On screen

On paper

About

Contact

Roxana Dan

ILLUSTRATOR

DIGITAL & TRADITIONAL · FIGURATIVE

I bring stories to life through digital and traditional mediums — what I see, feel, and think. The work is figurative, colour led, and emotionally direct.

Illustrations on screen

Collision

A study in opposing forces — static and kinetic, figure and abstraction. Inspired by graphic sports illustration.

Dimension: 1388  ×  1374 px

Palette:

figurative study

sports illustration

motion

graphic

graphic

Voodoo Catbar

“Meowww”, said the spirit in me, as for sure, the one in front of me replied: “Well, hello!”

​

It was the opening of the conversation that started that magical and occult nightingale. The dark was full of sparkling colours, beautifully blending the objects inside the “Voodoo - Cat Bar”.

Dimension: 4724 × 4724px

Palette:

world building

occult

witchy

atmospheric

playful

Foli

Study after Kotteri (@bykotteri), VEILMANGA series. Exploring figure composition, fabric rendering, and Baroque visual language through personal reinterpretation.

Dimension: 4000 × 2500px

Palette:

figure study

baroque

fabric study

veilmanga

Fomista

"Fomista" merges Romanian communist-era iconography with cyberpunk aesthetics. The headscarf and rotary phone reference the surveillance state and conformity of the Soviet bloc, while glowing eyes and acid typography reframe that control through a dystopian, digital lens.

Dimension: 4724 × 4724px

Palette:

cyberpunk

cultural commentary

pop art

communist era

dystopian

Roots

Procreate ink texture explored through figure and form — composition developed intuitively from a single pose reference.

Dimension: 1714 × 4096px

Palette:

ink

brush study

monochrome

expressive

body study

Fluid Child — Reborn

A figure in foetal repose, suspended in fluid and light. "Fluid Child — Reborn" explores themes of transformation, vulnerability, and the threshold between dissolution and becoming.

Dimension: 2500 × 4000px

Palette:

editorial

conceptual

fantasy

expressive

body study

The Green Mantle

Study after Laweyd (DeviantArt). A reimagining exploring scale, nature as deity, and the relationship between the human and the monumental.

Dimension: 2500 × 4000px

Palette:

brush study

conceptual

fantasy

expressive

atmospheric

Crazy plant lady

A self-portrait in still life. Every object a chosen one — the plants, the dog, the books, the quiet Saturday.

Dimension: 3000-3000px

Palette:

world building

conceptual

geometric

2D

interior illustration

The Cyclist

A woman in a white dress beside a white bicycle, rendered in simple flat shapes against a warm taupe background. No background clutter, no narrative tension — just a quiet moment. The simplicity is the point. It breathes.

Dimension: 1500-1500px

Palette:

brush study

minimal

2D

crayon

animation

Grotto

A cave is a space still unknown. In this unknown you can discover, see the light in the dark and be surprised. Childhood feels sometime like discovering a cave.

Dimension: 1500-2100px

Palette:

world building

children book

magical

guache

crayon

Genesis

She's holding something alive — protecting it, offering it. Still, sacred, powerful. Created in dialogue with Samantha Mash's botanical work — the crane, the leaves, the layered flora. Everything else grew from there.

Dimension: 4000 × 2500px

Palette:

botanical

atmospheric

soft

crayon

world building

Illustrations on paper

Equilibrium

It might be anxiety that takes control. Or it might be a social construct that limits your way of being. Or it might just be that the show ended before the big finish.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

acrylic

watercolor

narrative

expressive

theatrical

Reverie

Drawn from the stillness of geisha — the porcelain profile, the weight of dark hair, the face that gives nothing away — but the blue pulls her out of history and into something more private. She belongs to no one's tradition but her own.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

editorial

watercolor

profile

expressive

close-up

Cherry flower

Botanical inspiration framed in geometric black-and-white bars — nature interrupting structure, or the other way around. The tension between organic and grid is what makes it breathe.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

botanical study

watercolor

pattern

decorative

Self

A figure kneels among tangled roots and overgrowth, the darkness pressing in from all sides — but she is not overwhelmed, she is part of it. Ink at its most textural and alive.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

figurative

watercolor

expressive

brush study

Decisive

Sometimes drawing with 001 liners put me into a meditative space. The same focus is found within the portrait.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

liner

profile

expressive

study

Reborn

With every material resources a woman has she choses to feed from the eternal earth.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

mixture

watercolor

expressive

figurative

Porthole feast

A circular composition frames a tangled scene — octopus, ship, sea. Strange and ceremonial at once.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

stain

liner

adventure

brush study

Glass, material and study

Charcoal study to have an understanding on materials like velvet, metal, glass, shadow and light.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

charcoal

study

glass

velvet

metal

Crumpled paper study

Charcoal study to have an understanding on strong shadows and complex surface.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

charcoal

study

lines

paper

lines

Capricorn

The theme grows from a zodiac sign outward — lace is conveyed into water, the creatures living inside it as if it were always the sea.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

lace

pencil colours

accent

fantasy

figurative

Night Current

A face painted with cool restraint — the bruise of violet around the eye reads less as wound, more as weather. She is elsewhere.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

watercolor

feminine

figurative

expressive

gouache

About

I've been drawing since I was a child — not because someone told me I should, but because it was already there. After school I took private drawing lessons, and everything else built from there: commissions, album covers, posters, and mostly personal work that didn't need a reason to exist.

