#dreamermal

Who died and made you king of anything?

King of Anything by Sara Bareilles

In which Mal’s magic colour blends in with the shadows. Whoops.

Oh yeah, did I not mention? Mal’s wings finally got a redesign. They look much better now.

Alrighty, here’s another one of the Originals, Mal. In her original design notes, I found out that we apparently used her real name, so I erased it. She also apparently was designed with silver hair. I’d completely forgotten about that when I started her non-stickfigure designs. She also had dual swords, which is another thing that never even crossed my mind until looking through her original notes. Whoops. I guess because everyone needed a weapon?

[NEW] So uh....I didn’t find this one until later, but I guess this was my first attempt at creating a non-stickfigure version of Mal? It’s....pretty bad, but I guess it set the precedent for Mal wearing dresses/skirts.

The next one is a drawing that I posted in one of my Throwback weeks. I know it was based off the creator of Mal, I’m not certain if it was supposed to be a design for Mal herself.

This is actually the first time I’d drawn Mal with a focus on actually creating her outfit. It was inspired by the song “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy, in which I guess I envisioned Mal in her role as leader/queen. The idea was long and complicated, but I liked the idea of Mal watching an incoming army from on top of a castle wall or something. However, I was drawing her from the back, and thus didn’t fully work out what her outfit looked like.

The next drawing I drew of Mal was also inspired by a song, specifically “Let There Be Light” by Exiark. It was intended to be something more along the lines of Mal using her Soulkey ability, but I stopped before adding the effects for that because I still wasn’t certain what her Soulkey actually did. However, the process of drawing her allowed me to create what would become my best reference for what she looked like and her outfit. Because when I’d drawn her outfit previously, I didn’t fully design it, I had to do a substantial amount of research, and ended up changing her skirt design a couple of times, finally settling on it being made up of hardened leather strips similar to an armoured skirt worn by the Romans. This was also a moment in which her wing design was set into what it currently is, although I’m planning on revamping that in the future.

Here we go, for the Anon that requested a 1C.