More Elemental Monsters and Monster Evolutions
I finished painting the wood creatures from the earlier sketches. The names starting from the left: Bark Stichija, Splinter Stichija, Split Trunk Stichija, Branch Stichija in the center, Root Stichija, Burl Stichija and Rotten Trunk Stichija.
Also I had an idea to make the Paper Stichija monster from earlier into an evolving monster, here are my sketches for that:
Each monster has a tier assigned to it in the game, and a minority of monsters also have evolution lines. However, I want to have different number of evolutions in many cases and also some monsters might skip a tier instead of rising in them one by one. I think that would be a need little game mechanic to try to figure out which monsters do that and potentially get access to some more powerful/useful monsters quicker if you can do it.
In this case specifically the monster would evolve from Paper Stichija ( tier 1 ) to Book Stichija ( tier 3 ) to Codex Stichija ( tier 5 ) to Archive Stichija ( tier 7 ). Tier 7 is the highest for now, but I might have some monsters later on that go higher.