Howaida Salama

The City of Unfinished Loves — Gothic Visual Storytelling

An illustrated Gothic dark-fantasy world built around memory, unfinished love, recurring characters, symbolic storytelling, and cinematic environment design.

BEFORE MAN — Dark Fantasy Worldbuilding

What if a fantasy world was built not only through characters and places, but through its own visual language?

Before Man explores an original dark fantasy universe through character design, monumental environments, symbolic artifacts, maps,...

THE LAST GATE — An original cinematic dark fantasy universe built around the final boundary between two opposing realms.

What if a city could carry a thousand years of memory? City of a Thousand Years is an original fantasy worldbuilding and visual development project built around monumental architecture, atmosphere, history, and a unified visual identity. My goal was not to create isolated...