Yuu Watase is DEFINITELY my #1 o.o She is amazing!
I also like
Ai Yazawa
Aya Nakahara
Oh Great!
Takeshi Obata
Yusuke Murata
Eiichiro Oda
Chica Umino
Hino Matsuri
and
Karuho Shiina
I'm a huge fan of Shikimi artworks, and Amano Yoshitaka.
Little Thunder is a great artist as well, I have a mass artist archive on my external harddrive.
Out of retorical curiosity, why aren't more people posting examples?
Not everybody who looks at your post will automatically know who you're talking about; and as a side thought one can't help but realize that by posting an image you might in a way be helping your favorite artist by giving him or her some new fans.
The fave of mine are many but the ones that strike me to the core In Manga:
Nakamura Yoshiki - Skip Beat
Sakisaka Io - Strobe Edge
Kure Yuki - La Corda D'Oro
Shiina Karuho - Kimi ni Todoke
Motomi Kyousuke - Dengkai Daisy
Matsuzuki Kou- Shiawase Kissa Sanchoume
Hino Matsuri - Vampire Knight, Captive Hearts, Meru Puri, WANTED
In Anime:
Skip Beat, La Corda D'oro, Vampire Knight, Zombie Loan, Jounjou Romantica, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi
The devil survivor anime sure makes u curious wht's gonna happen next ^.^
Naoki Urasawa,
Osamu Tezuka,
Hiromu Arakawa,
Mike Mignola
Kazue Kato
Monkey Punch
Yasuhiro Nightow,
Kohta Hirano
Takeshi Obata
Too many other peoples to list
Animation
The peoples at Studio Bones
Ghibli
Production IG
Older Disney
Klasky Csupo
That rare moment when Gonzo doesn't fail completely at a series