Emily Fiegenschuh's art career began at a very young age when she set up a card table in the hallway of her home and sold her drawings of monsters and animals to family members for $.05 and $.10. Later, (much later), with support from said family members, she attended art school at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, and graduated with honors and a BFA from the Illustration program in 2001. After working for one year as a product designer at The Franklin Mint, Emily returned to her childhood dreams of creating creatures and characters when she began freelancing for Wizards of the Coast. Since then, she has done illustrations for numerous Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks, and cover and interior illustrations for the Mirrorstone Young Adult novel series Knights of the Silver Dragon. Her art has also appeared in the New York Times Bestsellers A Practical Guide to Dragons, and A Practical Guide to Monsters both published by Mirrorstone. Recently, Emily has been working on illustrations for the ongoing story The Star Shard, serialized in Cricket Magazine.

Emily is stuck in analog mode and still draws and paints traditionally. Her illustrations are painted with gouache on watercolor paper.

In her spare time, Emily enjoys sculpting, and one of her pieces was featured in Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Emily lives with her husband, Vinod, in Mount Horeb, WI, where she can be found baking cookies at 1 am, or talking to her guinea pigs Cedric, Mims, Momiji, Chester, Patty Rufio and Peppi (rest in peace, Biggie, rest in peace dear Mims)

 

 

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