Large letters in brand typography

I work in both traditional and digital media, and I've come to understand them as two different kinds of thinking. Traditional is messier, less controllable — the brush leaves a mark the environment half-decides, and that restriction is where the creativity lives. Digital is cleaner, faster, infinitely adjustable. Each medium pulls a different style out of me, almost without asking. I like that. It means the tool is part of the work.

​

Drawing is where reality breaks for me. Nothing is fixed, nothing is given — just open space and whatever needs to come out of it. Time disappears. It's less something I do and more something I am.

​

I also deeply enjoy translating someone else's vision — sitting inside another person's idea and finding the image that was always waiting inside it. If you have something you want to bring to life, I'd love to hear about it.

Contact

Email at roxanaclaudia.dan@gmail.com

​

Or find me on instagram ranosemiillustrates.

​

For inquiries about representations, commissions, or collaborations — I would love to hear from you. Whether it’s a personal project or someone else’s vision to translate, reach out directly.

© 2026 · All Rights Reserved · Roxana Dan

Illustrations on screen

Illustrations on paper

About

Contact

Roxana Dan

ILLUSTRATOR

DIGITAL & TRADITIONAL · FIGURATIVE

I bring stories to life through digital and traditional mediums — what I see, feel, and think. The work is figurative, colour led, and emotionally direct.

Collision

A study in opposing forces — static and kinetic, figure and abstraction. Inspired by graphic sports illustration.

Dimension: 1388  ×  1374 px

Palette:

figurative study

sports illustration

motion

graphic

graphic

Voodoo Catbar

“Meowww”, said the spirit in me, as for sure, the one in front of me replied: “Well, hello!”

​

It was the opening of the conversation that started that magical and occult nightingale. The dark was full of sparkling colours, beautifully blending the objects inside the “Voodoo - Cat Bar”.

Dimension: 4724 × 4724px

Palette:

world building

occult

witchy

atmospheric

playful

Foli

Study after Kotteri (@bykotteri), VEILMANGA series. Exploring figure composition, fabric rendering, and Baroque visual language through personal reinterpretation.

Dimension: 4000 × 2500px

Palette:

figure study

baroque

fabric study

veilmanga

Fomista

"Fomista" merges Romanian communist-era iconography with cyberpunk aesthetics. The headscarf and rotary phone reference the surveillance state and conformity of the Soviet bloc, while glowing eyes and acid typography reframe that control through a dystopian, digital lens.

Dimension: 4724 × 4724px

Palette:

cyberpunk

cultural commentary

pop art

communist era

dystopian

Roots

Procreate ink texture explored through figure and form — composition developed intuitively from a single pose reference.

Dimension: 1714 × 4096px

Palette:

ink

brush study

monochrome

expressive

body study

Fluid Child — Reborn

A figure in foetal repose, suspended in fluid and light. "Fluid Child — Reborn" explores themes of transformation, vulnerability, and the threshold between dissolution and becoming.

Dimension: 2500 × 4000px

Palette:

editorial

conceptual

fantasy

expressive

body study

The Green Mantle

Study after Laweyd (DeviantArt). A reimagining exploring scale, nature as deity, and the relationship between the human and the monumental.

Dimension: 2500 × 4000px

Palette:

brush study

conceptual

fantasy

expressive

atmospheric

Crazy plant lady

A self-portrait in still life. Every object a chosen one — the plants, the dog, the books, the quiet Saturday.

Dimension: 3000-3000px

Palette:

world building

conceptual

geometric

2D

interior illustration

The Cyclist

A woman in a white dress beside a white bicycle, rendered in simple flat shapes against a warm taupe background. No background clutter, no narrative tension — just a quiet moment. The simplicity is the point. It breathes.

Dimension: 1500-1500px

Palette:

brush study

minimal

2D

crayon

animation

Grotto

A cave is a space still unknown. In this unknown you can discover, see the light in the dark and be surprised. Childhood feels sometime like discovering a cave.

Dimension: 1500-2100px

Palette:

world building

children book

magical

guache

crayon

Genesis

She's holding something alive — protecting it, offering it. Still, sacred, powerful. Created in dialogue with Samantha Mash's botanical work — the crane, the leaves, the layered flora. Everything else grew from there.

