Behold, the creeps.
I’ve made their faces more bug-like and added two new types.

The original concept art was made by RicePirate in 2011!

Previously known as Bits or Ores, Cores are elemental bombs that self-destruct as soon as they can. The second image shows some designs that were too interesting relative to the others, and they had to be simplified.

These guys took quite a lot of drawing since the Gunslinger and Swordslinger in past games just recycled existing weapons, while here I had to make new weapons to match the style.

You can probably guess what the historic inspirations are for each of the 4 enemy types…

Here’s an image showing the steps in designing and drawing a new foe… though in this case it’s based on an existing one.

The drawing starts with Flash’s line tool, before being converted into shape fills and smoothed out a bit, and finally shaded in. I need to pose the foe a bit while drawing to make sure it can do all the poses I will need later.

Extra detail: their hats become damaged when these foes are hurt.

Here’s some updated jellyfish enemies, that you may remember from some old EBF games.
They’re known for casting elemental spells and inflicting status effects with melee attacks.