@andrewnimble I think my first sketch looks like marcs because it was the last thing I remember seeing. SO unfortunately(not really I guess ) 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. 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. 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.

@Iago_Cavalcante Thank you!! 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.

There will be more to come. Thank you.

@morgane There will be more to come. Thank you.
@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.

So I don't go without posting something. Here is a FPV of the gaulet arm things for the concepts at the bottom. Just thinking about it.

Very sketchy at the moment

@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. 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.

@sanguine Glad you like them
@independhans I wasn't sure the colors were good so thats good to hear.

Warning post might be a little long...So its been 8 days and some may be wondering what I've been doing . 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
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.