Dimension: 4000 × 2500px

Palette:

botanical

atmospheric

soft

crayon

world building

Equilibrium

It might be anxiety that takes control. Or it might be a social construct that limits your way of being. Or it might just be that the show ended before the big finish.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

acrylic

watercolor

narrative

expressive

theatrical

Reverie

Drawn from the stillness of geisha — the porcelain profile, the weight of dark hair, the face that gives nothing away — but the blue pulls her out of history and into something more private. She belongs to no one's tradition but her own.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

editorial

watercolor

profile

expressive

close-up

Cherry flower

Botanical inspiration framed in geometric black-and-white bars — nature interrupting structure, or the other way around. The tension between organic and grid is what makes it breathe.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

botanical study

watercolor

pattern

decorative

Self

A figure kneels among tangled roots and overgrowth, the darkness pressing in from all sides — but she is not overwhelmed, she is part of it. Ink at its most textural and alive.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

figurative

watercolor

expressive

brush study

Decisive

Sometimes drawing with 001 liners put me into a meditative space. The same focus is found within the portrait.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

liner

profile

expressive

study

Reborn

With every material resources a woman has she choses to feed from the eternal earth.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

mixture

watercolor

expressive

figurative

Porthole feast

A circular composition frames a tangled scene — octopus, ship, sea. Strange and ceremonial at once.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

stain

liner

adventure

brush study

Glass, material and study

Charcoal study to have an understanding on materials like velvet, metal, glass, shadow and light.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

charcoal

study

glass

velvet

metal

Crumpled paper study

Charcoal study to have an understanding on strong shadows and complex surface.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

charcoal

study

lines

paper

lines

Capricorn

The theme grows from a zodiac sign outward — lace is conveyed into water, the creatures living inside it as if it were always the sea.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

lace

pencil colours

accent

fantasy

figurative

Night Current

A face painted with cool restraint — the bruise of violet around the eye reads less as wound, more as weather. She is elsewhere.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

watercolor

feminine

figurative

expressive

gouache

I've been drawing since I was a child — not because someone told me I should, but because it was already there. After school I took private drawing lessons, and everything else built from there: commissions, album covers, posters, and mostly personal work that didn't need a reason to exist.

Large letters in brand typography

I work in both traditional and digital media, and I've come to understand them as two different kinds of thinking. Traditional is messier, less controllable — the brush leaves a mark the environment half-decides, and that restriction is where the creativity lives. Digital is cleaner, faster, infinitely adjustable. Each medium pulls a different style out of me, almost without asking. I like that. It means the tool is part of the work.

​

Drawing is where reality breaks for me. Nothing is fixed, nothing is given — just open space and whatever needs to come out of it. Time disappears. It's less something I do and more something I am.

​

I also deeply enjoy translating someone else's vision — sitting inside another person's idea and finding the image that was always waiting inside it. If you have something you want to bring to life, I'd love to hear about it.

Email at roxanaclaudia.dan@gmail.com

​

Or find me on instagram ranosemiillustrates.

​

For inquiries about representations, commissions, or collaborations — I would love to hear from you. Whether it’s a personal project or someone else’s vision to translate, reach out directly.

© 2026 · All Rights Reserved · Roxana Dan

Illustrations on screen

Illustrations on paper

About

Contact

Roxana Dan

ILLUSTRATOR

DIGITAL & TRADITIONAL · FIGURATIVE

I bring stories to life through digital and traditional mediums — what I see, feel, and think. The work is figurative, colour led, and emotionally direct.

Collision

A study in opposing forces — static and kinetic, figure and abstraction. Inspired by graphic sports illustration.

Dimension: 1388  ×  1374 px

Palette:

figurative study

sports illustration

motion

graphic

graphic

Voodoo Catbar

“Meowww”, said the spirit in me, as for sure, the one in front of me replied: “Well, hello!”

​

It was the opening of the conversation that started that magical and occult nightingale. The dark was full of sparkling colours, beautifully blending the objects inside the “Voodoo - Cat Bar”.

Dimension: 4724 × 4724px

Palette:

world building

occult

witchy

atmospheric

playful

Foli

Study after Kotteri (@bykotteri), VEILMANGA series. Exploring figure composition, fabric rendering, and Baroque visual language through personal reinterpretation.

Dimension: 4000 × 2500px

Palette:

figure study

baroque

fabric study

veilmanga

Fomista

"Fomista" merges Romanian communist-era iconography with cyberpunk aesthetics. The headscarf and rotary phone reference the surveillance state and conformity of the Soviet bloc, while glowing eyes and acid typography reframe that control through a dystopian, digital lens.

Dimension: 4724 × 4724px

Palette:

cyberpunk

cultural commentary

pop art

communist era

dystopian

Roots

Procreate ink texture explored through figure and form — composition developed intuitively from a single pose reference.

