30 Fascinating Fairy Concept Artworks

These enchanted mythical creatures play a significant part in many fantasy stories and playing different roles in many mainstream animations, movies and video games today.

Often portrayed as a female with magical wings similar to that of insects like butterflies and dragonflies in an ethereal or spiritual form, these mythical creatures we call fairies or faery or faerie dwell mostly in forests and having a significant part in many children stories and fairytales. Though they are popularly depicted to be small creatures the size of a butterfly, some artists depicts them to be normal humans. Some popular characteristics of fairies are having pointy ears like that of elves and elven creatures.

Most fairytales depicts them of having a magical wand and grants wishes to good humans like in stories of Cinderella and other children stories. Having a beautiful face with different colors in their hairs and flying with their wings which glows beautifully in the night is also popular. Just like other mythological creatures and gods, the stories of these supernatural beings are described to dwell in different places thus having differnt kind of fairies – like forests, water, wind, fire, trees, flowers, different seasons and many others. Also, not all fairies are described to be good and benevolent beings like in fairytales but are sometimes portrayed as evil spirits and sometimes uses their beauty to lure and cofuses people to wander in forests.