completely astonished by this digital artist! Max Reed is an 18 year old illustrator from the U.K. Love his work!

Veronika Gorbatenko is a phenomenal creator who works mostly with gouache and watercolor. Based out of Estonia, this avid traveler and freelance illustrator creates stunning portraits. Definitely go check her work out.

Another recently introduced artist that blew me away is Efraín Malo. He is a Spanish ink and pencil artist who works with the human form including beautiful foreshortening, caricatures, and absolutely stunning portraits. Foreshortening is no easy feat and I highly admire Malo for accepting the challenge and creating such incredible works.

Edgar Manuel Marcos is a phenomenal acrylic painter. He lives and works in Antony, France but he has exhibited his work as far as China. I love the contrast of photo realism and an abstraction of the faces.

Next up is an artist I was just recently introduced to. Ronald Restituyo is a self taught artist from the Dominican Republic. He has a degree in civil engineering and only started painting in 2011. I am absolutely captivated by his creativity and detail in his works.

I'd like to start off with one of my favorite artists: AM DeBrincat. She is a mixed media painter based out of Brooklyn, New York. I absolutely love how she uses fragments of differing mediums to present beauty in a new perspective.