10 Artists You Should Watch [II]

This is changing from a monthly feature to a whenever-the-heck-I-feel-like-it feature.
Previously: 10 Artists You Should Watch if You Don't Already
Here are 10 artists I'm continually awed and inspired by. I hope you find them just as amazing as I do!

GaudiBuendia

Gaudi's works are so diverse in nature, and yet they all somehow find their way into my favorites. Her style is both instantly recognizable and incredibly unique. Her subject matter, though often nature-based, always has a large injection of fantasy, mystery, and intrigue. Every single piece stands well on its own, each being its own little portrait of a world strangely similar to ours and yet also slightly and wonderfully foreign. I had an incredibly hard time picking only six pieces to put here; I love everything she does.


Viviphyd
 
Can you say energy visualized? That's what I think of when I see Vivipyd's works. They have such an interesting and flowing style, a style in which roughness is perfection and overall sense is valued over individual details. There's an interesting mix of science fiction and traditional medieval swordplay in his pieces too, which I absolutely adore.


CezarBrandao

Cezar's pieces are incredibly striking. His bold use of color, line, and shape is perfectly complemented by the detailed 3-D models he uses in each of his pieces. His works seem to be the sort that are quietly profound without one knowing exactly why. If you follow his artistic journey through the pages of his gallery, you can see how much stronger and clearer his artistic voice has become recently. I'm excited to see where his art will go next, and I'm sure it will be nothing less than awe-inspiring.


hypnothalamus

Holy cow. Never in all my years of aimlessly wandering the art side of the internet have I come across an artist whose work is as consistently interesting and original as hypnothalamus'. I first stumbled across his work in a book called Sketching from the Imagination (featuring an inside look into professional artist's sketchbooks- it's not a how-to book). I was immediately struck by his doodles, which seemed to me to be absolutely...well, I don't even have words for it. The composition, the ideas, the flow, everything about his pieces seems perfect, and yet somehow effortless. The ideas behind the pieces, whether stated blatantly or not (usually not), really make one sit down and ruminate on what they might mean, if they even have a meaning. Conceptual pieces like these will forever be my one love when it comes to art, and hypnothalamus is one of the best there is when it comes to producing them. I can only wonder where all of his ideas come from.


loish
      
Loish is well known in the dA community, but I thought I'd mention her anyway. Her pieces are full of emotion, thought, and wonder. There's definitely a wonderful sense of intrigue one gets when looking at her work- many of them are portraits, but portraits on a level beyond your typical "here's a pretty picture of a person with a nice composition" shtick. They're apologetically bold as well, with perfect color choices complementing wonderfully thought-out choices of subject matter. I always find myself being inspired by her latest works.


Za-Akranoia
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Za-Akranoia has such a wonderful style. I can never quite get over how she's able to draw so many different things equally well, and I love seeing her unique style applied to everything she does. Her color choices are spot-on (in case you can't tell yet, I'm very big on color), and her pieces are really interesting and fun to stare at for hours on end. I'll probably never grow tired of seeing new pieces from her pop up in my inbox.


Novere
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If you're someone who's big on style, look no further. Novere has, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and awesome styles out there. It's a cliche thing to say, but I always recognize her stuff the moment I see it. Her use of crisp lines and subdued palettes compliment one another incredibly well in a site filled to the brim with cell-shaded, over-saturated works (no offense- I personally prefer subtler hues over stronger ones). Her incredibly rich world (which she shares with her partner Tespia, also a fantastic artist you should watch) is rich, interesting, and keeps you coming back for more as well.


chaoslavawolf
 
Flippin' landscape artists, man, how do they do it? Chaoslavawolf is one of my all-time-favorite 'scape painters. She does other works, as well, but it's the well-crafted environments she brings to life that really make me smile. They're incredibly atmospheric, and how she's able to draw a quiet forest scene just as convincingly as a dimly-lit mountain village is beyond me. I really just want to step into any one of her paintings. I feel as if they're more than snapshots of a moment: they're portals into another world that keeps on existing even outside of the moment captured in the picture. That's something that is incredibly hard to do in environmental art, and it makes me respect her so much more for it.


ravenmilo
 
Ravenmilo is relatively new to deviantart, but her works speak volumes. I find myself in utter adoration at her use of color, and her concepts are fresh and interesting. I love that she can draw monsters, humans, and landscapes all very well, something that's really hard to do. There's an overwhelming sense of creativity in her pieces as well. I can't wait to see what she does next.


TysonTan
  
If you like any combination of anthros, mechs, or androids, TysonTan's works will most likely appeal to you. I don't think I've ever seen someone who can pull off anthro-mechs like Tysontan can. His characters just scream awesome. I really just want to draw fanart for him all day. He's been one of my biggest inspirations and I've been watching him for about as long as I've been on dA. He also designed the mascot for the digital painting program Krita (which I love obsessively), which makes him even cooler than should be humanly possible.