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.

Shaylin Wallace

Our first feature belongs to Shaylin Wallace, a skilled photographer and digital artist living in Delaware.

Find more in her portfolio and follower her on Instagram.

Raise the Roots

I'm currently entering my junior year this fall at Salisbury University pursuing my BFA in Graphic Design. As a digital artist, I specialize in photo-manipulation. I have a passion for creating surrealistic, yet minimal compositions by combining and editing stock photos in Adobe Photoshop.

Elefish

As a photographer, I specialize in portraiture and creating uniquely themed photo shoots. Not only do I love making art for myself, but for others as well. I love working with other creatives and bringing their visions and ideas to life.

Recently, I realized my artwork unknowingly depicted a deep, emotional part of myself that I cannot express with words. I'm inspired by creating surrealistic scenes that no one has created and having viewers double-take at my work, wondering if it's really real.

 Growing Mind

Leap of Faith

I really look up to Salvador Dali when it comes to my love for the surrealism art style. What I loved the most about his work was how realistic his paintings looked even though they were surreal. His work opened up a whole new passion of mine that I didn't know I had. Ever since then, I've been a surrealism-based artist who loves to create the impossible.

David Silva

Next is David Silva, a magnificent graphic designer from Kuumba Studio in Minas Gerais, Brazil. With a passion for unique brand design and more, his work covers a wide variety of brilliant creations from 3D art to professional identities.

Find more in his portfolio and follow him on Instagram.

Number Renders

Kuumba Studio is governed by three principles: the passion for creating a great brand, the appetite for challenging work and the excitement of new projects. Projects that will make customers happy. With strategy and a lot of study, we create significant and relevant brands for various businesses.

BDB Group

Our goal remains strong: to help, create, build and share the things we are passionate about.

We are a creative and strategic studio, where passion, curiosity, insight and experience ensure that each project is unique and delivers effective results. For Kuumba Studio, it's much more than a brand, it's a story.

Number Renders

Estúdio Kuumba Brand Identity

Typographic and conceptual works are our favorites. Among some of the artists that stand out is Plau Design, directed by Rodrigo Saiani. I am inspired and admire their work, which motivates me.

Jessica Humphrey

Designer and illustrator Jessica Humphrey, originally from Maryland, is our next incredible talent. Explore her amazing collection of brand design and vector artworks below.

Find more in her portfolio and follow her on Instagram.

Muse Shave Cream

I'm a designer, illustrator and musician living in Colorado but originally from Maryland. In my spare time I play bass, video games, and try to study capoeira.

Saige + Ivy - Replenish Scrub

Most of my work is inspired by my struggles with mental illness - anxiety, depression, PTSD—and navigating a painful divorce.

 ASDF 2019 Rebrand

Original Cameo

My favorite styles of art are the ones that are a combination—a clearly illustrative style, but with just a touch of "cartoonish"-ness. In terms of old artists, El Greco and Caravaggio are my favorites, and my favorite modern artist is Fanch Ledan.

Mimosa Viljanen

Our final feature belongs to illustrator and motion designer, Mimosa Viljanen. Originally from Finland, she now creates stunning digital illustrations and charismatic animations while living in Brussels. 

Find more in her portfolio and follow her on Instagram.

Autumn

I am completely incapable of not illustrating something new all the time, which gives me a hard time handling 3+ personal projects & work, all at once, at all times. I recently graduated from the College of Advertising and Design (CAD) in Brussels with a master's degree in motion design and UX. Ever since I've been working in a communications agency in Antwerp, Allyens.

Customer Journey Illustrations

I'd like to think that the inspiration behind my work is simply visual—I see something, I like it, it inspires/challenges me and so I go for it. Lately I've noticed it's more than this - whenever I finish an illustration it tells me a story. It could simply be that those stories are personal to me, and others don't see them. You be the judge.

Jungle

Samira

I am often times inspired by various digital illustrators as much as people who practice traditional drawing. Tattoo art is also a big source of inspiration for me. Mostly people that aren't so known.

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!

Love this selection? See more from this series:

• Art
  Art for All: Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 24
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• Illustration
  Art for All: Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 23
  Melody Nieves

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 at the links below:

• Shaylin Wallace
  
• David Silva
  
• Jessica Humphrey
  
• Mimosa Viljanen