Hi guys,

I am late to the party but I will try and make up for the lost time.
I wish you all good luck with the challenge and I will, hopefully, be seeing you all at the end line.

For my first post here are just few very quick sketches and color explorations for Mr.Blue.

Cheers,
Dario J.

Thank you tbrk, juliapires.jp98 and 3dc for the comments.

I decided to go with third version in the sketch sheet because I think combining animal and human anatomy will give bit more uniqueness to the characters. I haven't yet decided on the color scheme but we will see where coloring phase will take me. Even I don't know how it will look like at the end.

Here is bit more progress for today.

Thank you,
Dario J.

Hey guys,

it's time for one more update. I have been busy last few days. I present to you Mr.Blue, the Institute's finest.

Along the way I have decided how he will manipulate the lightning. In short, with help of a suitcase. I'll work on whats in the suitcase in next few days and in the meantime feel free to let me know what you think about Mr.Blue.

Thank you,
Dario J.

Hi guys,

after few days of sketching and thinking abut the functionality of the briefcase I decided when opened it will fold out into weapon called Perun's Hand.

Perun's Hand is a device which takes electricity from the air, amplify it and shoots through the palm of the hand. (Electric conductors --> Magnifying Transmitter --> Tesla Coil). Because this weapon is quite heavy there is Magnetic Levitation device which makes it easier to hold and handle.

I also took liberty and did some world building. I wanted to show few snippets of the world through blueprint of the weapon. I have few more ideas for world building and will be posting that in next updates.

I think everybody knows who Nikola Tesla is but probably some of you do not know who Perun is. In Slavic (and by that Croatian) mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning and storms.

Here are some rough sketches of my thought process for the weapon.

And here are finals for the Perun's hand and blueprint.

Thank you @jj-garner @Oceane_Roh and @nesokaiyoh
@Eugen_Khandusenko, Mr.Blue is definitely enigmatic character. Is he to be trusted? That remains to be seen.

Thanks,
Dario J.

Hi guys,

here is another update. I think I am overdoing it here a bit but I can't help it as I am having so much fun with this challenge.

While thinking about my final image I said to myself why not create some action poses and attacks for Mr.Blue. Essentially he has three attacks. Electrocute - short range attack which targets one enemy. Thunder Struck is long range attack, quite slow but very effective. And finally Shock Wave is short range attack which targets multiple enemies. Also I designed Fox Gangsters while I was at it.

Below you can see visual representation of those attacks.

Feel free to let me know what you guys think.

@yazziixx, thank you! Bioshock is awesome!
Thank you @tbrk, glad you like it.

Cheers,
Dario J.

Hi guys!

I am back with a new update. I finally started working on final image. My thought process for this one was that I wanted something bright and happy but in contrast with it I wanted to portray not so happy action scene. It's utopia where rabbits live but underneath the surface something is rotten to the core.

I am uploading composition sketch I did few days ago and colour progress so far. I am still far from completing it but wanted to share.

If you have any thoughts or feedback feel free to share.

Thank you @juliapires.jp98 and @nesokaiyoh!

Cheers,
Dario J.