I've been using "Swordtember," a community art event that happens every year in September, to create concept art for Bug & Claw. Some of these may get polished further or iterated on. The idea behind Swordtember is to sketch or illustrate swords along with a daily theme.

The theme keywords present here were Moss, Shell, Automaton, and Bell.

From that, you get ideas for a couple of fallen soldiers as well as some Relic-kin.

I've also done some non-Bug-&-Claw art as part of Swordtember for the practice. You can see some of that on Tumblr or Bluesky.

Pro question: Can you tell which of these I only used my laptop trackpad to sketch?