Brooklyn artist Lisa Hanawalt creates imaginative, humorous, and brightly colored worlds in her drawings, often depicting anthropomorphic animals.

Hanawalt’s work has been featured in The NY Times, Vanity Fair, and Glamour, among others, and her book “My Dirty Dumb Eyes” is being published by D+Q in Spring 2013. 

These delightful and strange little drawings are by Yoyo the Ricecorpse, a.k.a 木匣子与圆脸兔. (I have no idea what that says, but Facebook calls her Yo Zhao.)

Yo is a female artist living in London, but otherwise all we know about her is that she has a unique and quirky vision. You can buy prints of her work at her Society 6 shop.

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Ben Geiger dabbles in everything from design to photography to sculpture to create a world of his own imagination. In this series entitled Abstract Animals, the artist developed illustrations that blur the lines between realistic portrayals and his own inventive depictions of the creatures. The basic structure of each animal drawing is true-to-life, but then the artist uses his creativity to build complex textures with swirls of lines and color.

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Frieke Verle is an Illustration art student, based in Bruges, Belgium. Her work has a gentleness to it, an almost-sad softness, that I find very endearing. You can find more of her work on her Tumblr and her Flickr Photostream.

Here’s a bit of absurd art for you, courtesy of the mystifying and compelling Pablo Jones-Soler, currently studying illustration at the Camberwell College of Art in the U.K. These drawings are from a series entitled “Cruise 2.0” and can’t be fully grasped or appreciated in one quick glance. Jones-Soler’s work commands that you sit with it a while and study his intentions. While the illustrations have the lightness of a cartoon, the messages are more serious. The thought behind each piece is, in my opinion, quite brilliant. 

See more of Jones-Soler’s work over on his Tumblr site.

I need someone to translate the writing featured in these delightful drawings for me, as I understand very little French except for “oui” and “pizza” and “pinot noir” and “Itza ME! Mario!.”

But I DON’T need someone to tell me that this artist, who doesn’t have any personal information available on his/her Tumblr page except for the mysterious nom de plum (Okay, I lied, I know so much French, see?) “Valoushkaa,” is exceptionally talented with a great heart and a desire to imprint the world. Valoushkaa draws sad old men on park benches and does street grafitti of words like “Hope,” and generally just makes me smile, especially when he/she tries to write in English but has terrible grammar. I want to know more!!!

These drawings by young artist Kellesimone Waits are part of a series called “What’s Your Power Animal?” and reflect Waits’ whimsical sense of humor and thoughtful warmth, which translates to all of her works. Waits works in a variety of mediums and is heavily influenced by her lifelong consumption of literature, ranging from poetry to children’s books.

I would love to see her interpretation of me as a snow leopard.

Pete Oswald is a brilliant animator and illustrator, and now he’s joined Tumblr! His drawings spark of humor and imagination. I hope he posts more of his personal creations on his new site, although you can see his work in children’s films like “Madagascar 2,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “ParaNorman,” and “Hotel Transylvania.”

Who doesn’t like a girl with an attitude? I’m loving the sass of Madéleine Flores, an Orlando-based comic. Her works alternate from sweet to dark, and it’s all great. The girl has even written a graphic novel, titled “The Girl and the Gorilla.” Beautiful, funny, talented AND published? I hate her.

If you like these pieces, you’ll also enjoy Madéleine’s weekly comic series Witch and Knight.

I, being a very good and faithful Tumblr user, always do a fist-pump of joy when I get a new follower. And, being a very good and faithful Tumblr user, I almost always follow the person who sought me out right back. Sometimes, this is a remarkably fortunate occasion, such as when I clicked over to Natalie Krim’s site and discovered a truly remarkable talent.

Natalie is a New York-based illustrator, and her works are just incredibly charming. She specializes in drawing (often topless) women and animals (see her series collections “Babes” and “Beasts,” respectively - the above drawings are from “Beasts”). Her uploaded works are limited at the moment, so hopefully we’ll get to see more from her soon.

I… Guys. I don’t even know what to say. I’m so in love with this kid I want to shove a million home-baked chocolate chip cookies down his throat while showering him with hundreds of gold doubloons even though I have no idea what a doubloon looks like while he gets covered in puppy kisses. Because this talented little artist deserves to know all sides of happiness, and because he just plain reminds me of myself, except much smarter/funnier/better in general.

Who is he? Séamus Gallagher, a 17 year old artist from Canada. His drawings are perfect, his personality divine. Just go to his Tumblr site now. If you like him as much as I do maybe we can throw him an imaginary party so glorious that he dies.

And if for some reason you don’t appreciate this kid’s brilliance, don’t worry - it just means you’re too happy and well-adjusted.

Since today’s post was about my crazy corgi, this seemed like a fitting accompanyment. 

This series of corgi illustrations is by the fantastic artist Jessica Stasie Hunter. I love the whimsy in these drawings - she perfectly captures the madness of the breed. Hunter is an illustration student (with a business minor) at Grand Valley State University. My guess? She’ll do just fine in the art world after she graduates. She’s got talent and a unique sensibility that will set her apart. Plus, she draws corgis, and people lose their minds over those dogs, so she’ll always have plenty of fans (myself included).

You can view more of Hunter’s work on her Facebook page, Jessica Illustrates.