YAY. someone else thinks about story and function as well. im so glad to know im not alone. awesome concepts, by the way! i cant wait to see the final result! :open_mouth:

by the way, including that dracula quote is mad classy dude. good stuff. <3 <3 <3

haha thanks so much, I'm glad you dig it too. I love adding that kind of stuff to my work, it's half the fun.

Here is my nightly update, currently working on the turn around, refining and tightening up the concept as a whole. This one is still pretty rough, but a lot of it is there to stay. Looking forward to polishing this and getting to work on the actual illustration.

All look pretty good to me...despite one little thing; is he Batman brother ?
I know the insigna is a bit different, but from far we could mistaken haha
(sorry for the comment, but I had to say it ^^')

Good luck for polishing everything, it's a very fierce character with much presence !
And really badass armor !

Oh and...are you going to give him some wings ?
Just an idea like that !

Ugh he's so awesome. I can't wait to see him colored!

@mr_dessin lol yeah I definitely put a couple nods to batman in there, which I may tone down a little we'll see. And yeah the initial sketch had these some wings that I plan to bring back into this, hopefully.

@rgdraw @sanguine Thank you both!

You're welcome! :smile:
Keep up the great work !

Missed my update yesterday due to busyness, but tonight I finished up my final design and gave it a color pass, fairly happy with it, but I'm never totally sure when it comes to picking a final color pallet, so we'll see if that changes again :weary:

Nice! I really like the colors you choose but you can still try some different ones :smiley:

@mr_dessin I feel the exact same way lol I'm gonna be trying a few different combos today. Looking back at it, I feel like he should maybe be a little darker in places, not getting enough "evil" vibes. The head markings I was planning to just leave as scarring, but maybe. Thanks for the feedback.

@rgdraw Thanks! Yeah for sure, the mood isn't really was I was hoping for, so definitely going to try a few more ideas.

Okay re-evaluated my life and all the decisions I have made therein, mostly focusing on my color choices and I've narrowed things down to two possibilities that I feel represent the vibe I'm going for, let me know what you think please :pray:

Now that's hard to decide haha (maybe 2, but probably 1 will match better with your blades...in the end why not a green new model ? just saying like that ^^)

Oh and what about the insignia ? : D

I actually tried a couple green comps and I just couldn't get on board with any of them because it would have needed to be a pretty dark green and at that point I may as well just paint him black lol

Fair enough then haha
I read in your brain or something :open_mouth: haha

I kinda like 1 better as it has a better visual balance (for example the darker boots are better pushed into the shadow of the drapes/cloak/leg fabric (what was that called, speaking is hard? XD). Or it's just that the blue is a bit too strong/vibrant so maybe dull it a bit?
In any case, he's coming along nicely!

You're welcome :smile:
Both color palette works nicely but I have to admit, the right one is really cool! It's the one I would go for without question (and that doesn't happen a lot xD)

Colors are looking much better! I really like those dark blues