Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle market of the beast

Will-o-wisp illuminates the face of a fea that has been shot protecting the boar in the background.

I really love a light source and other artist's abilities to make the viewer feel emersed in a time and place. So I'm playing with colors and glow a bit rather than working completely flat. (I still love experimenting, learning and changing)

Oh my gosh I got into San Diego Comic Con for the first time! I’m so excited 🥹

It’s so magical ✨🌙 I want to live there

A faun wearing grapes and a headband with gems beneath his face

A faun wearing grapes and a headband with gems beneath his face

I have some breathing room between events and have a bunch of things I want to finish and start. But here is a little warm up color practice of a faun

Mirrored werewolf transformation with a key tied around the wrists of the two characters. A graveyard scene is bellow, ferns flowers surround them

Loup Garou (werewolf) transformation inked in time for Halloween

Happy Birthday!

Thank you so much! I have not done the Philly oddities. (You did not miss me, but maybe in a year or so I’ll try applying to that one sometime 😊)

Thank you!

Last day of the Oddities Expo Seattle. I’m at Table T187 back towards the left hand corner of the event hall.

I’m so glad to hear you say it reads like that, thank you 😊

Thank you!!!

Thank you! That was the spot I was most nervous about.

Thank you that’s so kind of you to say!

Hahaha thank you so much, I sketch and ink traditionally and the paper ranges in size 9x12 is usually on the smaller size and 11x14 or 11x17 are my favorite (a lot of times I tape a bunch of paper together 😆 I get too excited when sketching and want to add more) so this one is 9x24

Thankkkk yoouuuuuu!!!! 😄

Thank you

Here is the other color version. When I think about pieces I am drawn too, I love a muted color pallet. I piece that looks like it's had a life, bleached by sun and time. The colors also remind me of the cold winter nights while on a moonlit snowshoe with my family in the forests of Vermont.

Zorya Sisters are done! Here is the first color version. I wanted to focus on playing with the Primary colors

Thank you!!!

I want to live in your art!!! It is so whimsical and set such a beautiful mood. 💕

Thank you!

Thank you that means a lot, I really love your work. Your color palettes are always so good.

Thank you so much!! 😊

Thank you!! 💕It makes me so happy when people say that. I love art nouveau and all the decorative details and being able to brake an image down into geometric shapes with flowing organic elements just clicks perfectly in my brain.

Thank you. I know, it was brutal for me to put it in. But I really like to be able to add little Easter eggs in my pieces (especially fanart, because it means something to the people who know)

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Helen, A freelance Illustrator inspired by art nouveau. I love mythology and folklore, dark creepy things, and Queer love.

I'd love to work on more TTRPG, Book covers/comic book covers, Posters, packaging illustration

Portfolio: helenmask.com
📧 thehemask@gmail.com

I woman is shot with arrows after protecting a boar. Will-o-wisp float in the bottom corner

Another one inked!

So cute

Thank you, they keep my very busy. I have one more shiba, my little old lady

Thank you! It always feels good to complete the inking stage, my goal is always to be able to make a stand alone piece in black and white first. (Then see how it feels with color)