Concept Art

These are some prototype images from Big Blue Bubble, showing early versions of the Monsters and other game features as the game was being developed. While some physical features of the Monsters have remained in the released game, others have been modified from their prototype versions.

Natural Monsters

A concept of Noggin, likely during the tail end of its creation.

Noggin concepts.

Single-Element Monster concepts.

Tweedle Concepts: The left concept was nicknamed "Flynecone" by the Monster-Handlers, and on the right is Owlesque. Flynecone's wings were reused for Rare Congle; Owlesque's horns were reused for Rare Tweedle, and its face was reused for Grumpyre.

Some sketches for Tweedle.

Concept art for Tweedle, Grumpyre, and Cybop. Grumpyre being here implies it was originally drafted as a Natural Monster.

Two vastly different concepts of Noggin.

A Mammott prototype. The name "Sea Sharp" was proposed for this Monster during the game's development.

Some sketches of Mammott.

An early version of Mammott.

An early version of Mammott.

A concept of Toe Jammer, which inspired its Epic variant.

Two very early concepts of Toe Jammer.

Some concepts for Potbelly.

A nearly finished Potbelly.

A nearly finished Potbelly.

A concept of Drumpler.

A close to completion Maw, whose teeth were reused for Epic Maw. The sharp teeth were removed to make it more “approachable” and less menacing.

Different colorations of Maw. The left coloration was readapted into Epic Maw.

Early concept of Maw; most of its features were reused for its Rare and Epic variants.

Some Maw sketches.

Codenamed the Operah Twins, they aren't a concept for one specific monster. Although, it was used for Maw's molars, Mammott's yellow eyes, Furcorn's fur, and the hands used for Pummel and Spunge.

Another version of the Operah Twins. This specific design was referenced in the new 4.3.0 Map as a form of Monstrous Calligraphy, depicting a fearsome creature from parts unknown.

A nearly finished Furcorn design with a walk cycle.

Some concept art for Furcorn, closely resembling the Operah Twins.

Concept art of Furcorn.

Concept design of Cybop, which would later be reused for Rare Cybop.

Some Cybop sketches.

Cybop and Drumpler concepts.

Oaktopus concepts.

Some Oaktopus concepts.

Concept art of Oaktopus.

A Dandidoo concept.

Concept art for Shrubb

An early version of Shrubb.

Fwog concepts.

Pango concepts, including "Owlesque".

Quibble concepts.

T-Rox and Bowgart concepts; some of their features were incorporated into their respective Rares.

Concept art for T-Rox.

An early version of Reedling.

Some Bowgart concepts. The spots and horns were incorporated into Rare Bowgart's design.

Some Reedling concepts.

Concept of Reedling and Quarrister.

Concepts of Congle, Pummel, and Clamble.

Some sketches of Congle.

An early non-shaded version of Pummel.

A nearly finished Spunge.

A nearly finished Spunge.

An early version of Spunge.

Concepts of PomPom, T-Rox, Scups, and Thumpies. According to file names shown in the video "Making a Monster with My Singing Monsters - What it Takes to Design a Video Game", the PomPom concept was named "gal_tails" and the Scups concept was named "fwoot".

A early version of Scups without a mouth; which may have been an inspiration for Rare Scups.

Prototype Egg for Scups, as shown in the Goals menu.

Some PomPom sketches.

Some early concepts for Scups

Concepts of PomPom, Thumpies, and Fwog.

Concept art for PomPom, Cybop, and Riff. There are also sketches of some birds, likely from Plant Island.

Shellbeat, Deedge, and Quarrister concepts.

Quarrister concept.

Concept of Floot Fly as the Earth Quad-Elemental.

Entbrat concept.

Entbrat and Riff concepts.

Mimic, a scrapped Quint-Element Monster; the back of its head was reused for Rare Clamble. It has since returned in Dawn of Fire and the main game.

More concept art of Mimic, showing its original bio and nicknames.

Concept art for Mimic in Dawn of Fire (1/2).

Fire Monsters

Concept art for Kayna, originally known as Kano, was later reused for Rare Kayna.

More Kayna concepts.

A early version of Young Kayna, whose face was different.

Stogg concepts.

Flowah concepts, with the one on the right being reused for Rare Flowah.

Glowl concepts, with the top left being reused for Epic Glowl.

An early version of Young Boskus that was brown.

Concepts of Ziggurab, with the pyramid one inspiring Epic Ziggurab

Repatillo concepts, some of which seemed to inspire Prismatic Repatillo.

Repatillo concepts.

Floogull concepts.

Barrb concepts.

Various concepts for Bisonorus.

A colored version of one of the Bisonorus concepts.

Doose, an even earlier version of Bisonorus that was intended to be released in the 1.16.0 update to Dawn of Fire.

