HAH! I love the guy with the eel arms! Flipping them around so they are biting him was a great idea.
As far as the materials go, try just thinking about how they might be placed to allow for comfort underneath the armor even though it doesn't really apply to the story concept that he would care about comfort at all. Punching up the filigree work on the armor can also provide a solid way to add some material variety.
Yes, it definetly needs some of those 
I think I'll be going into defining patterns after settling with the big pieces.
Tried some stuff with gemstones but will have to scatter more through out the design to have it as not just a random one time only thing.
Will be checking some other armour ideas and finally settle for a (skirt?...) bottom piece. 
Oh yeah, getting interesting now! Those bits of color make that pop perfectly. ... hehe still love Eels mcGee.
@PeterH he's definetly making it on the finished painting
Still needs a lot of work over him though
ooooo 1 love him! espacially the b+a the glow suits him well, ! love the pop of color on the red maybe you can combine them in a way thats not "too much".
I think the see through shield is a really nice idea! can't wait to see more! good luck! 
Getting some flash backs to the Iron Golem boss from dark souls but with some extra ethereal glowy-ness to it. Really like the Villains hand whips too.
Nice character, interesting modifications for the armor, keep it up!
I am really liking D there, but it could just be that the color splashes are so very attractive to the eye.
B+A combo look good to me, do whatcha wanna do and what is best for your stuff, just admiring the updates, hoping to see more.
You are 100% right
D here
Has been catching a lot of eyes
Without the colors it does seem to be between A and B+A for the hightest contrast probably
For that I'll definetly need all the luck I can get
Maybe the light coming out of the red crystals?
Will give it a try!!
Thanks for the help! <3
@3dc Yes, will do Thank you!
@br00dley Got him done and ready for the final piece!
@Gil_Ascher Thank you!! Will be showing the colors in the next post!
@krizevil Thank you! Will do! he's sort of a mix between alphonse from Full Metal Alchemist and Imperius from Diablo 3
@PeterH Got the name down too
Also helped establish the narrative behind to better guide the rest of the work
It's sort of a mix of StarCraft and Diablo. This creatures in his arms are some kind of parasite that has taken over his mind and body. They've come to the realm of humanity and are taking over.
They've now found their way into the gate for reaching the heaven like realm. Gate of which my main character is guardian of.
So regarding Eels Mcgee here... he's a human soldier who's fallen to the parasites control. Whilst Abscelon here is a deity from that other realm that keeps unworthy beings from entering through said gate.
Will be exploring this further and start testing powers for my champion
Really enjoy all your explorations here !
So interesting concepts ^^
Keep it up : D
Awesome man, I love the spreading infection effect as well, solid choice for what appears to be a fun light source.
Update!
After really settling for a narrative I had a better picture of the roles of the characters, and where I want this to go.
So Eels Mcgee's ears looked like an Elves. Ever since I was drawing him this bugged me with maybe trying this parasyte thing with multiple races. Hence these guys:
Seeing the design of other parasite-ish creatures like the facehuggers, necromorphs, clickers... guided me to try mixing pieces of multiple things, bones, muscles... And establish sort of a theme for the infection.
I decided to dive deeper into what the evil my characters are fighting is, so that I could now with a much clearer vision, develop a much richer and consistant general picture of things.
These guys only have mixes of sea creatures mashed into them and aren't exactly infected, but they drive some of the point home.
Now as for the character I don't think it'd be geat to have an Imperius looking dude fighting lobsters and shrimp. So will be adding another character. Good thing is he can be any race, make him sort of a fisherman to keep him within theme, or a pirate or something that's not supposed to hunt fish so that the evil is truly his weakness and there can be a real struggle in this narrative.
I realize I really underestimated the importance of the narrative and now have a lot to add and some to take out, but I also like this a lot better now.
thank you to anyone who took the time to read this
@PeterH I really liked the light source too, I'm gonna try to bring it back into these . It makes the disease recognizable and really pop out in a much more simple and less gruesome way.
@mr_dessin Thank you! Keeping it up! and amping it up!
The harpoon-ish gun seems like fun ^^ (but it also really depends what you're going to do for illustration ?)
Maybe jump directly in doing illustration thumbnails so you'll have better focus on what you (really) want.
