Daily Dresden Drawings – Summer Knight Mab

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Mab the Queen of Air and Darkness first appears in Harry’s office disguised as Ms. Summerset. Mab as a fairy queen is described as having the kind of beauty “men murder friends over and start wars for” which isn’t very helpful in figuring out what she looks like. So I made her curvy because Harry comments on her ass when she leaves and thinks about how low cut her shirt is. For Mab’s face I continued the giving fairy’s noses that go pretty straight from their forehead. I did this for Lea. It gives both of them a more animal/wild look to their faces. It helps push the inhuman/unearthly look to fairies. Mab has cat slit eyes and full dark lips. I gave her high arching eyebrows cause as the winter queen is supposedly all the villians in fairy tales. So I wanted to channel some Maleficent with them. She is wearing a women’s suit. The length of her skirt and high of her heals and the low cut of her top are all explained as appropriate for professional settings, but just barely. Her hair is described as white but pulled up in a way that makes it look like cloud behind her head. I assume a bun from the rest of her professional deguise but something with enough give/styling so be visible from the front. So basically a less uniform version of the hair Jean Grey had is the Hellfire Club before going all Dark Phoenix. So yeah know, referencing a different black queen.

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