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 paper
Equilibrium
It might be anxiety that takes control when you are you. Or it might be a social construct that limits your way of being. Or it might be just that the show ended before the big finish.
acrylic
watercolor
narrative
expressive
atmosphere
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
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.
editorial
acrylic
profile
expressive
close-up
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
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.
ink
liner
watercolor
pattern
decorative
botanical study
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
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.
ink
figurative
atmosphere
expressive
body study
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
Decisive
Sometimes drawing with 001 liners put me into a meditative space. The same focus is found within the portrait.
ink
liner
portrait
expressive
study
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
Reborn
With every material resources a woman has she choses to feed from the eternal earth.
ink
mixture
watercolor
brush
figurative
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
Porthole feast
A circular composition frames a tangled scene — octopus, ship, sea. Strange and ceremonial at once.
ink
stain
liner
adventure
brush study
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
Glass, material and study
Charcoal study to have an understanding on materials like velvet, metal, glass, shadow and light.
charcoal
study
glass
velvet
metal
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
Crumpled paper study
Charcoal study to have an understanding on strong shadows and complex surface.
charcoal
study
lines
paper
composition
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
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.
lace
pencil colours
accent
fantasy
figurative
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
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.
watercolor
feminine
figurative
expressive
gouache
Palette:
Dimension: 594x841mm
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.
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
For representation, 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.
Based in Bucharest
Let’s get in touch
roxanaclaudia.dan@gmail.com
Contact
For representation, 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.
Based in Bucharest
Let’s get in touch