Hara Katsiki is a visual artist originally hailing from Greece who expresses her creative vision across various types of media ranging from drawing, painting, graphic design, animation, and music. I encourage everyone to check out her Tumblr page to give her music a listen.

Texas born illustrator AJ Frena uses both watercolor and digital art as the mediums to create work that blends nature with abstract.

Daria Endresen is a digital artist/photo-manipulator that works out of Oslo, Norway and Paris, France. "The time heals not all wounds. There is humans, those bleeds a life long. That is the price, which pay the protection among us. Certainly they are admired, perhaps even loved – nevertheless they bleed – each day – each hour… You do not see correctly. Nobody does that."

I couldn't resist sharing the works of Mark Styling after coming across his body of work on the interwebs. Styling creates historically accurate illustrations of actual military aircraft that were in operation during WWII and the Korean War (B-17, B-24, B-26, B-29, PBY Catalinas among many others) including matching serial number or bureau number, aircraft number, unit markings, crew names and nose art with classic pin-up girls.

Franz Falckenhaus is an artist originally from Bartoszyce, Poland, but is currently based out of the city of Krakow. Falckenhaus is a self-taught artist, and it was his life-long interest in photography, film, and collage art that motivated him to pursue art as a career. Most of Falckenhaus' work is created digitally comprised of carefully selected vintage illustrations.

Siyu Chen is a Chinese illustrator that studied in Beijing and New York City receiving her MFA at The School of Visual Arts. She works with both traditonal and digital mediums in her work that helps to create an interesting and unique surreal juxtaposition through her imagery. She is currently living in Germany working internationally designing books, magazines, and newspapers.

Jeff Dillon is currently based out of Baltimore, Maryland where he continues to work as an illustrator and designer. Dillon uses a combination of traditional and digital techniques in his work to achieve the visual style that is present throughout his body of work.

Marcin Owczarek is an artist originally hailing from Wroclaw, Poland who draws influences from Tibetan Book of the Dead, as well as his studies in cultural anthropology to create his "antiutopian" world in his art. Owczarek combines photography and digital manipulation to create his dark and gritty pieces...let's all hold hands and step in together.

Emile Morel is a French digital artist based out of Lyon, France who creates illustrations of surreal imaginary worlds.

Yana Moskaluk is a Russian illustrator that portrays beautiful work heavily inspired by fairytales and fantasy. She was also featured back in April 2010.

Émilie Léger is an artist and a graphic design student based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Although digital art and writing are her main means of creating, she prioritizes effect, texture and emotion over the medium itself.

Magdalena Kapinos is an artist hailing from Szczecin, Poland who creates digital paintings that borders between surreal and abstract forms. Today, we check out some of Kapinos' work as well as taking a peak at some of her works in progress.

Adrien Patout hasn't missed a beat since we last saw her work back in April 2012, and it's still raunchy when she wants it to be. Patout is currently based out of Paris, France where she continues to pump out both traditional and digital pieces.

Emir Šehanović is an artist hailing from Bosnia-Herzegovina who uses digitally manipulated images and vintage photos in a collage-like format to create these very unique figurative pieces. For his work, Šehanović will use both traditional collage mediums as well as combining digital techniques to achieve the particular look and emotion in his pieces.

David Cooley is a mixed media artist that captures wandering viewers into a psychedelic realm that's indeed so fresh, vivid, and clean. The Southern California based artist has a unique cut-and-paste style combined with textiles and patterns by using acrylics, pens, spray paints, resin, and fabrics.

Currently based out of Barcelona, Spain, Javier Gonzalez Pacheco is an artist who creates both traditional and digital figurative paintings, as well as detailed pen drawings from time-to-time. Today, we present a bit of a sampler of Pacheco's work with all of you sexy EK-philes...Happy Sunday folks.

Erik Jones's sexy, colorful and versatile collection, which ranges from traditional paint to digital art, was first featured on July 2011. Here is another visit into the wonderful place where symmetry and surrealism collide harmoniously. 

A little digital illustration, intriguing sculptures, some ceramics, and bit of traditional fine art painting, artist Meagan Jenigen does it all. Jenigen is currently based out of Baltimore, Maryland, USA where she continues her pursue her craft.

[Photo by: Lauren Treece] The beginning is, in fact, finally here. After shifting through exactly 1470 posts for the entire 2012 calendar year, a dozen pots of coffee made, several holes punched in the drywall during heated deliberations, and several concussions suffered from office supplies hurled at each others' heads, we proudly present the third annual EMPTY KINGDOM TOP 100 Artists of 2012!

Grégoire Guillemin has a knack for taking simple shapes and transforming them into universal symbols of pop culture. His latest series is the anthropomorphism of the icons we call super heroes, through a pop art rendition of what goes down when they are off the clock and no one is looking.