your project looks awsome! :smiley: but, lets get to the point, your guns, the guns look awsome and for the sake of weight I would choose a bullpup design (magazine thingy is behind the grip, makes it more compact) so you might want to take inspiration from the Famas a french made bullpup rifle. so it isn't that bulky, good for CQC well, decent a smg or shotgun would shine there. but you also get a good amount of accuracy and range. very important, a variable scope that is linked to your visor is handy for zooming in and more accurate shots. a electromagnatic rife or guas rifle (think railgun) might be more sci fi though, it doesn't use any chemical reactions to ''fire'' the gun, so no smoke trails for tracking you in the distance, no bullet casings to use as clues/breadcrumps. you get it probally. a energy weapon that shoots plasma might be a bit too power consuming ,since it uses a electromagnetic field to keep it enclosed, which needs to be supplied with (1)power at a (2)distance while (3)traveling, and removing it just before impact. its strong but probally still only on a big space ship.

as for the suit(s) I would go with a fully closed off design, you do not want those crazy fantasy bugs exposing your brains to weird toxins do you :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: and you can use the helmet to lift the limits humans have on their view width. you can create cameras around the helmet so she can see a 360 degrees around her at all times. so no rogue will think of sneaking up on her back! :laughing: maybe add some kind of external skeleton on the suit (exoskeleton intergrated into the suit) for maximum awsomeness :smiley: and ofcourse being able to use those big ass sci fi melee weapons is also a plus , a small hip pocket with a tactical knife is handy which might be able to double as a plasma cutter. , a slot for a oxygen tank on the back or neck for underwater combat with those fantasy fish races. or do the classic ''dynamite into a pond'' trick. you need a communication device, so maybe a little antena on the helmet ? a couple of high explosive to breach a castle wall? or a laser designator to indicate the area a space ship needs to bombard from orbit? ( if not energy weapon google kinetic bombardment satalites). thats some next level micheal bay. :laughing: I could go on and on as you can see. but I will leave you with this first.

Good luck :smiley:

Damn, so good.

I can see Marc influence all over your work, and I mean that as a compliment. For me Marc's style is like if Moebius and Anime had a baby, can't go wrong if that.

@andrewnimble I think my first sketch looks like marcs because it was the last thing I remember seeing. SO unfortunately(not really I guess :sunglasses: ) it kinda just came out like that.
I believe I can slim down the armor a bit more and make it more sleek. This is sci-fi so having some kind of crazy tech can allow armor to be this way. I was thinking of giving her some kind of energy things on her face. Like so scifi bit or something. Sketches will come soon. I like gun number 3 as well. I love melee so a plasma sword-ish weapon would be cool. Come one you gotta be team sci fi after that feedback lol. Good luck though and thanks a lot.

@majmufin My sci-fi teammate in crime. First off let me say thanks for all the ideas. Love the the tips and ideas on the gun design works. I'll get started on some sketches. Making a new ref board. We have to remember this is sci-fi so new tech can always be made to make things easier and better. We gotta look into the future and continue to tweak things to make them better. So maybe a new type of plasma weapon can be made to make things easier for out champions of the future.
Yeah no crazy bugs missing with my characters brain. :grin: Field of vision is definitely important. I will have an drawing of an exoskeleton. I was thinking of her having some kind of nanits that can become anything. Think Bayonetta with her hair being her clothes but nanits instead. A knife on the hip? Got it. :smile: Ok so my brain is working and its telling me that she can be some sort of android made from nanits or an alien with nanit nanotech stuff. I know what you mean with going on and on about this stuff. :relieved:

@Iago_Cavalcante Thank you!! :grinning: I believe the reason I have a lot of Marc influence is because seeing his art and watching his videos is why I started doing art again. Honestly didn't know who Moebius was so I quickly looked it up. Interesting stuff there.

Waou that's just amazing ! I can not wait to see more ♪

There will be more to come. Thank you. :sunglasses:

Dayum those guns look awesome! (I really like number 3) All the design, anatomy and all looks very good! maybe I'd like to see more story/emotion in the image itself, there's much time left still to explore and go crazy!

@morgane There will be more to come. Thank you. :sunglasses:
@mavkrogan I'll add the story and emotion stuff for the illustration step. Thank you for the feedback. I will go crazy as much as I can.

He's so good.

