Because the voodoo religion she’s originally part of is African, she had to get that beautiful dark skin. I found out, that the Nilotic people have the darkest skin tone on the world so she will have that, too. Her jewelry needs to be copper - it is part of her legend and also a highly conductive metal which fits her element and will probably be an interesting part for the illustration. White cloth fits her legend, too and it is a great color contrast. It was important to me to give her a modern look.
I like number 4, 10 and 14 most, but 4 has the most interesting Silhouette I guess, so I will go on with that.
Did some sketches and I’m really not sure which one to work out - Any suggestions?
I personally like D for the concept, although composition and gesture wise C is also really nice. Maybe if you combined those ideas? The show of emotion she expresses and that she's protecting vulnerable people really gives it a lot of character and depth moreso than just a cool image imo
Many thanks for your feedback @nesokaiyoh‚ I highly appreciate it! You’re absolutely right - I like the dynamic of C, too but the emotional aspect of D gives much more depth. I also asked some other people and most chose C and D as their favorite. So I did another sketch where I tried to mix both and I‘m satisfied with the rough result - hopefully I am able to finish that scene in time 
Ahh beautiful rendering so far, and those expressions are really good! I'm glad you went for this one in the end, I do have to say her expression in particular is really well done, difficult to work on emotions like that but you nailed it completely! Her pose too, very expressive
many thanks for your kind words @nesokaiyoh 
I really love to catch and display emotions - they're giving so much depth to a character. I'm currently writing my master thesis about expression through body language because I'm really fascinated about the whole emotion theme 
Just started the research but I'm curious where it will take me in the end.
Anyway I didn't work on the artwork yesterday - sometimes one needs a social live 
but I did today and this is how a came so far - will start with the refinementment tomorrow - still a lot to do but every part is at least base rendered and that's a huge step 
Absolutle incredible work! Wish you good luck! 
thank you @Sergei_Pakhomov I wish you good luck, too
Wow this is a great drawing! I love your character, gives off a Star Wars vibe, I know this is a WIP but I would say add more lighting bolts/vfx maybe some dust flying at the front to give it more depth
many thanks for your feedback @yazziixx - I'll definitely add more vfx, particles and SPARKLES!!!! But all that vfx stuff is the very last thing I do because I'm getting distracted and it is way to easy to lie to myself and say "yeah I don't have to work this out, it will be hidden behind the special effects" which leads to unclean parts and putting effects where I wouldn't have them placed if I had worked out everything before 
Besides it is really annoying to turn those vfx layers off and on again all the time to work on the stuff around it^^