Tring concepts.

Concepts of Woolabee ("Lyresheep") and Flum Ox ("Oxmonk").

Concepts for various Fire Monsters (Rootitoot, Ziggurab, Wynq, Thrumble, Phangler, Sooza, Woolabee, and Boskus). The horns on the Boskus concept were reused for Epic Boskus.

A work-in-progress of Purple Prismatic Flum Ox

Candelavra concepts. Candelavra's Prismatic form could be inspired from these.

Concept of Knucklehead from when it was created as a Monster for Dawn of Fire (codenamed "cubehands").

An incomplete drawing or animation rig of Gnarls - top right is likely concept art by Randy.

Epic Sooza concepts

Rare Gnarls concepts

Magical Monsters

Nearly complete concepts of Theremind.

Two very different concepts of Poppette.

Very close-to-complete concepts of Bonkers.

Another concept of Bonkers, featuring a two-headed Monster that bumps its heads, slams its tail, claps, and stomps its feet to make sound

Tweedle (left) and Yuggler (right) concepts; the ears were reused for Rare Yuggler.

Three vastly different concepts of Tapricorn. The upper right concept could have been reused for Clavi Gnat.

A near complete concept of Periscorp.

An early, unfinished version of Periscorp

Two very different concepts of Rooba. The upper-left concept was revisited in the form of Banjaw.

Various concepts of Gloptic, later repurposed for Cataliszt.

Floot Fly, a scrapped Monster that would've had Quarrister's elements. It was later repurposed into the Single Element Faerie monster with a slightly different design.

Wimmzies concept, then named "QuarristHer".

Bone Monster concepts (1/3). Note the upper-left Monster, which later turned into the Pluckbill (and its Rare), who is now a Light Element Monster.

Bone Monster concepts (2/3).

Bone Monster concepts (3/3).

Knucklehead concept art, originally envisioned for My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire. The drawing was made on April 15th, 2014, and its original image was named "monster_cubehands.png".

Concept of Whaill as a Magical Sanctum Quad. It was replaced by Enchantling.

Ethereal Monsters

Early designs of all the Stable Ethereals except Reebro, Boodoo and Kazilleon.

Concepts of Nebulob.

Early concepts of Sox.

Early designs of Dragong.

Several early Jellbilly concepts.

Bellowfish concepts.

An early concept for Jeeode which looks similar to Boodoo.

A later concept of Jeeode

A more finalized Jeeode concept.

Various Dragong concepts.

An early concept of Fung Pray.

Ethereal concepts (1).

Ethereal concepts (2).

Various Ethereal concept designs.

Concept art of Whaill.

Grumpyre concept art

Supernatural Monsters

Concept sketches for Wubbox.

Discarded unique design for the Inactive Wubbox on Wublin Island.

Wubbox concept art. This was used for Wubbox's portrait.

Two concepts for Wubbox. The one on the right would later become Epic Wubbox.

Concepts for several of the Wublins.

Two different Thwok concepts.

Gheegur concepts.

An assortment of Pixolotl concepts.

Blipsqueak's concept art, which was vastly different from the final design.

Screemu concept art.

An "unpainted/early/plain Screemu created on January 14, 2016".

A composite of screenshots from "Making a Monster with My Singing Monsters - What it Takes to Design a Video Game" showing various concepts of Rare Astropod, which released on September 20th, 2023.

A lower quality but unobstructed image of 6 concept arts for Rare Astropod.

Maulch concept art

Celestial Monsters

Four different concepts for Young Blasoom. Concept C became the final design.

Potential designs for Young Syncopite.

Elder Attmoz, Hornacle, and Torrt concepts.

Early concepts of Glaishur.

Glaishur and Blasoom.

Syncopite concept.

Vhamp concepts.

Galvana concept art

Adult Plixie concepts

Legendary Monsters

Concepts of the Legendary Monsters, Tawkerr, Parlsona and Shugabush.

Many different Maggpi colors and designs. The colors from C, and the arms and feet from H, were used for Maggpi.

Early concept for the Werdos, originally called Lyriks. Unlike Werdos, one unique Lyrik was intended to appear on each of the five Natural Islands. They’ve also been (possibly) reused for BeMeebEth.

Werdo concepts.

Shugabush concepts.

Many different Stoowarb colors and designs.

Mythical Monsters

Concepts of G'joob with the horns of the upper right concept being reused for Rare G'joob. The upper left concept appears to be similar to G'day.

Concepts of Yawstrich.

Concept of Strombonin.

Another concept of Strombonin.

A digital concept of Strombonin.

Another digital concept of Strombonin.

Concept sketches of Strombonin.

More concept sketches of Strombonin.

