After thinking it through, my gut instinct decided to go with the Greek Moth concept as my Thunder Beast. I want to incorporate the shield idea from the tortoise design though, because I think its a neat way to use shockwaves as a defensive method when Lightning is primarily portrayed as an offensive element.
I compiled my moodboard together and sketched a few inital concepts.
@nesokaiyoh @cedricgo I'm surprised you both like 3. I thought it was the weakest design. :o
I agree with 1 and 2 though, especially 2. The dwarf look wasn't my intention but now I can't unsee it, haha. Thanks for the feedback!
@Oceane_Roh I was considering blue in place of the teal-green sections in my tests, but the teal-green seemed to harmonise more imo. I'll try some new schemes with blue later.
@nesokaiyoh Glad you think so. ^^ I've been using moth fur colours from the moodboard for reference.
Now with my Thunder-Beast design finalized for now, I started thumbnailing the character illustration. I'd been deliberating who he fights because it didn't cross my mind when I started. But then I figured, if he's a moth, he should remain the size of one, so his enemies could be predators naturally bigger than him.
The question is whether I should adorn them with Greek armour too to link with Thunder-Beast's Greek theming. I don't want to spend too much time designing his enemies too.
@Oceane_Roh @nesokaiyoh Agreed. Making lizards part of the Earth faction could work. I'll take #2 and #5 and expand on them later.
Btw thank you for the consistent feedback so far. It certainly helped. ^^