Month of ''Monster'' - Day 18 - Monster concept 10

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I wanted to do something special this October since Halloween is my favorite holiday and I thought this might be fun. For a while now I've been planning and working on a new comic series called "Monster". It can be best described as my attempt at a magical girl series; bit of scifi, bit of fantasy, toss in some eldritch horror and my own odd brand of comedy. So each day I will post some sketches and doodles pertaining to the series with a bit of info about what's in it. If I'm lucky perhaps we'll finish it all up with page one?

Creature Info (subject to future change)
This monster currently has no name. This creature like many others is giant in size, standing far above a human. Vaguely resembling the silhouette of a human woman, its body is white in color and flows along the ground like a dress. Said "dress" is very long with equally long "sleeves" and is decorated with thousands of scarlet maple leaves. The most notable feature this monster possesses however is its mask, resembling stylized fox, which appears to be worn however there is nothing behind it, no head at all to speak of with objects able to pass through the space it should occupy. Made of interwoven pieces of black metal its weapon resembles a brazer. What is most notable, interestingly enough, is the fire it contains, which while clearly hot and behaving like fire has the appearance of thousands of swirling leaves. It is clearly aesthetic but unclear as to why. When threatened this creature responds swiftly, it stuns and confuses opponents with cascades of swirling leaves which at any moment it may set ablaze, it will also launch volleys of fire straight from its staff, and even seems to "teleport" from one storm of leaves to another. It does not posses any minions but can warp reality around it, which seems to be its preferred location, changing everything in it own little "world" into a moonlight drenched forest made up of thousands of scarlet leaved, pale barked, maple trees.

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Creature concept and "Monster" © Alexandra Schoell