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

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.

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.

Aztai Costume Design Options

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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

Tirgaik Creature Design

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.

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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