50 Inspiring deviantART Profiles

deviantART is a vibrant online community for artists to showcase their work. Some of the artists are professional, many are amateur, and all show real talent, or at the very least, a passion for what they do.

We want to share 50 deviantARTists that caught our eye. Their art is not only inspiring, but also incredibly diverse. They offer everything from black-and-white photography to graffiti art to video game characters.

Artisan Crafts - Cartoons & Comics - Digital Art - Manga & Anime - Photography - Traditional Art - Other

Artisan Crafts

1. balthasarcraft: Kyla and Iridesce are new members on deviantART. They specialize in creating distinctive pendants and jewelry, generally consisting of a colored stone wrapped in a cool wire design.
2. Bobsmade: This German designer creates custom-made shoes, sunglasses, t-shirts, and headphones with fun cartoon logos and motifs.
3. cupcake-rufflebutt: Tess creates costumes in numerous themes such as anime, films, and video games. They are exhibited through photographs, sketches, and graphic art.
4. Snowfern: Cindy creates fascinating miniature food art from clay. Her dessert recreations are especially intricate.
5. YouniquelyChic: Tara Wood is a first-class jewelry designer from Colorado Springs. Most of her pieces are earrings, though some jewelry sets are also shown here.

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Cartoons & Comics

6. duss05: Dustin Nguyen is a talented cartoonist who has a plethora of illustrations depicting Batman, his favorite subject.
7. kizer180: Coran has several recreations of popular cartoon characters with his own spin on them. He also displays his original characters.
8. lainchan: Bryony is a professional animation artist from the UK. Several of her sheets contain multiple characters. Her use of color on the more intricate pieces is breathtaking.
9. philippajudith: Philippa Rice creates several original comic strips based around characters made from cardboard.
10. windriderx23: Jamie Fay focuses on female superheroes, utilizing vibrant color schemes and strong, sensual bodies.

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Digital Art

11. budgie: Stephan McGowan has a special talent for portraying women in his art as evil and innocent at the same time. Of particular interest are the angelic-looking women with blood spillingfrom their mouths.
12. coradee: Self-identified digitan artist, this 7-year deviantART veteran is more like a jack of all trades. She dabbles in fan art, animation, charcoal, and acrylic.
13. digital-alero: Though in the digital art category, Alejandro Rosado's artwork has a very cartoony style. His subjects include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, and Lady Gaga.
14. InertiaK: Karen from Canada creates some spectacular digital art of women in phantasmagorical settings.
15. lady-symphonia: Nathalia Suellen is a digital artist and graphic designer. She creates dramatic pieces of work, manipulating photographs of women and creating a sense of fantasy and magic.
16. MasterStryke: This German digital artist has a special talent for creating haunting landscapes.
17. Raphael-Lacoste: Lacoste creates some amazingly surreal landscape fantasies. Several of his pieces have an Armageddon or Atlantis feel.
18. shawnah16me: This young artist prefers very girly subjects, utilizing lots of pink and purples. Several pieces are dedicated to pop artists.
19. sylphielmetallium: Rei Plys, an 18-year-old artist from France, creates amazing digital art with superb attention to detail. Though the characters are the central focus, it's the background that catches the viewer's eye.

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Manga & Anime

20. eguana: This Thai artist specializes in anime and fan art. Her favorite subjects include Final Fantasy, Batman and Robin, and Kingdom Hearts.
21. iareawesomeness: This artist has a talent for creating intense facial expressions on his characters. He has even incorporated his own photograph with that of an anime character in a loving embrace, entitled Deviant ID Goof with Tsunade.
22. najwah-namine: This young anime artist draws cutesy and soft anime characters and scenes.
23. Omnidevil: Malaysian artist Darren Ong creates beautiful monochrome sketches of anime characters.
24. Quakeulf2: This Norwegian artist plays with a variety of techniques when creating his manga and anime pieces. His collection also includes digital art.
25. remocholy: This Chinese artist makes several recreations of DRRR characters. He also creates art on extremely skinny pieces of paper, making them visually interesting.

