10 Digital Artists: Wonderful and surreal digital dreamlands
Artists explore and process their emotions through their art, and given the weird and surreal nature of the human subconscious, sometimes the only way to express them is through otherworldly digital dreamscapes.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you. We gathered 10 talented digital artists who create digital dreamlands that take us to a beautiful daydream.
These artists use digital tools like 3D animation, digital painting, and artificial intelligence to transport viewers to dreamy and surreal landscapes featuring otherworldly colors, shapes, and textures. These spaces often defy the laws of nature — very much like a dream.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Jenni PasanenRank SSSYomagickTanisha LahaneBlake KathrynMiraRuidoYashika KalraOutrunyouthLorem IpsumJenni Pasanen combines digital painting with AI to create her dreamy art. She studied graphic design and worked as a designer and an animator for 13 years before becoming a full-time artist. She has created art using acrylic painting, clay sculpting, sewing, animation, coding, 3D — and she found her voice in digital painting.
In addition to Photoshop and Artbreeder, artificial intelligence is a significant tool in her craft which has, she says, taken her creativity to the next level. Pasanen believes the AI technology greatly expands and augments human imagination as the machine is beyond emotional limitations, therefore contributing to the artwork in a way that she herself couldn’t have.
We are huge fans of her dreamy artworks where human collaborates with machine to create something incredibly unique.
Sabrina Guechetouli, known as Rank SSS in the digital art world, is an architect, swimmer, motion designer, and 3D artist from Algeria and is currently based in Dubai. She gets inspired by nature and architecture to create surreal and dreamlike spaces.
Her art brilliantly reflects her passion for space and bioclimate while taking the viewer to a strange, colorful, and dreamy world beyond our reality. Nature, in her words, is the purest portal to inner peace. Therefore, a lot of her artworks depict the journey to serenity and tranquility as being found within one’s self in a surreal nature — absolutely profound and beautiful.
If you’re inspired to create animation video loops like Rank SSS, check out her Skillshare class where she teaches how to create surreal loops using Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, Lumion Render, and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Maciek Martyniuk, known as Yomagick in the digital arts world, is a freelance 3D designer and digital artist whose work is an “introduction to look at the world differently.” He has worked with brands like Apple, Adobe, Vodafone, and Google and has been featured in publications like Wallpaper Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Hypebae.
He was born in Poland and has lived in Ireland and Germany for his studies, which made him identify as a nomad and became a significant inspiration for his art. He creates surreal yet welcoming dreamscapes while exploring contemporary life in fantasy worlds.
Yomagick established a recognizable style in the recent years through his project "Dreamlands", where he expresses a bright positivity and romanticism in calming, dreamy environments.
Tanisha Lahane is a 3D artist and architect from India. Her art is immediately recognizable for its dreamlike spaces full of warm colors, plants, and clouds.
Her work has been featured at various virtual and in-person exhibitions including NFT.NYC and Empowered By Paris: Empowered Women Empower Women Exhibition.
Follow her work to daydream with her in the surreal spaces she creates.
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Blake Kathryn is a Los Angeles-based 3D and visual artist who has collaborated with brands like Adidas, Complex, Fendi, Jimmy Choo, and musicians like Lil Nas X. She is known for her surreal and futuristic aesthetics and vibrant colors in dreamlike spaces.
Kathryn’s art drew a lot of attention when her 1/1 collaboration with Paris Hilton called ICONIC CRYPTO QUEEN: (Virtual) blondes have more fun, right? was sold for $1,111,211.00 (710.507 ETH) on Nifty Gateway in 2021, making Kathryn, as well as Hilton, iconic.
Zoe Osborne is a physical and virtual interior designer, photographer, and curator. She has a bachelor’s degree in interior design and was a creator in Elevate’s inaugural NFT Residency Program in Toronto. Her digital animations have been showcased in Toronto, New York, Barbados, and Dubai.
Zoe is from Barbados and is currently based in Canada. Her work focuses on the Caribbean Diaspora with inspirations from Caribbean symbolism and homesickness. The surreal aesthetics of her art are in fact explorations of the feeling of home as well as being a visual escape to paradise.
She is also the founder of Mahogany Culture, a collective for Caribbean history, culture, and community.
“In my mirror I see dreams of someplace I would rather be.”
Joseba Elorza, known as MiraRuido in the digital arts world, is a digital artist, illustrator, and animator/director. He has collaborated with brands like National Geographic and Amazon Studios, publications such as Esquire and WSJ, and musicians like the band Green Day.
MiraRuido’s art is beyond pretty visuals — he aims to leave the viewer in disbelief or even uneasiness through the impossible worlds and implausible situations he creates. He explores concepts of freedom and safety in dreamy spaces that feel like landscapes of our subconscious.
Yashika Kalra is a a self-taught visual artist and brand designer from India. She is specializes in portraiture as well as conceptual and surreal art. Her work has been exhibited at CoinBase Conference and Art Basel Miami, and she has been featured in publications like Hindustan Times and Business Today.
Her art, she says, is a reflection of the “profound strangeness of the collective human experience.” Yashika Kalra explores the concepts of love, pain, and dreams while creating a world that represents the internal space of a human soul.
Victor Sillue, known as Outrunyouth in the digital art world, is a self-taught digital artist. He was born and raised in Bergen, Norway and is currently based in Hamburg, Germany.
His art carries elements from escapism and melancholia while inviting the viewer to question reality in these mystic and surreal spaces. Outrunyouth puts great emphasis on the color palette of his artworks as he hopes to strike the viewer at first sight before exploring deeper meanings.
Walking the blurry line between explorations of the subconscious and dreamy escapism, we couldn’t have created a list of digital dreamscapes without mentioning Outrunyouth’s art.
“In essence I use art and surrealism as a means of therapy or catharsis, to bring my often abstract thoughts into fruition in an attempt to understand them better.”
Lorem Ipsum is a 3D and digital artist based in Turkey. His digital artworks have been exhibited in international exhibitions in England and China and will be showcased as a part of NFT NYC 2023.
He creates his art to “discover the unexplored, to move towards the new and the future.” His art involves pieces of his subconscious and his journey while exploring new stories. We are huge fans of his Inception Collection, which conveys alternate realities and a dream within a dream.
Lorem Ipsum’s art invokes escapism, but not when one needs to face reality — "Anyone hear my voice..?” is an artwork he created for those who suffered from the massive earthquakes in Turkey in February 2023. All proceeds from the sale of this NFT is donated to official fundraising organizations in Turkey.
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