Here is some of my previous silhouettes. I was looking for differrent kind of electric character. I wanted a character with stilts.

Finaly I decided to take a more medieval character. A priestess of electricity : Brana

My character is a priestess of electricity. The clothes and armor are inspired from the slavic culture.
Her shield is simultaneously her main weapon. It mixes electric technology and traditional eastern country medieval style.
The helmet is based on traditional bride hat from Bulgaria, Poland, Serbia, and other Eastern coutries.
I don't want to give the impression of anachronisme between the character and her technology. The electric logo will be illustred like a
traditional medieval motif to help this. The electricity of her shield comes from copper circuits.
The patterns come from eastern and scandinavian countries. The shape of the shield is inspired from Pavois (rafter shields) mixed with more traditional medieval shields in which
the copper circuits are imbricated. Having a weak armor, the shield has to be big enough to protect Brana, and not too big to attack enemies.
She has a dagger to deffend herself in the case she lost her shield.

Here are my researches for the Hat/Helmet. It is a area of the character which needs to be eyecatch with a lot of detail.
It's a mix between a princess hat with the jewels and a warrior helmet with the iron parts.
The mood board was quite useful here with all the different shapes of the traditional hat.

I worked on the shape of the shield.
I tried a dynamo electric shield before using again the copper circuit.
The patterns are inspired by medieval designes (the eagle from Poland, the keys of knowledge...) but also some attribute are taken from the helmet.
I tried to introduce bateries in some shield design but I think it's not a so great idea. It will cut too much with the medieval inspiration whithout bringing any plus to the shapes.
I tried also to create a global concept of the character to see the size of the shield next to Brana.
The shield will have to be a big spot of interest like the helmet.

Here is the concept of the scabbard of a short blade, adapted to the size of a big belt.

I worked on different concept of clothes. I tried to change shapes, textures, jewels and patterns. I realize that sometimes it comes too close to the viking style.

The last piece of equipment I've worked on are boots. I was inspired by shoes from different centuries and civilisations like Ottoman or Varagians.

Here is a concept of what Brana will be without colors.
I kept some jewels and took other pieces from my clothes concepts. I chose also the third shield shape I did and here is a sight of the backside with some patterns and russian signatures.

I begin the final composition without colors with a very short timing. Don't know yet if I will save the lines after.

Here is my composition for Art War IV.
Great experience but short timing

Awesome! "light and peace" on the shield. It is a russian language. And her clothers look like Russian. You have a nice knowledges about this culture. With love from Russia =) (sorry for my bad English)

Thank you very much for your words !
I love your work too
Indeed I tried to make the more researches I could :+1:
With love from France :smile:

Thank you !
I took some time (maybe too much) for the process ^^
I realy like your character and your work on it :pray:

Here is the last update !
I tried to take away the lines without destroying everything.
I also worked a little on the anatomy.