10 Projects Celebrating Pride in 2023

To celebrate Pride Month, we have compiled our top 10 works of art from the Domestika community.

Art is a powerful tool for personal expression and during Pride Month, the opportunity to see self-expression and sharing artistic ideas that explore gender and sexual diversity through painting, illustration, photography, video and more is a wonderful opportunity.

As Pride Month comes to a close, we wanted to share this inspiring list of 10 works of art recently created by our wonderful community of Domestika students and teachers that celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities.

1. Pride by Alejandra Acosta

In the month of Pride, Graphic Designer Alejandra Acosta carried out this assignment for the La Fuente Foundation, which works to promote reading in different regions of Chile.

2. Pride! By Bett Norris

Pride! Is a work of art by illustrator and Domestika teacher, Bett Norris. Bett made this piece to celebrate LGBTQA pride month 2022 - the inspiration was the different people seen in Queer spaces and at the pride festival in Bett’s hometown of Bristol.

3. Artistic photographic self-portrait: Pride month by Lucas Waidelich

Created as part of a project for Domestika, photographer Lucas Waidelich loves being able to express himself through the self-portrait, from being able to tell experiences to also symbolizing collective struggles. For this reason, in the month of pride Lucas decided “to create this self-portrait in demonstration of the struggle that the entire movement entails, beyond a flag (which has a strong identity weight), making it clear that not everything is rosy, where coexist so many years of fighting against bullying, violence and injustice, which are often not measured. However, it is important not to stop recognizing and celebrating your own identity, to celebrate all the progress that could be achieved. Let no one tell you how to be or how to be in this world.”

4. Create Your World - Commission for DeviantArt celebrating Pride Month by Jonas Jödicke

Fascinated by imaginary worlds, creatures and animals, Jonas Jödicke is a digital fantasy artist from Berlin and teacher for Domestika who created this artwork as a commission for DeviantArt celebrating Pride Month. As a 14-year-old Jonas discovered digital painting and soon began building an online fanbase that has grown to more than half a million followers across my social media profiles.

5. Pure Pride by Nicole Newman Carillo

Nicole Newman Carillo, creator of Pecora Craft, is an industrial designer specialized in jewelry design and goldsmithing.

6. Pride (Markers + Digital) by Caio Yo

Caio Yo is a Brazilian illustrator, cartoonist and teacher for Domestika. Caio's main influences are manga artists and classical illustration and engraving

7. Pride Month by Mary Cagnin

Mariana Cagnin is trained in Visual Arts by Unesp and has been working as an illustrator and cartoonist for more than ten years. She is also a teachwer for Domestika on illustration in photoshop.

8. My Sticker Pack by Ben Jewkes

My Sticker Pack was created by designer Ben Jewkes
celebrating Pride Month in 2023.

9. PRIDE: Sylvia Rivera by Celeste Vargas Hoshi

Celeste Vargas Hoshi is a teacher for Domestika and an illustrator with experience in the editorial field.

10. PRIDE by Antonio Gonzalez

PRIDE is an illustration by illustrator Antonio Gonzalez. Focusing on illustration with prisma color, graphite and digital colors. Telling stories through his illustrations has been a life-long passion.