Constanze von Kitzing, 26, was born in Germany, educated at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in the United States, and has returned to Hamburg, Germany to work at an art studio. Her impressive portfolio (connevonkitzing.de) includes mixed-media illustrations, simple gestural pencil sketches and studies, album cover art, and animated shorts.

It is hard to imagine anything but a successful career in art for Constanze's promising talent. She seems to favor people's faces, and the intricacies of emotion captured in different expressions, colors and lines. Body language and composition are all-important in her work.