Ladies, do you love drawing but often hide away your illustrations in your sketchbooks or an online folder? Not anymore! Now you can reveal your hidden creative genius and show it off to the whole world. A few months ago, a website called Women Who Draw has been launched only for female illustrators to directly put their artwork in front of various art directors, editors and others who want to hire talented illustrators.

So, stop considering your drawings or sketches as mere doodles, just take them out and upload on the website to let the whole world adore your creativity. Now just showcasing your talent, but the site is also a platform to develop your signature brand, follow some top female illustrators, be you and draw without stress, and even take online lessons to improve your creative skills.

 

The artists who sign up on the website will further have to specify their identity in terms of race/ethnicity and religion. This way the art directors will easily be able to find artists from different regions of the world and also the illustrators with less-visible statuses. The site will create a signpost, and after that, it’s up to the art directors to choose the work and the people.

It is a perfect online platform for those female artists who have faced any sort of uphill battle to get recognition for their creative work. Regardless of the professional needs, this artistic website will also intrigue art admirers who all day browse artworks online.

According to the website’s ‘about us’ page, the website’s founder is an anonymous group of female illustrators “in response to the disproportionately low number of women illustrators commissioned and hired by some prominent U.S. publications.” Moreover, the website also aims to collaborate with trans and gender-nonconforming artists.

Women Who Draw has also joined with some similar-minded projects like the Cartoonists of Color Database, the Queer Cartoonists Database, and Writers of Color. Many art directors are already praising this website and their initiative to promote female illustrators. If you haven’t already, then do check out this amazing website now. It definitely deserves your eyeballs. The artist!

Here are some of the artists and design studios that your can follow on Instagram.

I seriously need to stop procrastinating ? here’s my cousin and her boo thang ?? #art #artist #drawing #sketch #pencil #pencildrawing

A post shared by Jahnay (@jahnayyy) on Feb 18, 2017 at 5:02pm PST

Happy International Women’s Day! Here is a sneak peek of the campaign I created for @virgin featuring nine brave, inspiring, badass women. ???♀️#BeBoldForChange

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Safari #workspacegoals ??? Regram via: @susiebrown in the USA ?? Time to mix it up with a wood-walled workspace filled with thrifted finds, plants + of course…that giraffe! ? This space belongs to Susie @saltandhoneybakingco. Would you believe the chair is a $5 Craigslist find?!! ???? Thanks Susie for inspiring us today with your stunning workspace ?? We love your giraffe ???

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One down, four to go #finals #littlered #digital #wolfy thanks for everything @davidhohnillo ?✨?

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