A generic female water faerie

It's a mix of a greek chiton for women as well as a multi-layered dress with mesopotamian patternings. I'm including a few of the references I used.

(Also all of my faerie designs lack shoes cuz they float around so they don't need them)

A generic male fire faerie and a generic female fire Faerie.

Twitter crop is going to butcher the sketches if I include the references in the same tweet so they're going to be in a reply instead.

The generic male faerie actually wasn't off any reference. I had already defined "poofy pants" as the male fire faerie look through my design for Agni so that naturally evolved out of that.

(I'm bad at drawing shirtless guys so it looks a little wonky lol)

The generic female faerie had a few more references. I most took the dress in the first picture, opened up the front, and then adapted the collar from the second. Lemme tell you, repeating floral patterns are hell to draw and I'm honestly surprised at how good it looks lol.

Updating this thread since I completed the series. The faeries below are generic wind faeries. If it wasn't obvious already, these are inspired by traditional Slavic clothing and are probably the most traditionally european things I have ever designed lmao

A few references. I mostly stole the designs on the first for the male faerie and on the second for the female faerie. I decided to make the sleeves long because I like long sleeves and also these are wind faeries. Shit gets cold up there.

And to round it off, generic male and female earth faeries. Their clothing is a mix of chinese and japanese aesthetics. Of note-- I have no clue how to fake draw chinese/japanese patterning so the result is that weird quasi-dragon/snake looking thing

I basically stole Citan's outfit for the male faerie lol. I was originally going to give him sleeves, but I decided against it since the sleeveless look works better. Originally, the female design would've been a mix of different styles, but it ended up becoming its own thing.

I was going to give her the shawl like in the reference for Tang Dynasty women, but it evolved into that weird cape thingy. I also got tired of designing straight up dresses for all the female designs so I decided to get a little creative here with the open front

Some observations I had while drawing this set: patterns matter. So much. Seriously, the main thing that differentiates clothing is patterns and not shape. Give someone a plain dress and they would only be able to say "european." Add on slavic patterning, and boom, slavic.

The female fire faerie design literally would not give that middle eastern vibe without the floral patterns, it's honestly kind of insane. Same thing with the slavic dress-- it almost looks german to me at times but the patterning manages to seperate it pretty well.

I honestly think this set of designs will be some of my favorites for quite a while. They're all quite expressive and unique (the massively improved anatomy isn't hurting either). Other than some posing that needs to be fixed, I'm quite satisfied with this end result.