Artist Research

When looking for portraits, this one really caught my eye. I loved this guy's expressions, to the contrasting background, to the letters literally spilling from his mouth. The letters make a movement you can follow to the book. It also makes you think about it's implications like the saying, "I know the word, it's on the tip of my tongue".

Yummei

Yummei is one of the newer artist I follow on both Deviantart and Tumblr. When I see her art my eyes instantly get caught on her choice of color pallet  She knows just how to mix her colors together to make this eye gripping picture with some amazing contrast (in my opion it also gives the piece good unity as well). Her proportions are well made whether she's doing simple faces for perspective/bird's eye view.

Sakimichan

Sakimichan is another popular Deviantart artist and for good reasons. Her use of contrasting colors between backgrounds and foregrounds makes her characters really stick out (along with being beautifully done of course). Her use of shading and line art give way to this really cool gray area of style and realism and (as you can see and the bottom mermaid painting) she can use her art to give movement and flow that just let your eyes follow the picture.