10 Digital Artists: Women in digital arts you need to know
Here’s a list of emerging and established digital artists who are pushing the boundaries of digital expression by experimenting with several forms and techniques, such as artificial intelligence, 3D animation, and digital painting.
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 (more) talented women digital artists you need to know about to get inspired and extend your horizons.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Rhea BambuluOlivia Klingler-WaldronJenni PasanenRiskaBlake KathrynShay The SurrealistTinker TailorLaura ShepherdZoe OsborneRhea Bambulu is an illustrator from Indonesia. She grew up in a small town called Tembagapura and is now based in Jakarta. She has a degree in Visual Communication Design from Trisakti University and worked as a Graphic Designer in several design studios before becoming a full-time illustrator in 2016.
She creates digital paintings and GIFs drawing inspiration from the modern romanticism era and the anime pop culture of the 80s and 90s. Her artistic expression, she says, “articulates her melancholy.”
Her art stands out for its vibrant colors and its depictions of romantic moments, full of flowers and stars in the night sky — and it just brings spring to our hearts.
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Olivia Generao-Waldron is a Filipino American artist and musician from upstate New York. She studied illustration, and photography, as well as classical music composition at her alma mater The City College of New York, and is currently working as a freelance illustrator.
Olivia specializes in character based artwork, and most of her commissions involve character design. Her favorite projects involve working with musicians on creating custom and cohesive designs for concert posters, merchandise, and album artwork. She has collaborated with music bands like The Grand Mals and organizations that support musicians such as the Kyle Robinson Memorial Foundation.
When she isn’t illustrating, she can be found working on her original music, set to be released later this year, or experimenting with new painting techniques in her home studio.
We are huge fans of her funky and cool figure drawings and characters that stand out for their distinct personalities. Olivia has also created the most beautiful artwork for DAB, depicting the magical jungle where digital artists create to thrive and digital art lovers meet their muse.
Jenni 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.
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Riska is an Indonesian illustrator and NFT artist who creates under the name Holakanola. Her art is a magical realm itself — full of flowers, details, patterns, and vibrant colors. In her words, her biggest inspirations are “women, flowers, or anything pretty.”
Riska also draws inspiration from folktales and fairytales, clearly visible in her The Book of Elves and Fairies collection. In her descriptions she includes backstories to the forest, such as the customs and traditions as well as characteristics of the fairies, to further immerse us in the artwork.
The fantasy worlds she creates make us want to teleport to these alternate realities where everything is magical, beautiful, and full of wonders.
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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.
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Shaylin Wallace, better known as Shay the Surrealist in the digital arts world, is a digital artist and graphic designer from Wilmington, Delaware and is currently based in Washington D.C.
Shay the Surrealist creates surrealistic compositions and “strives to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.” She has worked with clients including Netflix, Mercedes Benz, Adobe, AMC, and Warner Bros, and her work has been exhibited worldwide.
We are completely in love with her Afrocentric floral portraits that convey the confidence of embracing change, uniqueness, and inner beauty, and blooming fearlessly.
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Hera Kim is a florist, graphic designer, and media artist who shares her digital artworks under Tinker Tailor Studio. She also is the CEO of a Korea-based interior and decoration company, focusing on wedding halls and flowers.
Her art demonstrates significant inspiration from her work as a florist, and she utilizes AI technology to capture her viewers in a dreamworld that resembles classical oil paintings. We are totally captivated by her still-life of flowers and butterflies collection.
Check out her gorgeous VR exhibition to see her intertwined depictions of bloom and decay, and life and death.
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Laura Shepherd is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and creative director based in London, who is “Exploring the Energy in Digital.” She uses 2D vectors and bitmap painting as well as 3D modeling.
Her art can be referred to as virtual psychedelics for its use of colors and texture, or in her words, a “practice of co-creation with digital technology to birth a uniquely contemporary psychedelic visual language and experience.”
Visit her metaverse gallery IT'S THE 5-HT to experience her experiments with generative art and virtual psychedelics: “The Goal of this Trip is Ecstacy.”
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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.
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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.
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