I did these artworks back in Inktober last month, while I was going through the 'No Prompts' route aka doing my own drawings.
Because I found myself a liking in the short-length curly hairstyle, I've decided to start working on the character design concepts for this female hero, at least two weeks before I learned ArtWar3 is happening. First was a character expression exercise shortly after I completed Inktober.
And then began working on one of the planned lists of costume designs I had in mind for the project.
This is basically the start of my process two weeks prior to finding out about this competition. Now that I've joined, I'm going to skip to full armour design stage straight away.