I have a half dozen images for you this week, but I will also point out that if you do still go on Twitter, that the Visible Women hashtag just went around again, and that just searching #VisibleWomen will get you a flood of incredible artists sharing their stuff.
Chinese Oak by Nathan Fowkes
Nathan Fowkes is a veteran visual development and background artist for animation. His colour use is so deeply ingrained in vis-dev for animation from the last 25 or so years you probably didn't realize how much of his colour design you've seen. This sketch is great for just how much it gets across in how rough it is. The building in the background gets barely more than some rough lines and negative space to define it. The reflection in the water is some palette knifed-in roughs, but it doesn't matter because the tree is so expertly put together that it all just kinda works.
cuckoo by bhramarii
Love the way that the lighting in this image comes from the hand emerging from the cuckoo's mouth. Great way to highlight the nature of the relationship between the chick and the parent it's been forced upon. I enjoy this chunky painting style. Big visible strokes that let the black undercoat show through.
Deep Waters by Dominique Ramsay
Been a fan of Dominique Ramsay's stuff for a while. Extremely bold colour choices reminiscent of colour palettes you might find in East African wax printed textiles. Really interestingly stylized animals. I feel like Ramsay often gives these mythological looks to things through both patterning and an increase in eye count. I love how the eel here looks almost metallic or iridescent because of those soft, noise-y green highlights along its edges.
Breathe by sleell11
If I was to try and pin down an easy shorthand for an image I was going to like, I'd draw a person being immersed in and in the process of being overwhelmed by flowy natural things. Fish, plants, water, wind. This artist's ability to make these enormous leaves fold and segment in interesting ways, like fabric, is really beautifully rendered and the way they've turned that into a perfect blindfold is excellent. You can kinda tell that one segment of the image is the jumping off point: make these leaves the blindfold, then extrapolate everything from there.
Tomb of the Black Horse by Kim Myatt
It's possible I've featured Kim before, but if not I at least intended to but ran out of steam. Kim's colour use is really subtle and really good. The little touches of blue to help the yellows pop, and the strange scratches of teal that give a strange bounce light to the brow of the face. Great liquid gold as well, incredible job dealing with the different ways surfaces reflect light to really get that gooey, glossy look to it. It also goes without saying that her ability to render hands is immense. I would love to see her reference photos for constructing this image.
Pinecone Golem by Conor Nolan
You're at the end. Here's an incredible guy. Just a really clever way of turning a pinecone into a character. Conor Nolan simply has a great knack for character designs with good texture and and appealing shapes.