Ariel Burgess
Ariel grew up in the Washington, D.C area.
She has an associates of Web Design that she earned at Montgomery College. During her semester she painted the Wheel of Time playing cards and was diagnosed with Dyslexia. She has since branched out towards film, story-boarding and concept art. She was an Official artist for The Wheel of Time from 2012 to 2019 and has been published internationally. Her first publication was in “Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics”. Ariel has won a Geeky award for “best licensed Toy/product for the Wheel of Time playing cards”, was published in “The Wheel of Time Companion” which was nominated for a World Fantasy award, and Won a Gold Award for Digital Expression in 2019 from International Film Festival DC Web Fest. Ariel has also Won People’s Choice and Best in show at JordanCon for four years. See her online resume at LinkedIn.
Awards /
Works of Note
Won Best in Show and Judges Choice Multiverse 2021 Art show and Judges Choice in 2022
Published in JordanCon Anthology Book 2022-2023
Geekie Awards "Best Licensed Toy/Game Product"
Officially Licensed Wheel of Time artist 2012 - 2019. Products Hundreds of pieces of art for The Wheel of Time.
Published in Queens of the Quill Anthology Book 2022
Gold Award Winner for Digital Expression 2019 DC Web Fest
People's Choice Best Art JordanCon 2021, 2018, 2015, 2016.
Judges choice at JordanCon 2014
Stan Lee's How to Draw comics! page:86
"Ariel was really great to work with. I had some definite ideas of what I wanted for the book cover for "Damselle in Distress" and gave them to her and she did a great job working them into the art, as well as creating some really clever ideas of her own. She poured a lot of time and effort into it, and I really appreciated the fact that she wanted to make it the best it could be."
~ Kiley Kellermeyer, Author of “Damselle in Distress”
Testimonials
"The client is impressed, I'm happy with the product. Everyone is super impressed with both her work ethic and quality.
They can't stop talking about it."
~ James Fox, CEO Dawnrunner Productions
"Thanks a million yet again. I'm really very very very happy with it. It's all I could ever hope for, you really managed to paint what I had in my head."
~ Sophie
"What a joy to work with! Ariel is intuitive, collaborative, and has outstanding instincts. I know it's a cliche' but her figures really do "come alive," each an individual with a personality all their own. The very competitive price was simply the "icing on the cake!" I look forward to working with her again... and again... and again!"
~ J. H. Moore, Author of the “Elfwatcher Chronicles”