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Musk ox like creature with large bug-like white armored plates and spikes along it's back and long tail. It's head is armored with a large plate that then extend to spiked horns on top of its head and curled horns to the side. This creature also has 3 gill-like nostrils on the side of it's nose along with main large nostrils on the front in order to warm the thick cold air in which it lives.

Female bipedal humanoid wolf fantasy character with Native American inspired outfit, skirt, and shawl. There are red Native American inspired patterns along the bottom of her skirt and shoulder shawls. She has her right hand raised with red glowing magic in it and her left hand is pointed toward the ground and has a slight red glow to it as well.

Small halfling ranger with a dark cloak and a bow rides a large gray wolf through a snowy forest at sunrise.

Vottrik

Vottrik Creature Design

Vokodo and the Star Razor
(Critical Role Fanart)

Bipedal female ungulate like character (takin like face). Head has two curved horns going out to the side and then two additional twisted horns going back. Hands only have 4 fingers with hoove like nails at the end. Bottom feet are cloven hooves. Character is walking forward and holding a withered wooden staff that is as tall as the character. Outfit is a vest and skirt with bands with tuffs of fur along her arms and horns.

Oshkapeers or Dreamers are creatures from the MoonFall Saga by James Rollins. Artwork done by Danea Fidler, creatures copyrighted James Rollins. Dreamers are dark octopus like creatures with crustacean-like plating on its head and tentacles, a ring of black eyes around the body, barbed suckered tentacles, and spikes and glowing iridescent stripes on its head. There’s a fully detailed dark sketch of a Dreamer from the side with its tentacles flowing in the water. Then there’s sketches of it crawling on the ground, one coming at the viewer with tentacles outspread for an attack, one of it resting on the ground, and two of the Dreamer swimming the water.

Caduceus Clay and the Nine Eyes
(Critical Role Fanart)

A female/non-binary (she/they) bipedal anthropomorphic greater one horned rhino and Asian elephant creature in Nepal/ South Asian inspired clothing and jewelry holding a large glowing green emerald.

Zombie Bear standing on hind legs roaring into the sky.

Orkso are creatures from the MoonFall Saga by James Rollins. Artwork done by Danea Fidler, creatures copyrighted James Rollins. Orkso are narwal like creatures with four legs (instead of fins), one long tusk on the front of its nose, and stingray like “wings” between the front and back legs with a long otter like tail. There’s a basic side sketch of the Orkso swimming, three sketches of it swimming through the water in different poses, one of it standing on land looking back, and one sketch of the Orkso standing on land with its head and tusk in the air showing off.

Tirgaik Creature Design

Tirgaik

Skycrow creatures from the Starless Crown by James Rollins. Black raven kite bird creature with large wings and a mohawk of feathers that carries messages in a container strapped to its back. There's one sketch of the underside of a skycrow flying with its wings fully extended, one very detailed portrait displaying that these birds are black and have feathered mohawks, one sketch of it sitting with wings partially folded and looking over its shoulder with the message tube on its back, two of a skycrow sitting with wings folded, and an unfinished sketch of it flying.

Male African lion laying on top of large rock basking in the sun with a dark sky behind him.

Allos Vulture Creature Design

Kentruro Wolf Creature Design

Acrylic painting of a red border collie on a farm at sunset.

The Denizens of Fangs are creatures from the MoonFall Saga by James Rollins. Artwork done by Danea Fidler, creatures copyrighted James Rollins. These creatures include a stingray like creature with spines and 3 tails, a large and weird spider with a large spiked abdomen, a large “boulder-like” toad with one eye and sharp teeth, and a spiderweb nest with a cluster of fanged worms hanging from a cave ceiling.

On the left is a long narrow watercolor painting of a black wolf walking down cliff side with a red tailed hawk flying above. Colors are done in blues and minor oranges.
On the right is a long narrow watercolor painting of a gray wolf walking down cliff side with a raven flying above. Colors are done in purples, reds, and oranges.

Tugruk Creature Design

Guaok Creature Design

Bullock creatures from the Starless Crown by James Rollins. Huge swamp pachyderm like creatures with hunched backs, long thick legs, a small trunk like nose, medium sized ears, two small horns behind the ears, and large curved tusks like a warthog. Its belly, neck, and underside has some long (usually wet) fur hanging down off of it. Moss and swamp vegetation cover its tusks, head, and back. There's one full body sketch of a bullock walking in a swamp, one unfinished and one finished sketch eating vegetation in deep swamp water, one laying down, and two sketches of a bullock harnessed to some sort of cart and pulling it through swamp water.

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