Born in Kyoto in 1984, Kana Ohtsuki began her artistic career by designing cover art while still at Sei-an University of Art and Design. Her paintings, with their delicate feel and soft colouring, focus upon normal high school girls with large, emotive eyes

I've really fallen out reading older novels. Lately I've been focusing on modern fiction, the likes of Haruki Murakami, Terry Prachett and Clive Barker, so now that I've gone back to an older novel, Soseki Natsume's 'I am a Cat' I'm finding my pacing much slower than normal

Loworks / Himuro Yoshiteru is a Japanese graphic designer and illustrator. He has worked with companies such as NIKE, Yahoo and Ford, and has sold his work on sites such as Tokyocube.

Before today, Insupire-shon was the only section on the blog. Over the past few months, since I've become a full-time freelance designer, I've been working on getting my own identity together. A part of this move was to have a place where I could post updates about the work I was undertaking, both pet ...

Taiyo Matsumoto is one of Japan's foremost seinen mangakas. His works are a combination of European, American and Japanese comic art forms, making his work purely unique, with a captivating franetic energy.

Malaysian illustrator Toonikun's pieces have a real decadent quality to them; less isn't always more and the intricate detailing and patterning on these prove that fact. In addition, the colour depth helps the illustrations jump off the page, even in the case of the more monotone works

Another inspiring deviantArt-er, German artist belialchan creates manga-inspired original and fan art pieces that are rich in texture, soft in colour and inchanting content and characters

Malaysia artist kidchan has over an amazing 3 million hits on deviantArt, and no wonder. Her work is so original, combining intense backgrounds with gorgeous character designs and beautiful colouring.

Japanese artist aloespica109 creates beautiful soft and dreamy fairy tail landscapes using a wide range of materials, from watercolours, gouache and even digital software

Michael Wandelmaier is an illustrator and graphic designer who currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Though formally trained as a civil engineer and geologist, Michael has chosen to pursue a career in the arts. He uses both traditional and digital media in his work