10 Illustrators to Discover in 2025

Spanish Illustrator and Domestika teacher Puño introduces us to some inspiring illustrators with unique styles from around the world

Earlier in the year, I wrote a post in the Domestika blog called ‘Puño recommends,’ in which I shared some of the illustrators whose work is a source of inspiration. Some of them are featured in this article to inspire you with their work, whichever your drawing or illustration style.

Click on their name highlighted in red if you want to learn more about them.

JooHee Yoon

South Korea

JooHee Yoon’s work is an exemplary demonstration that traditional and digital techniques can live together in harmony. They create a perfect symbiosis in which the digital evens out the rough side of the traditional processes, and at the same time, enhances their essence.

Maria Midttun

Norway

We have enjoyed observing this illustrator experimenting with different media over the last few years. She has achieved a very personal and coherent voice through her journey. Maria has undertaken the challenging path of minimalism: she got rid of more and more ornaments and undressed her images to their bare necessities.

Valerio Vidali

Italy

Valerio Vidali’s work is somewhat magnetic, which is unusual in our days of dizzyingly fast image consumption. He encourages us to enjoy his work at the speed at which he created it, i.e., very slowly. He establishes a tactic pact with the viewers by compelling them to relax, open their minds, and commit to the pace needed to enjoy his illustrations.

José Antonio Suárez Londoño

Colombia

Unless proven to the contrary, nobody draws better than José Antonio Suárez Londoño in Colombia. The peculiar thing is that there are apparently no characters or stories in his drawings. The author himself is his own character, the narrator who shows us his vision of the world. This vision needs no song and dance to attract us. Once you are drawn in, there is no escaping.

Sara Hagale

United States

Her drawings are neither sketches nor doodles, but they have the same simplicity, freshness, and spontaneity. I liken them to whispers. Her genius lies in her ability to transmit fantastic ideas and profound reflections through the subtle use of a simple set of lines and a splodge of oil pastel.

Luna Pan

Spain

Luna Pan is a comics illustrator and artist with a very personal and recognizable style, especially for those who are familiar with the Valencian school of the eighties. Her images call to mind Calatayud, Micharmut, and Sento, and sinuous shapes learned in France and soaked up in the Mediterranean. This young artist balances her compositions with flawless use of colors and black marks. Her illustrations are populated by women, intimate and welcoming environments, and a lot of love. To add to that, she draws exquisite cats and dogs.

Alex Gamsu Jenkins

United Kingdom

His extravagant experimentations with limited color palettes and deliberately transgressive anatomy and perspective create complex yet satisfactory narrative structures for the reader; these contrast with the accidental profane discourse one can perceive at first glance.

Amanda Baeza

Chile

Comics author and illustrator Amanda Baeza draws from the future or a different planet. She works in a space-time continuum that would take us ten years to reach if we could even get there. Each one of her comics is a visual and narrative endeavor where she dares to present a whole new language in every story, pushing us to read the story over and over again to appreciate her whirlwind semantics fully.

Woshibai

China

Despite his simplified style and the aseptic universe, Woshibai’s illustrations and comics are uncommonly, almost super-humanly, powerful. His narrative is equally strong: with surgical precision, he handles emotion and suspense, grabbing the viewer with engineered skill, possibly drawing on the experience gained as an art director for video games.

Núria Tamarit

Spain

Valencia-born Núria Tamarit’s illustrations appear to transcend the paper. They jump off the page to take a breath and spill over the frame. Her characters, with their distinctive profiles, their reddened knees and knuckles, and perfectly disproportionate limbs, are often seen frowning at the frantic activity happening around them.

This article was written by Puño (@puno), an illustrator who teaches the Domestika courses Drawing and Creativity for Big Little Artists, Drawing for Beginners Level -1, Creative Techniques for Aspiring Illustrators, and Creating Original Illustrations with a Tablet. Learn to unblock your creativity and make drawing your favorite medium of expression by signing up for one of his courses.

English version by @acesarato

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