Sunny Eckerle / Brooklyn Bodega Cats

If you’ve ever visited Brooklyn you’ve probably walked by a bodega or ten, and in the process maybe noticed a cat who looked right at home. Sunny Eckerle captures these felines in an ongoing illustrated series, Brooklyn Bodega Cats, that captures and celebrates this unique part of the city and tells a bit of their stories.

Fumi Koike

My days are filled with my routine, my work, and my pets for the most part – I’m a homebody. The second I saw Fumi Koike‘s art that focuses on life’s domesticities I felt comforted. Those moments when we recognize a piece of ourselves in another can be breathtaking, especially when they’re captured so lovingly.

(via The Jealous Curator)

Laura Agusti / Ashdown Cats

This one goes out to all my fellow cat ladies! Laura Agusti‘s Ashdown Cats is my favorite series of her illustrations, many of which focus on animal-human hybrid species. These felines are total bohemians in style, their hair and wardrobes spill the truth.

Babeth Lafon

I’m feeling the work of Babeth Lafon in a major way this week. A lot of her work is for brands being as she got her start as a graphic designer/art director in France and Austria before relocating to Berlin. I have incredible amounts of respect for artists who bring their own style to big brand work and Babeth is a master. Some of her work is available for purchase in her shop.

Nettie Wakefield

Pencil might seem like the simplest medium to work with, but I’ve always found it far from that. Just because you can use an eraser doesn’t make it entirely forgiving. By now you should know of my obsession for any form of art dealing with hair, and I think that speaks to the difficulties I have in creating it myself. Nettie Wakefield has mastered the medium, and the hair, with aplomb.