Meet the Creatures

Cosplay Creatures: A glimpse into Valerie's brain.

Combine a creative brain, random cosplay bits and pieces, and a rainy weekend.

This is what happens:

Paint a new design on an old cosplay mask you’ve been wanting to repurpose.

Add leftover fur (sewing) and a newly made pair of foam ears (cutting, painting, gluing).

Take a pair of long black gloves and add plastic fingernail-claws painted in your favorite color (gluing, painting).

Finish it off with crafty bits: mushrooms & a butterfly.

Plan your outfit to include rainbow-striped socks & arm sleeves.

And now you have Laveria!

What to wear? What to wear?

Start with a fursuit head.

Of course, you have multiple options, because you can’t turn down a good deal on a fursuit.

Rummage in your cosplay closet. Everyone has one, right?

Pull out the long skeleton gloves (fingerless ha-ha) and a cape, of course.

Find that gold skeleton breastplate, black tights, and your favorite boots.

Abyss is ready to go!

Oddball ideas. Serious answers to ridiculous questions. That's how some creatures are born.

What if a student dorm was a bunch of clouds, connected together, like hamster trails?

I wonder about things like that. (Yup, this is an inside peek into my brain.)

Valerie and I tossed around ideas.

What if it rains? Does it talk? Is it alive? Several discussions and few sketches later, we had a siphoroluge named Abby.

We didn't know it at the time, but we had just created a crucial character for book 2 of the Mythomorph Academy series.

You never know where my brain might lead.

It’s okay, neither do I!

Please be patient... Abby's image is under construction.

Meet Jot

Everyone loves an emotional support dog.

But if you want a comforting companion who can also defend you against the occasional supernatural attack, you need something with teeth.

Enter the emotional support gargoyle.

Standard issue at Mythomorph Academy.

Often a little quirky, but when you truly need them, they appear.

Please remember to respect your emotional support gargoyle. Don’t make them hide in your backpack!

Making hybrids:

Pick a breed of dog and choose an animal to make a hybrid with it.

For example: a beagle-ferret. Talk about a digger! You would have no yard left at all.

A Jack Russell-Shark: energetic jaws!

A Pomeranian-Blue Jay: the world’s loudest, high pitched bark.

I don’t know what your family does for fun, but we are pretty good at amusing ourselves.