I see Enki Bilal influences too. But yeah, I don't know, maybe @marc don't even know these guys.

No problem mate. Well I've always been more into magical stuff and mystical creatures. :smiley: And right now I am working on some character concepts in sci-fi style as a "job" kind of stuff so I think I will seize the opportunity to go Fantasy here :smiley: Wish you good luck as well since that is the only thing that could possibly help your team to win hahaha :smiling_imp: !

Great stuff, make me think about my design may not works right maybe need more trubine than just in the wing area.

I just now saw the arm blade again and thought ''hmm, arent those like really impractical, a sword in the hand can move very fluidly but on the forearm is kind of like those wood chopping machines, very telegraphed where it wil strike'' maybe have tiny plasma blades on her finger tips as claws?

Designs look great! :smile: I was thinking for your sword you could do something similar to Optimus Primes sword where it is pulled out of a compartment within the gauntlet. This could create some interesting mechanics to the gauntlets.

@majmufin The gauntlets aren't only for creating a sword as they can shoot an plasma like energy. She can concentrate the energy to make the sword or shot.
But she will probably have other weapons as well.

@Bobstar4575 Funny thing is that I'm watch Transformers 4 atm of reading this. :smile: That is definitely a cool idea

Another update to my character which is now characters. I feel like I need a better character than the one I have now so I'm gonna explore some more before pushing something to final.
Here are some sketches and stuff I did. Other stuff will come later such as weapon concepts. Been putting those off for some time.


So here is the front view to the character people seem to like with some base colors. Not sure If I really like this at the moment. After seeing it in 3/4 view, some things didn't transfer well. It's still a wip and i can improve it later. Would love some feedback on where to place colors.

So here are 2 other variations I've done. Slim down armor that is more sleek. AI arms. So I like more melee like characters so I wanted to explore that while still giving her some weapons. These projected arms can take on a physical form to hold weapons an do damage. There basically plasma arms.
Lastly this is something I don't see many doing an those are mechs for the scifi side. Here is an alien infected mech bot thing.

I thought this would be a cool idea to have. A mech that fights on the front lines. Let me know what you guys think of this. Hopefully by the end of next week I have a list of different characters that you guys can vote for me to push to final.

Some awesome silhouettes you've got.. Loving the colors too!!

awesome turn out! I like the cool balance on the alien suit.

8 days later

Warning post might be a little long...So its been 8 days and some may be wondering what I've been doing :sweat_smile: . Hopefully not laying around an being lazy. Well I wasn't and I have a lot of content to show you guys. At this point I'm looking for feedback on all of the designs you are about to see so I can hopefully start the illustration part. If you like 1 or more ideas from 1 sketch that you believe can work well with another let me know. If you feel like something doesn't work, don't hesitate to point it out. I will point out my favs but if you like something else, let me know. Just want as much feedback as possible.

Lets start with old bunch with letters this time to make things easier to point out.




So from all of these, I love most if not all of them...lol :relieved:
For the characters as I said before I see them in a game like Overwatch but not in Overwatch because that would be "fanart" and that's not allowed for the contest. So I tried to cover a good range an changed things up after I made these mechs variations. Like Sketch 3 is a snake mech and sketch 4 is an muliti arm mech guy. forgot to give him his guns. The 3 different style of female characters.
Just to talk about the mechs, they are bug inspired to give it a more alien look. I was also inspired by Shin Godzilla, Evangelion and Gundam.


In my personal opinion this set here might be my favorite of them all. The characters Seem and feel like that have more impact. It also follows my personal brief of a sleek character with an companion bot. After watching Starwars I remembered I could use cloth and fuse that with synthetic armor and scifi shapes like a circle. The idea is to have good contrast in materials with plastics, metals and cloth. Hair styles...I don't know, maybe I should do some more. I like them.

Anyway because I have so many character sketches, i have a lot to work with now when it comes to the illustration phase. I hope to get to some black an white comps soon so I can get some feedback on them as well.

Factors I want you guys to think of are:
Is the character bad ass?
Do I see them doing something epic?
Is is Sci-fi?
Do they look like a fun character to play in a game or see in a film?

My small brief was( didn't use all of these per character)
DPS ish character basically has to be a star/main character type.
Agile
Sleek
Badass
Quick
Can have weapons or be a brawler
Boosters(glide boots)

Thanks a lot in advance and I look forward to everyone feedback.