Ariel Sargent
Illustration
Artist Statement
I’ve always had an overactive imagination, creating mental narratives with the creatures in the wood grain walls meeting the ones from the cracks in the windows.
I make art based in the real that bleeds into the imaginary. I distort this world. I enjoy that in making a piece I can be a storyteller without words.
I find myself being inspired by the world around me, fairytales, and myths I read as a child, and the notions of fantasy or discovery in pop culture that surround me.
Jorinda and Joringel: 2022 Digital Media 6x9
Nature’s Crown: 2022 Digital Media 8x12
The Enemy: 2022 Digital Media 7x10.5
Growing Together: 2022 Digital Media 6x18
Choose Your Player: 2022 Digital Media 20x9
Seven Types of Ambiguity: 2020 Digital Media 17x10
Embracing Differences: 2018 Digital Media 18x13.5
Shipwreck Sifter: 2022 Digital Media 11.5x9
I Think I Made You Up Inside My Head: 2022 Charcoal and Digital Media 9.25x12.5
Love Letter:2022 Digital Media 18x14
Reading in Motion: 2022 Digital Media 18x6
The Regal Feline: 2022 Acrylic and Digital Media 11x17
Parallel Universe: 2021 Acrylic and Digital Media 11x15
History Walker: 2022 Digital Media 12x18
Move the Stars: 2021 Digital Media 6x6
Artist Bio
Ariel Sargent is an illustrator from Frankfort, IL. She received her formal art education from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL where she graduated May 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and a minor in Art History.
Ariel’s main illustration focus is concept art for books, card games, and tabletop games, as well as the package design for such products. Art has always been a part of her life. As a child with a vivid imagination, she has seen these worlds that she has been able to share with others through art. She hopes that through her art she can speak to others and bring them joy.
After honing her skills in traditional work with colored pencil, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic paint (she’s still working on getting watercolor to be her friend), she began that artistic climb to learn digital art. She began to dabble in digital work within Sketchbook, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Her work now tends to find itself in a mixture of both traditional and digital media.
When Ariel isn’t making art she’s playing games with friends and family, figuring out crochet, reading fantasy and mystery books, binging TV shows, and going outside to enjoy what nature has to offer.