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Here’s another Fae-Dragon court concept! I kinda forgot which name I gave this one, but it’s winter-themed! I kept in mind winter animals, bones, frostbite and other nasty cold-induced injuries while I filled this page out. I imagine this court is in charge of the Wild Hunt. The nobility rampage across the lands in winter, hunting all unfortunate enough to cross their path.

The centuar-ish one is supposed to be the court’s main herald/head honcho. I think their hanging bodies/horn accessories might overshadow their actual body. Maybe they could be the main herald’s servant instead. I like what I did for the skull design.

Fae-Dragon court of bird people? Why not!

Meet the Court of the Whistling Winds! They inhabit the mountains, and are the only court with majority flight-capable wings. Their concept is birds plus biblically accurate angeIs with eyes on their wings. They are the ‘older sibling’ court to the Glorious Cacophony. I imagine their dragon forms to be more griffon-like.

The fellow with the five bird heads is the Court Herald. I’m thinking of reducing the heads to three for ease of drawing. They have a ruff and three pairs of wings, all with a lot of eyes. Their chest is filled with holes that are inhabited by birds. The birds act as the herald’s scouts.

Read more: Making a Cosmic SuperMode

This is some spoilers for the later parts of Yim’s story, but I can’t help it, designing this was a lot of fun. Yim belongs to a Fae-Dragon court called The Cosmic Deep, which is all space, entropy, and eldritch horror. I really wanted to convey the power and cosmic horror of Yim’s new form, which was done by adding galaxy print! The second image are two of my colored concept drawings.

I lengthened their hair, made it unclear where some of the clothing seams were, and added this star map to their back, as well as a rip to outer space in their chest. The belt thing is actually a mouth. I experimented with giving Yim a freakier mouth biology but decided against it because of ease of drawing. Looking back, I think I want to add more mouths where the stitching is on the leftmost design of image 2. It would really up the creepiness factor.

I actually showed image 2 to my friends before I posted it. They preferred the design where Yim has a crop top. I do enjoy the concept of Yim exposing skin in this form. Yim normally stays covered, so revealing skin would convey a sense of wrongness inherent to this forceful transformation.

Hmmm how to design a court of fae-dragons based on decomposition? Add mushrooms and fungi! I wanted to up the inhumanness of my previous Mycemal Hoard designs. For the figure on the left, I removed their face and tore open their chest. Their face is a trypanophobia-causing series of worm holes now.

I also added elements of found and recycled objects into the designs.  They’re pretty complicated to draw. Good thing I’m not doing a comic!

I redesigned Simon (again)! He originally had this short-sleeved silk dress shirt, but I got tired of doing all the clothing folds and texturing. So hello blue rashguard! I’ll probably simplify the shirt even more, maybe mess with the colors, but I prefer the silhouette much more. Here are my concepts + some casual and Halloween outfits.

I also added some purple to his skin and face. The tips of his fingers have become purple as well, leading to a gradient to his skin tone. That is because I modified his backstory to include botched mithradism due to family issues. It illustrates his sometimes-toxic and self-destructive nature better. He has become more of a grotesque beauty.