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Photography

26. Alexandru1988: Alexandru is a student and artist from Bucharest, Romania. His photography focuses on nature and lanscapes, but he also dabbles in conceptual photos.
27. angelreich: Marcin Stawiarz is a remarkable photographer from Poland who takes phenomenal photos of urban and natural landscapes. Most are grayscale photos, introducing an intriguing element into his work.
28. Bloddroppe: Josefine Jonsson from Sweden has a talent for using stark photos with vibrant colors. She has a very modern style.
29. chocolatenoir: Jordi Esteban's black-and-white portraits are strikingly modern, stunning, and filled with emotion.
30. Elli71: French photographer Elli utilizes a black-and-white style. She claims to have "abhorred colours since [her] late teens." Several of her nature photographs look more like an abstract painting than a photograph.
31. fibreciment: His photos of bleak, abandoned urban buildings and landscapes have a haunting feel to them.
32. gutterface: Kai takes pulsating, colorful photographs of interesting people, atypical of common models.
33. hougaard: This South African artist takes absolutely surreal photos of landscapes. After he is done adding the finishing touches, it's hard to believe they depict real places.
34. jessie-edrap: Jessie specializes in taking sensual photos of women. Many of her photographs have interesting color schemes, such as black-and-white with a touch of red or yellow.
35. monislawa: This young Polish photographer takes beautiful, classic photos of women. Her style ranges from soft to sensual and haunting.
36. R727: This artist specializes in creating and photographing dolls. They are surprisingly emotive and realistic.

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Traditional Art

37. aaronmiller: Chicago-based artist Aaron Miller has an extraordinary variety of styles and subjects, ranging from landscapes and urbandepictions to animals and portraits.
38. Biboye: Pia Patricia Korani, a young artist from Syria, portrays women experiencing all types of moods and emotions in as many different styles. Her range is impressive, especially considering she is only 20 years old.
39. Leighferickson: Leigh Anita's drawings vary in style, from black-and-white sketches that look like they could accompany an EdgarAllan Poe poem to interesting compilations of cut-out magazine objects combined with her original additions.
40. Leonidafremov: Leonid is a classic painter who paints natural and urban landscapes. His work is so popular that he's been featured on TV programs.
41. livingrope: This Parisian artist creates work of highly fantastical characters in a variety of dreamlike and surreal settings.
42. Lora8: Labeled a conceptual artist, she creates stunning, completely original pieces of art, normally utilizing a central person/character with interesting paint techniques for the background.
43. Rick-Kills-Pencils: Artist Rick Fortson does amazing sketches of celebrity portraits. Most portray the celebrities as their characters in a given film. His work is particularly notable as he claims to have been drawing for less than two years.
44. snowmask: Katie is a deviantART old-timer and works as a moderator in the Traditional Art section. Outside of deviantART, she works as a professional painter based out of Hong Kong. She has several beautiful paintings of women emerging from butterflies and flowers.

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Other

45. Arsenal21: Glenn Rane is the art director for Blizzard Entertainment. He designs and illustrates inimitable characters for games.
46. chocolatecrusade: Ying is a multi-talented artist, creating pieces like visual literature, customizations, photography, and cartoons.
47. FireFeathers: A.L. is a fantasy artist who puts a dreamlike spin on everyday animals, as well as creates original characters. His work transverses a variety of mediums.
48. Nambroth: Jennifer Miller's talents are awe-inspiring. Her unique jewelry pendants are out of this world, and she is also a gifted photographer and digital artist.
49. n4t4: The word "talented" is insufficient to describe this graffiti artist's work. His attention-grabbing use of paint and textures creates addictive displays.
50. treeworshipper: Treeworshipper forms some fascinating mixed media pieces. She is definitely an artist to watch.

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