No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 1: The Main Cast

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Pug - inspired by the demon of the same name from Ben Jonson's The Devil Is An Ass
• Mephistopheles - inspired specifically by Marlowe's take on the character
• Matilda - inspired by the demon of the same name from The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
• Alichino - inspired by the demon of the same name from The Divine Comedy
• Lucifer - based specifically on the take on Lucifer from Paradise Lost
• Beelzebub
• Belphegor
• Abaddon - inspired specifically by Apollyon from Pilgrim's Progress
• Asmodeus
• Mammon
• Sheol

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 2: Oh fuck I'm already out of subtitles

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Lilith - despite the name, she's more inspired by Sin, the daughter of Lucifer in Paradise Lost
• Paimon
• Moloch - inspired specifically by the Moloch in Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl
• Naiberius - inspired by the demonic Cerberus in The Divine Comedy
• Marchiosas
• Belial (oh fuck this one is rough, she deserves a better design)
• Mulciber
• Pegleg - based on the demon of the same name from Tom Waits's The Black Rider
• Iago - inspired by the theory that Iago in Othello may in fact be a demon (Othello himself seems convinced as much by the end of the play)
• Scratch - https://youtu.be/RIau2KHj9-I?si=vzvNkPTmh3VzlPQ1
• Astaroth - given the fact that Astaroth is a demonization of the goddess Ishtar, which I learned AFTER making this design, I'd make an Astaroth a lady if I designed them today. As is, his design is inspired by Hellboy's take on Astaroth.
• Amon(g Us)

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 3: The Malebranche

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Malacoda
• Draghignazzo
• Barbariccia
• Cagnazzo
• Graffiacane
• Ciriato
• Calcabrina
• Scarmiglione
• Rubicante
• Farfarello
• Libicocco

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 4: More of 'Em

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Furfur
• Abalam
• Bebal
• Vual
• Azazel
• Hobob
• Nick
• Gressil
• Beleth
• Rosier
• Bathin
• Nelchael

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 5: Still More of 'Em

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Nisroc
• Vepar
• Valac
• Baal
• Pazuzu - ok this one I only included because of Pazuzu being the main demon of The Exorcist, and the goal of this project at the time was just to draw a bunch of demons from big works of demon fiction I knew. I'm less comfortable with including Pazuzu as a demon now than I was then given that he's from his own mythology with its own rules.
• Lamashtu - and she's included because I was playing a lot of Pathfinder at the time and it has Pazuzu and Lamashtu as rival demon lords, but, again, kinda uncomfy with that now
• Verrine - this was the design that made me feel most of the previous ones were too stripped down/simplified - demons should have more of a sense of style, they shouldn't all be naked beasties
• Gemory
• Eligos
• Abigor
• Saleos
• Marbas

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 6: I Can't Believe There's Still More of Them

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Sitri
• Merihem
• Bifrons
• Allocer
• Sonneillon
• Veltis
• Flauros
• Ukobach
• Bolfry
• Sabnach
• Morad
• Malthus

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 7: Yet More Demons

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Andromalius
• Halphas
• Melchom
• Vassago
• Mastema
• Baphomet
• Agares
• Pythius
• Ronove
• Furcas
• Antaura
• Vapula

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 8: Are We Done Yet?

By request, I am posting the demon concept art I made for what would eventually become my first novel, No Sympathies. It's art that's over a decade old at this point and kind of hard for me to look at without thinking about its myriad flaws - I'd rework most if not all of these designs now, and even back then I kinda felt like I got a lot better at designing demons towards the end of the batch than I was at the beginning, which made me want to redo the whole project again. Someday I might, too, though probably only as a series of pencil sketches.

But here, for posterity and nostalgia's sake, they are. In this batch, from top row to bottom, left to right:

• Zagan
• Forneus
• Samael
• Keryon
• Abyzou
• Valefor
• Botis
• Bune
• Focalor
• Krampus

No Sympathies Old Demon Concept Art Dump Part 10: More Recent Art

Shortly before my carpal tunnel set in, I started sketching new takes on my demons, with the art from the Dictionnaire Infernal being a reference point (to mixed results - some demons looked good in their Dictionnarie Infernal poses, but others, like my Lucifer, did not), with the goal being to not only do them better this time around, but do even MORE demons than before.

It fell apart when my carpal tunnel set in and I was told to lay off drawing so damn much. I'd still like to do it eventually, but I'd have to start from scratch again.

Drawing some more Godzilla gang fellows, with Megalon taking the starring role. Always loved this big lug.

And then... hmm... don't remember these guys from any Godzilla movie... guess they must be from the comics.