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GuttyKreum is a Canada-based pixel artist. He is heavily influenced by both urban and rural Japan and tries to bring a feeling of nostalgia and calmness with every illustration. He creates pixel-art illustrations of places he dreams to explore. The history, culture and architecture of Japan captured his attention at a young age. To him, Japan contains the most beautiful and peaceful locations on earth.
Daniel Isles is a UK-born illustrator based in Hokkaido, Japan. Inspired by animation and comics, he started drawing from a very young age and continued to hone his craft over the years. His preferred tools of choice are pencil and ink, which allow him to create crisp clean lines in his unique signature style. The focus of his work often depicts characters wearing interestingly cool-attire in moments of time, with a sense of spirituality about them and the worlds they inhabit.
Gary Tonge is a seasoned digital artist. He began working in video games at 17 and has worked on > 50 games titles. In 2016, he left games to pursue charitable works and projects for good causes. He became well known in the early 2000’s due to his personal work at http://visionafar.com (started 1999) - the site regularly having 25-50k page views a week in those ancient web1 days! His works are predominantly hopeful and vistas to inspire the viewer - he creates his stills almost exclusively in Photoshop.
Jacqueline Choe is a young Korean-American artist who draws upon her past as a high school dropout and young internet star. Her independent work combines dark pop culture themes with sophisticated digital painting technique. Her works have won her awards within the contemporary art space (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine - Digital Category 2021) and have exhibited in physical and digital galleries (Haven Gallery, MoCDA).
Hiroki Matasubara is a wildlife and landscape photographer from Japan. Always fascinated and inspired by nature, he has been taking photographs all over Japan as a hobby for about five years and built up 80k + following on social media. He is active in the photography circuit, including writing articles for Nikon's official blog and photography magazines, serving as an ambassador for Panasonic, and selling goods in collaboration with companies.
Harlock is an Astro-photographer based in Japan. He would like to leave behind proof that he was on the earth by capturing the scenery of the universe and the earth in a single photograph, as well as spread positive energy. Award winning photographer Harlock was selected as a finalist in one of the world's largest starscape photography contests, ASTRO2022. He also won the Grand Prize in one of the largest starry landscape photography contests in Japan.
Idil Dursun is a Turkish architect, who has contributed to Venice Biennale Architettura 2021, and a CGI artist, working with architectural visualization company “ivaBOX”, creating cyberpunk/dystopian environment concepts. She played with various forms of paintings since a young age and was introduced to concept arts and cyberpunk culture via her interest in video games such as World of Warcraft. She decided to become a concept artist in university and create her own world.