Hello everyone,

Today I'm gonna tell you about two of my favourite artists on dA who happen to share a common gender: `loish and *janaschi

`loish a.k.a Lois Van Baarle, a young artist from Netherlands and former animation student, has been part of the dA community for a long time now. Through her various pages (dA of course but also sketchblog, youtube and her own website) she offers us an evergrowing collection of colorful portraits and animations, mostly variations (consciously or not) of her own image showing an unfading almost trademark smile. A faint, although never glum, nostalgia, the use of beautiful digital oranges and blues as well as several occurences of sea animals and retro pin-ups were definitely made to please me

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*janaschi, who's been a dA member for almost exaclty as long, is a german digital painter whose work has stunned me from the very beginning. This girl has an amazing talent for portraits as many of her friends featured in her gallery could tell and her use of digital coloring (with an emphasis on - guess what - orange !) is delightul. Her latest works has been more realistic though, including stunning pieces on reflecting materials. Her submissions includes many collaborations with her fellow artist *algenpfleger (who I also strongly recommend), notably her very latest, "Raupture" an interesting birthday present to say the least which seems to cause a lot of ruckus because of its very daring nature. Well, I'll let you judge as it's the one I've chosen to display here

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Gotta love these girls...