John Suarez is finishing up his training in illustration, but his blog already has some pretty good examples of his work, including what must be one of the world’s sexiest anthromorph pictures. He also has portfolio site, although his blog has more examples at the moment.

Mike Nash paints gorgrous fantasy pieces in Corel Painter and Photoshop that look like they jumped out of a video game or horror movie. If you want to get in touch, his email is on the Commissions page.

German Casado has a nice collection of rough, sketchy work on his site. Check out the process section for visual notes on how he blocks in color to create form.

Toronto based Ted Kim’s concept work is a nice mix of street-style manga-ish characters coupled with digital paints and some heavy texturing.

Kim Smith’s portfolio looks good to go even if she does has some time left in university. Check out her wonderful concept work for her book on her site.

Singapore artist Ray Toh’s gorgeous digital paintings pays tribute to prominent video game and comic book characters. He also keeps a sketch blog which is peppered with his looser sketches and concepts.

Gloriously painted with beautiful expressions, Mike Thompson proves time and again he lives up to his title as the ‘hip-hop Norman Rockwell’.

Jose Cordova aka Necio does some nice digital paintings and concept artwork. However he’s also a competant motion graphics designer, who also makes his own music. 

Superheroes,  robots and Popeye all find a home within Caleb Prochnow’s portfolio. But while you’re on the site, visit his Sketchbook too for some awesome sketches of industrial equipment and architecture.

Fantasy, science-fiction and classic horror are the major subjects of UK based James Ryman’s impressive portfolio. For the inquisitive, click on the ‘How I work’ link of the left menu for an explanation of the artist’s methods in his own words.