Yeah I’m really digging this… The armor reminds of airplane wings. Not saying that as a bad thing. Very unique look… I’d agree with the soft comment. Although if you made the left side of the chest armor where it goes around the arm, into more of a cross section that would fix that and might look pretty cool… Obviously not like this image, I couldn’t find plane wing cross section, but it gets the point across… OR you could just redesign it…
Ooooh I totally didnt think of that, great idea! I will try that, as well as a few paintovers of different armor types, and go with that.
I also might shorten the blades on his hand, or remove them completely.
Thanks for the feedback alex!
Original Mike, love it. Small dagger in right hand seems a little weak to me though. And skully reminds me of my kid 
Deadbear - its you? :love:
U looks alike with art and design with him.
Just curious. You great and he is great - it must be you. if i’m not wrong. :shrug:
Ha! Unfortunately for me, I lack such talents. Deadbear is a good pal of mine, but no, I am not him.
Thanks for the kind words though!
update!
I came around and got rid of the tiny dagger, and gave him a neato pretty dang huge mace thing. I always felt like death by blunt force would be so much worse then being sliced in half or stabbed, though he can do that as well.
Anyways, this is just a rough paintover of what I had, but I like it a lot more, its kind of what I wanted initially, but was having a hard time getting it rolling.
Lemme hear those crits and comments!
I like the latest revisions to the character! I really like the Mace. Now that you’ve added it I think you need to tone down some of the arm/ shoulder armor detail. The new image looks like the guy would have a very hard time moving around let alone fight with his badass mace!
For instance the shoulder pad and the top of his glove are almost colliding. I’d just chop those a bit!
-Vin
Thanks Keight!
Vinod - Yeh, I was thinking about some of that. I will definitely make sure hes fully movable before I finalize the design. Good eye! I also need to finish designing his leg armor and stuff, I kind of just threw something generic on there for now.
Just a small update, added some detail to the legs and such. I will be doing some more sketches soon, follow my my illustration & model sheet.
What do you guys think?
Love the colors. And it reminds me of nice animation concepts. Beautyfull.
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if anyone has any last input on this, iw ould love to hear it. If not, I am going to illustration model sheet.
Wahoo!
Hey Mike, really cool concept and like a lot your sketches, great!!. The armor looks awesome and perhaps the boots needs to be a bit biger to balance the design with the large weapon and left arm armor, only a comment Again, great work and looking forward for more updates. Cheers mate!! 
Thanks for your crits and comments guys!
Would love to hear your opinions on my WIP finished piece
Lookin’ good Mike!
I like the sense of weight the mace has, it’s all because of the good drawing and balance of his arm/shoulders. I think you should extend the handle of the mace a bit… he wouldn’t be able to hold it with two hands if he wanted. Plus wiht a big weapon like a mace it’s better if there’s a longer handle just for visual balance.
Can’t wait to see the finish!
-Vin
I love the character, and the animation feel to it makes it look pretty nice. The only thing I’d say is that the red cape seems like an afterthought. Maybe if you incorporated that bright red into some other element in him to make him look less flat. Otherwise it’s looking sweet. Can’t wait to see what you do with the background.
Hey Mike, AWESOME design! Dont mean to kiss ass too much but its really nice to see some original illustration styles being used. After doing an illustration degree myself, I am strugling to get my style across with this type of brief…you have inspired me to keep tryin’ though!
I love it! Your style is spot on and just brings so much life to the design! I may have a strike of the man card for saying this, but my initial reaction was, “Awwww, those little guys are so cute!”:rolleyes: Both presentations are really good. Just need to make the background more refined so it flows into the foreground compositionally (if that is even a word, i dunno).