Hidden Roads

Personal work. This guy's name's Ellarten Stoneheart. Arrogant, strong-willed, powerful. All in the worst sense. The antagonist in a story I'm writing (it's weird to even say this, but I actually am writing it).

Finished painting a character design, a demon shaman lady. A personal work.

An elven sorceress in cool green and blue tones with gold adornments. I wanted to create a soft and slightly ethereal vibe here.

An OC. A typical undead with typical white hair and typical yellow eyes. What can I say, I'm just a typical girl after all.

Fenris for #sixfanarts that I'm doing.

Hi. I'm Helen (or Ardariel) and I draw, paint and design fantasy characters!

Painted Jareth for the six fanarts game. I asked my followers to give me some ideas, which characters would look good in my style, and someone came up with Jareth in the very first comment! I was incredibly glad, never would've thought to paint him myself, but when I was asked to, the idea actually seemed so obvious. Anywaaaay, Jareth the Goblin King and his fancy costume. I so enjoyed looking at the references, the visuals of the movie are still to this day a treat to look at. (And Sarah is such a clever girl for not letting him get too close.)

A page of random head sketches, no one in particular, just imagination spilled on the page.

The comment section mentioned the photo was of an actress, but I forgot the name. I like how this turned out, although I'm still struggling to make my studies more stylized. I admire people who are able to manipulate the reference to a great degree and still get the resemblance in their work.

Made with traditional medium: pen and ink on Bristol paper, scanned and retouched a little in CSP.

Ink on bristol paper, scanned and touched up a little in CSP. Representing two major dnd or more generally, rpg classes, a mage and a warrior. 

Painted for a DTIYS held currently by Golightlyfinch on instagram. Lovely design and color combination, had to try my hand at it. 😊

Upd: Updated with a color correction version.

Hal, my OC, 2026 design version. Ye gods, I missed digital painting a lot.

I made a list of characters to do fanarts of this year. First comes this gentleman, Strahd von Zarovich. Strange how I read "I, Strahd" by P. Elrod when I was around 12-13, but never really tried to draw him, not even a sketch! Fixed that now.