Hello This is my second time trying to participate in an art war hopefully it goes well
I will be doing a Giant that utilizes lightning to attack.
The idea is he will harness lightning through his helmet, and then through the runes on his body transfer that energy to his axes, I'm still working on the design but here are some inspirational pictures I used as reference:

I picked these out with a lot of thought behind them, I wrote some notes about what they are and in blue kind of why I picked them without going too far into it.

Here are some Rough sketches I started with:

Here's the latest sketch I pushed the proportions a bit more, but this is more or less the idea, It's very very rough mind you, so excuse the mess I normally wouldn't share stuff this rough but I figured it's good to document it, and show the process.

Here's a composition i roughed out based on an older design which I am now changing lol.

So I'm changing the design in the composition but I quite like the way it looks so I figure that the final will look something similar to this,
Excuse the art dump, I've been on and off and been on the fence about actually entering this contest but I think I will commit to it and finish out a design and a final illustration
Wish me luck!

I painted the character, but was still figuring out the design of him as he was lacking direction but i think it's mostly there. I am probably going to do the illustration in the next 10 days.
I took the past few days resolving and rendering some of the design solutions i came up with one problem was showing the character scale of the character and also adding detail to the weapon, so i had the idea that the electricity could trigger the axe to have a super magnetic field and the weapons and armor of old warriors buried in the sea and earth, would fly up and stick to the axes due to magnetic field generated and then they would electromagnetically welded on! I was super proud of that.
so now i'm excited to go ahead and work on the final illustration which will probably look like my rough concept, with the sunk ships and the character going for an attack, i also want to flesh out some of the ideas I've introduced and have thought of though they are roughly in now! wish me luck !

Thanks guys! I'm still working out the kinks, it's getting there and I'm going all out trying to incorporate everything I learned recently!

Final illustration start!
i'm going to be also designing a gate in the back ground that looks like it's supposed to be protected. as you can see he will be in a vast sea with a lot of viking ship wrecks, and thunder clouds with lightning striking the ocean!
if i feel that i have the time i'll do more concepts I wanted to do an alternative view of the helmet to explain to myself how it looks and works, and where the straps are and the arm that has the lighting rods on it as well as the giant axe and stuff so i'll see if i can work on the illustration fast enough i'll go back and expand on those ideas and then hopefully improve the final comp!
I'm hoping to get a feeling of fantasy and epicness.
That's all for now!

Made some more progress starting to go tighter in the focal areas now...