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Danea Fidler
Illustrations & Creations
Illustration | Creature Design | Scientific Illustration | Wildlife Art

Scratch and the owlbear cub from Baldur's Gate 3 sleeping together at camp. Scratch is a white shepherd dog and curls up in front of the larger brown and white owlbear cub. They are in a forest camp with rocks behind them and a red tent in the background.

Two female lions on a rock-like mound made of purple and blue galaxy star dust. One lion is laying down on the right and the other standing behind on the left, both are looking to the right. Lions are glowy purple with blue shadows, and stars are flowing from their eyes into space in the upper right hand corner.

Tiger walking away from viewer looking back over shoulder. Tiger is slightly glowing green with green fire all along is back with green embers flowing off the fire. It’s eye is also glowing green. Environment is dark and simple with a blue and orange mist in the background.

Wuukor red moon buffalo/ bison creature concept from Critical Role.

Flesh colored elk horror creature with 10 elk legs, massive antlers like tree branches tangling with glowing eyes at the end of branches of antlers, no facial features, and two large human arms protruding from its shoulders. Creature is very thin with ribs showing and tree roots growing from antlers across back of neck and back. 7 large red amber bubbles are on side of neck/body.

Aztai Character Design
Bipedal humanoid non-binary cinerous vulture based character design. Character is flying in a “standing pose” with wings out, looking at the viewer with right hand up and holding a staff in left hand. Character has blue mohawk on top of head, red kimono-like top with white/purple flower designs and teal cuffs. Red top is then wrapped in teal, purple, and blue fabric around torso and waist (like belts). Right sleeve is a bell sleeve, while left one is regular. Left shoulder is covered in brown fur. They then have a deep red skirt with white fur lining the bottom. Right hip is covered in brown fur and left has a tan shawl covering lined with white fur with patterns. Shawl patterning has a purple line around edges outlined in red with tan stitching in center of purple and a symbol in the center of the shawl with teal triangle/ spiral, blue diamonds, red dot and red arrows to look a bit like a bird foot. Ankles have red and teal leg cuffs lined with white fur. They also have two necklaces that are made of red and teal beads, natural stones, claws, and fangs. Wings and tail have blue “tattoos” on top and underside of feathers. Left eye is purple with a glowing green pupil with purple “lightning” like veins running up face over gray skin into the eye.
Aztai Character Design
Bipedal humanoid non-binary cinerous vulture based character design. Character is flying in a “standing pose” with wings out, looking at the viewer with right hand up and holding a staff in left hand. Character has blue mohawk on top of head, red kimono-like top with white/purple flower designs and teal cuffs. Red top is then wrapped in teal, purple, and blue fabric around torso and waist (like belts). Right sleeve is a bell sleeve, while left one is regular. Left shoulder is covered in brown fur. They then have a deep red skirt with white fur lining the bottom. Right hip is covered in brown fur and left has a tan shawl covering lined with white fur with patterns. Shawl patterning has a purple line around edges outlined in red with tan stitching in center of purple and a symbol in the center of the shawl with teal triangle/ spiral, blue diamonds, red dot and red arrows to look a bit like a bird foot. Ankles have red and teal leg cuffs lined with white fur. They also have two necklaces that are made of red and teal beads, natural stones, claws, and fangs. Wings and tail have blue “tattoos” on top and underside of feathers. Left eye is purple with a glowing green pupil with purple “lightning” like veins running up face over gray skin into the eye.

Eldritch long limbed humanoid creature with a wolf skull as a head with many teeth, mouths with sharp teeth covering its body, and tentacles protruding from black mist on its back.

Snow leopard sitting at night in the fog on rocky outcropping. Snow leopard has glowing eyes and is holding a lit lantern in its mouth.

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.

Snow leopard creature with horns and spiny scales all over body standing on rocky snowy cliffside.

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

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.

Zombie bear standing on hind legs rawring into air.

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

Portrait painting of cinereous vulture facing to the side with a simple blurred background.

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.

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