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Danea Fidler ✨Open for Work✨
@daneafidler.bsky.social
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daneafidler.com | [email protected]
Human Artist - Open for Work!

🎨Creature Designer, Illustrator, Animal Artist🎨 (She/Hers)
✦ wildlife, anatomy, nature nerd ✦ CR critter ✦

NorthStar Games - NATURE | Grand Gamer's Guild - Endangered: Australia
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Danea Fidler ✨Open for Work✨ @daneafidler.bsky.social · Jan 13
Hello #PortfolioDay !

I’m Danea, a freelance illustrator, animal artist, and creature designer currently working in board games, TTRPGs, and books. I draw and paint all kinds of animals and creatures.

✨Currently open for new work!

🎨daneafidler.com
🔗linktr.ee/daneafidler
✉️[email protected]
Box cover for Endangered: Australia board game by Grand Gamers Guild. Depicts mother koala in center of image, sitting in between twisting eucalyptus tree branches going up diagonally to the right and left of the mother koala. Body of mother koala is in 3/4th view with front facing towards the left and back up against the tree brand on the right. Face in facing directly forward looking at the viewer. Baby koala in in between front paws of the mother, resting on the tree brand coming up on the left, looking directly at the viewer. Koalas are surrounded with twisting branches and eucalyptus leaves that have white flowers on them, with a blue sky in the background Artwork for Endangered: Australia by Grand Gamers Guild. Piece is a digital painting of a giant barred frog in three quarter view, standing on a pile of browned leaves, sticks, and foliage. Illustration is a marker, ink, and digital fantasy painting of a snow leopard walking towards the viewer around a rock outcropping that is at an angle going from the top middle of the images down to the bottom left corner. Snow leopard has its head down, left front leg coming forward, and the right going up and back. The back half of the leopard is hidden by the rock outcropping. This image is painting in blues and pinks, with the leopard primarily being in bright teals and dark navy blues. Background has pinks and purples, and the rock outcropping in the foreground is dark navy blues. Light is coming from the back right of the snow leopard. The leopard eyes are glowing a bright blue teal with that cracks into the face. The back of the leopard is glowing a bright teal as well and fades into snow coming off its back and flowing up into the upper right corner. Paws also have blue/teal snow coming off of them and also have cracks of ice coming from them on the ground. Wuukor red moon buffalo/ bison creature concept from Critical Role. Fanart concept design sheet depicting the side-view of a bison like creature with multiple twisting horns on head, red fur, a long tail with some small spikes at the base, and six legs. Baby side-view concept is also included in the sheet to the left of the adult, which has smaller nubs for horns and lighter fur. Frontal head view to the right of the adult on the sheet shows how the horns twist around each like a twisted tree.
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✷ Hyaenidae Hyacinthus ✷
February 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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beckykidus.bsky.social
How could I not draw the snow leopard?

Next #CardForConservation, available on Ko-Fi as usual, and with the proceeds going to wildlife conservation as usual: ko-fi.com/beckykidus64...

#SciArt #snowleopard #art #traditionalart
February 14, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Bees 🐝
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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doedryadart.bsky.social
Weathered King

Recently finished portrait of a Great Hornbill
9x12" oil painting
#birds #sciart
Painted portrait of a Great Hornbill with a muted green backdrop. A striking yellow and black bird with a large bill and casque. The bill is weathered and textured, and the eyes are a deep red.
February 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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eyeofthenewt.bsky.social
'The Deaths of River Dart'

AD: Fen Inkwright
#fantasyart #D&D #TTRPG
Digital painting depicting a dangerous-looking old woman with long dark hair, long pointy nose, yellow glowing eyes and a wicked smirk. She is up to her thighs in river water, washing a bloodied sheet of linen. The scene is in darkness, with a strip of lighting illuminating her only partially. The surface of the water is covered in duckweed and there are ravens flying around the figure. The figure has metal coin jewelry woven into her wild, dark hair that falls down her back and into the water like a thick blanket. There is a full moon visible in the reflection of the water. The credit text at the bottom includes: Crow&Crown logo, Aquarium logo, “Charlie Newt Borovský @EyeOfTheNewt” and “© Crow&Crown 2026”.
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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sasharjones.bsky.social
Been drawing a lot of dogs lately, which is funny cause someone at my FC table was asking if I had art of a certain breed and I responded "oh, I dont really tend to do domestic dogs."
But I did a ceramic dog recently, and I've been practicing drawing the same subject I'm sculpting, so here we are.
February 12, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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hannahorca.bsky.social
Another bug-inspired weirdo in the works
Line art drawing of a creature
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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rachelquinlan.bsky.social
“The Escape” was juried into this year’s Infected By Art annual. A nice surprise!
Foxes looking at a magical book - painting
February 12, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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unravy.bsky.social
Moss ball bug
It was itching my brain, I had to!

