The sketches!

And the color rough! To be absolutely clear: "art direction" is an industry term that predates AI by a very long time. It means a person assigned the work to me and oversaw its process over these two steps (sketches, colors) to ensure it fit its function & the project, in this case Fablecraft.

*the second one would have made a cool rooster lion xD* These are so neat :)

I really love seeing this stage of a piece and some of the other ways it could have gone!

ooooh I really like the pose of C too, but the others definitely show off the tail better

Damn it, I'd love to see every single of them as a finished piece from you XD They all just speak to me.