Dimension: 1714 × 4096px

Palette:

ink

brush study

monochrome

expressive

body study

Fluid Child — Reborn

A figure in foetal repose, suspended in fluid and light. "Fluid Child — Reborn" explores themes of transformation, vulnerability, and the threshold between dissolution and becoming.

Dimension: 2500 × 4000px

Palette:

editorial

conceptual

fantasy

expressive

body study

The Green Mantle

Study after Laweyd (DeviantArt). A reimagining exploring scale, nature as deity, and the relationship between the human and the monumental.

Dimension: 2500 × 4000px

Palette:

brush study

conceptual

fantasy

expressive

atmospheric

Crazy plant lady

A self-portrait in still life. Every object a chosen one — the plants, the dog, the books, the quiet Saturday.

Dimension: 3000-3000px

Palette:

world building

conceptual

geometric

2D

interior illustration

The Cyclist

A woman in a white dress beside a white bicycle, rendered in simple flat shapes against a warm taupe background. No background clutter, no narrative tension — just a quiet moment. The simplicity is the point. It breathes.

Dimension: 1500-1500px

Palette:

brush study

minimal

2D

crayon

animation

Grotto

A cave is a space still unknown. In this unknown you can discover, see the light in the dark and be surprised. Childhood feels sometime like discovering a cave.

Dimension: 1500-2100px

Palette:

world building

children book

magical

guache

crayon

Genesis

She's holding something alive — protecting it, offering it. Still, sacred, powerful. Created in dialogue with Samantha Mash's botanical work — the crane, the leaves, the layered flora. Everything else grew from there.

Dimension: 4000 × 2500px

Palette:

botanical

atmospheric

soft

crayon

world building

Equilibrium

It might be anxiety that takes control. Or it might be a social construct that limits your way of being. Or it might just be that the show ended before the big finish.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

acrylic

watercolor

narrative

expressive

theatrical

Reverie

Drawn from the stillness of geisha — the porcelain profile, the weight of dark hair, the face that gives nothing away — but the blue pulls her out of history and into something more private. She belongs to no one's tradition but her own.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

editorial

acrylic

profile

expressive

close-up

Cherry flower

Botanical inspiration framed in geometric black-and-white bars — nature interrupting structure, or the other way around. The tension between organic and grid is what makes it breathe.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

botanical study

watercolor

pattern

decorative

Self

A figure kneels among tangled roots and overgrowth, the darkness pressing in from all sides — but she is not overwhelmed, she is part of it. Ink at its most textural and alive.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

figurative

atmosphere

expressive

brush study

Decisive

Sometimes drawing with 001 liners put me into a meditative space. The same focus is found within the portrait.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

liner

profile

expressive

study

Reborn

With every material resources a woman has she choses to feed from the eternal earth.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

mixture

watercolor

expressive

figurative

Porthole feast

A circular composition frames a tangled scene — octopus, ship, sea. Strange and ceremonial at once.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

ink

stain

liner

adventure

brush study

Glass, material and study

Charcoal study to have an understanding on materials like velvet, metal, glass, shadow and light.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

charcoal

study

glass

velvet

metal

Crumpled paper study

Charcoal study to have an understanding on strong shadows and complex surface.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

charcoal

study

lines

paper

lines

Capricorn

The theme grows from a zodiac sign outward — lace is conveyed into water, the creatures living inside it as if it were always the sea.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

lace

pencil colours

accent

fantasy

figurative

Night Current

A face painted with cool restraint — the bruise of violet around the eye reads less as wound, more as weather. She is elsewhere.

Dimension: 594x841mm

Palette:

watercolor

feminine

figurative

expressive

gouache

I've been drawing since I was a child — not because someone told me I should, but because it was already there. After school I took private drawing lessons, and everything else built from there: commissions, album covers, posters, and mostly personal work that didn't need a reason to exist.

Large letters in brand typography

I work in both traditional and digital media, and I've come to understand them as two different kinds of thinking. Traditional is messier, less controllable — the brush leaves a mark the environment half-decides, and that restriction is where the creativity lives. Digital is cleaner, faster, infinitely adjustable. Each medium pulls a different style out of me, almost without asking. I like that. It means the tool is part of the work.

​

Drawing is where reality breaks for me. Nothing is fixed, nothing is given — just open space and whatever needs to come out of it. Time disappears. It's less something I do and more something I am.

​

I also deeply enjoy translating someone else's vision — sitting inside another person's idea and finding the image that was always waiting inside it. If you have something you want to bring to life, I'd love to hear about it.

Email at roxanaclaudia.dan@gmail.com

​

Or find me on instagram ranosemiillustrates.

​

For inquiries about representations, commissions, or collaborations — I would love to hear from you. Whether it’s a personal project or someone else’s vision to translate, reach out directly.

© 2026 · All Rights Reserved · Roxana Dan