Recommended Body Positive Artists

Sanne’s work is so incredibly delightful to me. Her characters look so content in their bodies. Seeing their happiness in turn makes me happy!

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Soosh is one of my absolute favorites. She works in watercolor and creates such a feeling of intimacy between the viewer and the art. In addition to fat women she also paints beautiful pieces of a fat father with his daughter.

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Tara’s style is charming. She does a lot of custom commissions for portraits, and really finds a way to capture the person’s essence perfectly, through flat color and interesting patterns (particularly in the fun backgrounds she adds). Love her!

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Jovanna uses such a creative and unique style to draw her people. Often inspired by photos of body positive Instagrammers, they all look completely unapologetic for their size and shape. Rock on.

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I find Jordyn’s work arresting — it has a soberness about it. I can’t stop looking at her characters and wondering more about them. Who are they communicating with? What are they thinking and feeling?

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Kripa draws the delightful Miss Moti, “an ordinary woman with an extraordinary imagination”. I love that Miss Moti’s size is not the focus of the comics at all. It shows that fat people deserve to be the subject of stories that aren’t about weight.

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Tatiana’s illustrations are beautiful, characterized by large fields of solid color. This particular drawing features Gabi Fresh, a popular plus-size model with her own swimwear line.

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Allison created the Body Love: A Fat Activism Coloring Book, featuring icons in the body positive community. How frigging cool is that?!

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Marie’s plus-size women always look so comfortable in their own skins — something for us all to aspire to. I love these pieces with the flowers in particular!

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Frances depicts women in a raw and unfiltered way, complete with rolls, stretch marks and body hair. In a world where women are usually polished beyond recognition, she celebrates the authentic female form.

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Eva specializes in art depicting plus-size fashion and her pieces ooze body positivity. I love the message in this one, and there is more in store for you at her site!

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Nathanael is an incredibly soulful person who has great reverence for the female form in all its shapes and sizes, and does it great honor in his artwork. His tagline is “I can see your beauty”.

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Paige’s characters are beautifully curvy, and range from everyday girls (as pictured here) to gorgeous mermaids. I love the amazing saturated colors she uses in all of her pieces.

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Moose Kleenex is a Toronto-based illustrator who draws beautiful art featuring bodies of all shapes and sizes. My favorites are ones like the one I’ve included here, which show women looking completely content in their bodies.

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Ditte Marie’s drawings are very eclectic, but her appreciation of larger bodies comes through in all of her various drawing styles.

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Edull is a Brazilian artist who believes we need more representation of plus-sized women in the media. He is perhaps best known for his work showing the Disney princesses as plus-sized women.

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Nikki’s pen and ink drawings overlaid onto fields of beautiful textures and patterns are absolutely stunning. She loves curvy female forms and truly does them high honor with her beautiful pieces.

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Lady at Large

Lady at Large creates art to celebrate the fat female form and reclaim the idea of beauty for larger women. I love her ladies with kitties in particular!

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Woman of Heart and Mind

Woman of Heart and Mind draws the most delightful curvy women who look like they are truly loving life, from doing handstands to eating cookies to dancing. I particularly love her “A Feminist Alphabet” series.

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