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San Francisco based Bagger43 does fantastic street style paintings and portraits. Check out his blog for sketches, more paintings and even vinyl toys.

Amongst his body of stylish work is Ariel McMillion’s cheeky update of a time honored theme. Who doesn’t love dogs playing poker?

Ken Orvidas has a huge body of work that is as luxuriant as it is intelligent. His take on concepts are of particular interest, as they get the point across while still standing up as works of art. Ken also does some interesting outdoor abstract sculpture wor, some of which has has displayed on a separate page.

Chris Dent makes some amazing black and white urban landscape illustrations. He captures the frentic feel of cities well; frankly the lack of color doesn’t hurt a bit. In a way it almost helps emphasize certain facets of city living.

Painter and illustrator Danielle Lamberti’s work creatively updates a retro notion of cute with modern sensibilities. While it’s hard to make out online, some of her work includes glitter, which surely adds to the girlish touches!

Isreali illustrator Einar Peled has a colorful body of work including US and Isreali clients. She also has some lovely  pillows with illustrated prints that would look great on any couch.

Mark E Smith’s powerful watercolor acrylic ink works really bring out the mood and atmosphere in his subjects without being melodramatic. Some of his pictures are accompanied by interesting, haiku-like poems, which lend an interesting extra touch of quiet tension.

Stylish vector work from Toronto’s Kun-Sung Chung. Fans and collectors will like the prints available off Posterlounge.

While  the spotlight is on Mariko Jesse’s excellent map work, it’s true to say she does great work all round. I personally like her Asian food illustrations. Mariko is part of the UK illustrators collective, Monster People.

New Zealand-based Helen Dean illustrates girls in pretty candy-colors. She also has neat fashion illustrations done with pens in her sketchbook section.