Art for All: Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 13

Welcome back to our Diversity in Design series on Envato Tuts+. Discover four talented artists with inspiring styles you’ll love.

4 Artists You Should Know: Diversity in Design

Celebrate
the work of these extraordinary artists. Each with their own unique
background, they draw inspiration from their culture and surroundings to
create phenomenal designs.

Soma Difusa

Our first artist is the magnificent Soma Difusa, an illustrator and printmaker from Bogotá, Colombia. With a love for traveling guiding her way, she creates stunning editorial pieces with subdued palettes.

See more in her portfolio.

Niña Montaña

I’m an illustrator and artist from Bogotá.
Since 2016 I have traveled all around my country painting with
populations, thus I’ve managed to find a way in which my art can
reach more people and help carry a message.

Nina Montana
Niña Montaña

Lo Más Alto

I like to find all the things that are in common between different experiences or objects, so I
create word games which later become images. I get a lot of inspiration
from traveling, the streets of Bogotá, animals, and nature.

Lo Ms Alto
Lo Más Alto

The Skylight Room

The Skylight Room
The Skylight Room

Elefante en la Habitación

There are many Colombian artists whose art inspire me like Gleo,
Bastardilla and Hello Kuso. To me, the most relevant thing that I like to
see with artists is more than a style but instead, the ability to evoke. I also love
the work of Mazatl, Smitheone, Katie Scott, and Camille
Chew.

Elefante en la Habitacin
Elefante en la Habitación

Yukari Mishima

Next is the stunning watercolor work of Yukari Mishima, an illustrator born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan. Inspired by the dynamic images taken from Japanese comics and animation, she creates lovely watercolor paintings of every day life.

See more in her portfolio.

Scenes in Daily Lives

After majoring in Chinese Linguistics and working as a translator, I decided to try to become an
illustrator, which was my secret dream, at the age of 35.

My main artworks are watercolor
paintings and 3D illusion paintings, and sometimes I also write short
cartoon essays on SNS. My tools of choice are watercolor, colored pencils, comic
pens and Adobe Photoshop.

Scenes in Daily Lives
Scenes in Daily Lives

Landscapes in Japan

I have gotten a lot of inspiration from Japanese comic books and animations.
The pictures in comic books are drawn with simple lines, nevertheless, they sometimes depict a character’s dynamic actions and
expressions better, and stir our emotions much more than photographed
images.

I am often fascinated with fiction so as to forget bad things in
real life.
I hope to create such artworks which invite someone to a world between fantasy and reality.

Landscapes in Japan
Landscapes in Japan

Library

Library
Library

3D Entrance Sign of Miyajima Public Aquarium

There are so many artists I respect, such as: Chihiro Iwasaki, Mitsumasa Anno,
Seiji Fujishiro, Naoki Urasawa,
and 3D artist Hideyuki Nagai.

3D Entrance Sign of Miyajima Public Aquarium
3D Entrance Sign of Miyajima Public Aquarium

Daniel Amedoda

With a specialty in rhythmic pen and pencil work, Daniel Amedoda is an illustrator and artist living in London. Enjoy a selection of his fascinating vertical drawings and stippled illustrations.

See more in his portfolio.

Verticalis

My name is Daniel Amedoda, and I am a London-based freelance creative. I
specialize in motion and Illustration using both traditional and digital
media. On some days, my creativity is on a high, charged by genuine
inspiration as I go into a weird, creative autopilot mode, knowing where
every stroke should be and where to place each value.

Verticalis
Verticalis

Pages of Her

I had seen an artist on Instagram using
a pen and a ruler to build up values using straight lines. This
simple method translated well to my old iPad and I just started
creating. I also love drawing on paper with
ink as this method can be somewhat unforgiving with no undo button or pinch or zoom.

With some of my drawings, the same principles of building
values remained but I changed the methods slightly. Either by using
dots, or a simple hatching method.

Pages of Her
Pages of Her

Stippling Illustration

Stippling Illustration
Stippling Illustration

Verticalis

One of my all time favorite artists is Yoji Shinkawa. The way he’s able
to draw with such vivid images with just a brush pen fascinated me. Moonzcap, T.S. Abe, and Nicholas Sanchez are also just a few of the many artists that inspire me.

Verticalis
Verticalis

Megumi Goto

Our final pieces come from the incredible work of Megumi Goto, an illustrator living in Tokyo, Japan. Recalling her memories through traditional and digital mediums, she creates intriguing illustrations centered around life.

See more in her portfolio.

Lovers

I’ve always loved drawing a girl’s wonderland—beautiful princesses in dresses and I often drew the people around me who I always thought looked fashionable.

Lovers
Lovers

Ark Hills Leaflet

I want to capture all the beautiful things which exist in my day-to-day life,
like sunlight coming through my window or the reflection of the light
through the water in my favorite glass.

Ark Hills Leaflet
Ark Hills Leaflet

Tropicana Package

Tropicana Package
Tropicana Package

Epos Card News

I also love drawing the everyday lives of the people I visit. I have traveled a lot and drawing maps gives me the feeling of a new adventure beginning. I got a beautiful pop up map book by Sarah McMenemy, and I would love to try and make this kind of book for Tokyo, Hiroshima, and other cities all over the world.

Epos Card News
Epos Card News

Celebrate Diversity! Send Us Your Favorite Artists!

Help us find more incredible artists from different backgrounds to share with our audience! Tweet me your recommendations at MelloNieves or use the hashtags #artforall and #tutsplusdesign on Twitter and Instagram. You never know, we may just feature you in our next article!

I’d
like to extend a warm thank you to all the artists who participated in
this feature. Feel free to see more of their work in the links below:

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