A green fluffball crawling out of the bushes. I'd love to see other artists take on this critter 👀🌿
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
because people keep asking what fish hell is, here's a quick visual sample of my suffering
thumbnails of various realistic fish drawings, close ups of too many tedious scales and fin rays
June 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
daneafidler.bsky.social
Now for my favorite piece that I painted for the Endangered: Australia board game by Grand Gamers Guild last year.

The Giant Barred Frog
A highly endangered frog in Australia, located in south eastern Queensland.

#SciArt #digitalpainting #amphibians #wildlife #wildlifeart #Australia
Digital painting of a giant barred frog in three quarters view, standing on top of mud, dried leaves, and twigs.
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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emmalerae.bsky.social
Dinosaurs Survived!

All 15 designs so far.

www.emmalerae.com/store.html
An image showing 15 illustrations of birds paired with dinosaur skulls. Below each reads the words "Dinosaurs Survived!" with the geological formations and locations of each.
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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amandamakepeace.bsky.social
May you all have a magical #SuperbOwlDay 🤍✨

#art #birds #superbowlsunday #owl #birdart
Dusk and Dawn, my Spirit Owls drawing with silver and gold
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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casswart.bsky.social
Today is It's I ❤ #EasternIndigoSnakeDay🐍🎉

South East US states celebrate the critically endangered Eastern Indigo Snake today across their communities to educate the public about its importance to biodiversity.

#EasternIndigo #SnakeDay #AnimalArt #SciArt #WildlifeArt
Science Illustration Graphic of Southern Eastern US Black Snake species, Profile sketches of the Florida Cottonmouth, Eastern Indigo, Southern Black Racer. by Cass W
February 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
I do not paint enough owls, for shame.
#SuperbOwl
himmapaan.bsky.social Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · Nov 12
🌟 quote repost with your art that has stars 🌠

'Awake'
Watercolour, ink & gouache on Fluid {BackToTheInfernalFiresWhenceYouCame*} hot pressed watercolour paper, 130 mm diameter, 2018.

*I did not like this paper at all.
February 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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beckykidus.bsky.social
Something something #SuperbOwl?

This was the moment I realized I haven't drawn enough owls. Need to fix that sometime...

#SciArt #art #tradart #traditionalart #drawing
February 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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istrandar.bsky.social
I saw a few people posting owls so I'm posting some owls illustrations I made.
I love those strange birds
February 8, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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unravy.bsky.social
Commission for @aurilliax0.bsky.social 🖤✨
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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judylalingoptgs.bsky.social
"Above us only Sky" 8" x 16" oil on linen panel. From my trip out to Utah last summer. ❤️ #onaquiwildhorses #traditionalart #traditionalpainting #animalart #horseart #wildhorsepainting #wildhorseart #aboveusonlysky #judylalingopaintings #equineart #oilpainting
February 7, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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anireal.bsky.social
🐰Gearing up for Lunar New Year with another prior piece! Some bunnies hopping by with some luck🐰

🧧 祝你好运 🧧
Lunar New Year art of a bunny creature and several mini bunny followers. The creature is holding a mandarin orange. There is a large red envelope Mandarin character for luck/prosperity.
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
This little Black-throated Blue Warbler isn't gonna get used for her original intended purpose so here she is for Warbler Wednesday! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Rough little mini digital illustration of a female-type Black-throated Blue Warbler perched on sort of a hovering disembodied branch segment. She is a soft turquoise blue, greener at the head and richer blue on the back and tail, with a thin pointy black beak, white eyering, white belly, and black legs. The white patch on the primaries is a key identifying mark for this species regardless of age or sex.
February 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
Pages 4 and 5

Happy Werewolf Wednesday all
Comic page, two feral wolves starting to loose their shape Comic page, paws Turing into hands. A werewolf. Text says ‘there’s a change in their blood’
February 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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dcrapuchettes.bsky.social
I somehow missed that Nature is Mike's #3 game of the year! I'm proud our small studio could compete with Asmodee and a LotR license. A big shoutout to the entire team!

@tinylongwing.bsky.social @moregamesplease.com @daneafidler.bsky.social @boardgamequest.bsky.social
youtu.be/g2UDvKFMsbs?...
Best games of 2025 (#20-#1)
YouTube video by One Stop Co-op Shop
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February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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theweeowl.bsky.social
A new watercolour and mixed media painting of white ducks on a lily pond. If you are interested in this piece you will find it in my Folksy shop...
folksy.com/find/item/85...

#Ducks #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm
A painting of white ducks swimming on a pond with lily pads. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Watercolour and mixed media painting on acid free watercolour paper. Approximately 6x8"(15.24 by 20.32 cm) will fit an 8x6" standard frame.
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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eyeofthenewt.bsky.social
A Sneaky peek at one of the illustrations I did for Aquarium already!
crowcrownstudio.bsky.social Crow & Crown 👑 @crowcrownstudio.bsky.social · 14d
Aquarium currently contains 85+ hours of adventures - with more being written as we speak! Each adventure is designed to run for 4+ hours and contains at least one of our watery folkloric monsters - as well as advice on how to level each adventure up or down.
February 3, 2026 at 6:09 AM