
Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
Storytelling Through Light & Color
Hi! My name is Heidi Ahmad. I am a freelance digital illustrator and character designer. I help studios, publishers & license buyers tell their stories through light & color so that their illustrations have a traditional feel with all the flexibility of digital art.
Check out my portfolio.
I graduated with honors from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Helwan University, Egypt, where I studied anatomy, figure drawing, perspective, landscape, composition, and colors. I continue to learn and improve to this day. You can follow my journey in my blog.
I started selling my art as a student and participated in several art galleries. The main paintings of my graduation project were sold to an Egyptian-Italian gallery owner.
In addition to working traditionally with pencils, markers, water colors, and pastels.... I also create digital paintings using my Wacom drawing tablet.
My first digital painting ever got me hired by a local animation studio to create unwrap portraits for their 3D characters. It was a portrait of Jack Nicholson and the studio wanted someone to create several textures, 1 of them having wrinkles, so I was hired. He found me on Behance.
The Market
175 cm * 125 cm
Oil on Canvas


My second digital painting - 2016 - Aswan

Award for my second digital painting
Even though I only started working digitally in 2016, my artistic experience transferred intact to the digital media that I won an award for my second digital painting.
I was then offered to be part of the editing team in the Design Guide Magazine, a magazine dedicated to Arab designers.
While Working as a freelance researcher, writer and translator for the magazine my goal was to bring two cultures together through art and to enrich the Arabic content.
I worked as a lip sync artist for Coincide, the studio that created the popular 3D animated series Bassant & Dyasti in Egypt, so I am pretty familiar with the animation workflow.
On a side note, learning traditional animation is on my to-do list.
Bassant & Diyasti Animated Series - Credits
One more thing...
I have super powers. Mum's the word.
Thanks for stopping by!
- Heidi