Graduation Show on April 12th

Graduation is over now and I'm now officially a graduate of Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. On April 12th I had the opening ceremony of my graduation show. I wanted to share some photos from the opening. These pieces have been my primary focus all semester and something I've been working towards for the past 4 years. They are now on my website here: http://daneafidler.com . I have a book from the show, which I might sell copies of sometime in the future. I also have a ton of stickers left from the show. After Spectrum Fantastic Live 2 in May, I will put a price on the stickers or I might have some giveaways for them. Anyway, here are the photos from the show. Thank you for everyone's support from all these years.

Denver Zoo Group

Hey, just want to announce that the Denver Zoo Sketch Group is now active and being updated weekly! You can access the main group site page here: Denver Zoo Sketch Group and the facebook is here: Zoo Sketch Group Facebook

Our first meeting of the summer will be Saturday, April 20th at 9 am in front of the Denver Zoo. We will meet once or twice a week on Fridays or Saturdays. Hope to see people there! It's going to be a lot fun.

Also Grad Show photos coming soon! Thank you so much to everyone who made it. The show was amazing!

Almost there - Invitation to Grad Show!

It's almost here. My Graduation Show opens up this Friday, April 12th at 5 pm at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in the Phillip J. Steele Gallery. Please come to see what my fellow graduates and I have been working on all semester and have been working towards for 3 or 4 years now. This semester's graduation show will be big and great. Around 60 graduates in total, 17 of them illustration. There will be art, food, and a TON of promo items from all of us. After Friday will be graduation on the 19th. The show will be up till then. Hope to see you all there!



~Danea Fidler

More Previews

After some really long hours in the basement painting on the cintiq I'm happy to finally be able to post some more sneek previews of the images for my Grad Show. Here I have a small sneek peek of one of my illustrations and then my primary creature design. Enjoy and any feedback is appreciated. More to come in the next few weeks. Counting down to the Grad Show and Graduation now. After that is Spectrum Fantastic Art Live 2 :).

Grad Portfolio

Just a quick update with a quick collage of preliminary images for my projects for Grad Portfolio for my Grad Show. Shown here are some wolverine studies, head studies, primate hand studies, and a process of the form of my creature.
Also, due to Grad Portfolio, I'm going to have to go down to updating once every other week instead of every week.
I will be posting more of these WIP images as I go throughout the semester :).

More Zoo and Museum Studies

Some zoo and museum sketches from last summer :).

Explorer WIP

This is a my first oil painting that I did for life painting 2 during fall semester. We got to choose our own costumes and subject matter and with the costumes we had I choose to paint an explorer of worlds who is currently exploring a jungle on some unknown alien world.
Due to time constraints on this painting it ended up being very painterly. I plan on finishing it up digitally. This way I can fix some anatomy issues and put a lot more detail into it without having to deal with oil paints (which I'm allergic to). Let me know what you think.