Even more concept sketches of Strombonin.

Original Cherubble render by ErikTheCleric.

Cherubble's sketch from ErikTheCleric's U.C.E visit.

Concept art of shLep. A was used for the final design.

Concept of Hyehehe, including an artwork of Hyehehe and Cherubble by Exclaim.

Hyehehe concept art shown in the "Making of the Ultimate Creator Mythicals" YouTube video.

Concept design of Hyehehe by QuinnQwerty.

Concept design of Rare Hyehehe by QuinnQwerty.

Concepts of Anglow, Anemonons, Glimmerglaws, and Jlelljiggles.

Anglow's original sketch.

Anglow U.C.E. Visit Sketch.

Concepts of Buzzinga, including sketches of Buzzinga in a family with Arackulele or Bulbo.

Concepts of Cranchee

Seasonal Monsters

Various Seasonal Monster concepts.

Varying early designs of Punkleton.

Several concepts of Schmoochle.

Schmoochle concept, which has a bigger heart.

Blabbit concept.

An early Hoola concept which was originally called Hoop.

A pair of concepts for Hoola, one of which is PomPom with a Hula-hoop. This may have inspired Hoola to be related to PomPom.

An early version of Rare Hoola, which had gapped teeth and a different colored mouth.

Gobbleygourd concepts. 3 best resembles the final design.

Clavavera concepts, including its old in-game design.

Dipsters and Glowbes

Various Dipsters concepts.

Dipster concepts.

Glowbe concepts. The "I" Glowbe was reused for Optiglowbe. The "A" Glowbe was used for the final design of the Glowbes.

Titansouls

Phosphoran Phlox concepts

Other Monster Concepts

Early concept of Plant Island (codenamed Songster Island) with several early Monsters. The orange 'things' are actually leaves. The island itself was reused for the Spirit of Creation decoration.

A larger view of the early Plant/Songster Island concept.

Concept art of an unknown Monster. Its design bears similarities with the Tribal Island critter.

A very early concept, possibly Tweedle due to its shared features with the "Flynecone" concept. It was later used for Yuggler.

Air Island with many monster concepts.

Concept art of what is seemingly Plant Island, featuring a full body view, as well as a picture with the mouth open.

Concept art of the My Singing Monsters logo.

Concept art of what is seemingly an early Loading Screen.

Concept art for an unknown Monster, from the "Making a Monster with My Singing Monsters - What it Takes to Design a Video Game" YouTube video.

Decorations

Most of these concepts are for Decorations designed as part of the My Singing Monsters: The Board Game 'Creator Experience' rewards. A total of 14 (out of 17) were pledged for.

Concept art for Travelers' Sign, Wild Bagpipes, and Ambered Thing.

Miniature Island Complex - Resembling stacked Titans and the Fire Islands. Likely based off an unused Dawn of Fire Decoration resembling stacked Colossals.

Orb of Aklino.

Shrini concept with original design by the creator.

Shrini.

Optiglowbe.

Kab's Wax.

Harmonorb Holder.

Englobulated F.U.M..

Odd-o-Mobile.

Concept art of Rock Obstacles for Beat Hereafter.

Original sketch of the Odd-O-Mobile.

Concept art for Jarhead, Fossil-osaurus + Eerie Remains, and possibly Tree Hut or Cozee Cabin.

Structures

Skyship concept art. The Skyship ruins on Mirror Air Island resemble this iteration more than the final Skyship..

Castle concept art.

Another concept for the Castle, along with several concept Monsters.

Another Castle concept.

Concept of the DoF Level 7 Castle.

The unused Structure seen in a screenshot on the Dawn of Fire Google Play Store download page. Its design is found in the ruins of Mirror Water Island.

Concepts of the Bakery.

The evolution of the Large Bakery's design.

Islands

Fire Haven concepts.

More Fire Haven concepts.

Even more Fire Haven concepts.

An earlier version of Fire Oasis with a few differences.

The Colossingum concept.

Starhenge Concept art.

Miscellaneous

The earliest Login Screen concept.

An early version of Composer Stage, the Island seen in My Singing Monsters: Composer.

Concept of Fling a Thing!.

An early version of the Loading Screen in My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire, originally called My Singing Monsters Generations. (Note the brown Boskus).

An early version of Relics. This design was scrapped to avoid players wondering why the eggs do not hatch. It was later used as part of the Eggs-Travaganza Island Skin design.

Concept art for Mammott's Automammotton Costume.

Concept art for Wynq's Ranch Dressing Costume.

Concept art of Greatfruit Grove (when it was early in development)

A work-in-progess design of Viveine's Vessel.

Dawn of Fire

Prototype Aurorium, lacking the dirt and cracks.

A prototype version of the bamboo flute