Ahh thank you! Yeah I want to push myself into not just settling for what comes to mind first, and ending up with a solid design that reflects both the story and aspirations of the character. I'm excited as to where it's going!
Here's that updated character sheet which I'll do colours for later. Definitely think this is a step up from his previous design and I'll work on incorporating more of the fire and lava too. Again this isn't the start of the final piece, I am planning on starting the final piece next week. But design wise I think he's pretty finalised
Finished colour palette and final design. Gonna start the final illustration thumbs next but probably will spend a few days doing lava, wing and fire painted studies before I move on though. I draw fire a lot but I don't paint it very often, and when I do it doesn't tend to look how I want it to so I want to get a good bit of practice and experience first. Same with lava, never painted it before either. Wanted to say too that the lava redness featured on the previous full coloured design will be present on this design, I just didn't include any lava this time around
Here's a closeup! 
OMG this is so good! Your lineart and colours are so expressive 
I can't believe I didn't check out your entry until now. Really beautiful design! I also happen to be a sucker for warm tones and fiery themes, this is some great eye candy to behold. I like how the contrast leads the eye to the center of the design.
My only concern is in your final illustration making sure that the character reads clearly. In the most recent image of the full concept (I understand it's just a concept sheet and not the final illustration) I find it slightly difficult to make out the facial features, just because of the molten lava oozing down the face obscures its readability. I worry the design may be a little overcrowded in a few places?
To be quite blunt it is a nice illustration of your design but as a reference sheet/character design sheet it's a little hard to read or see where everything is, if that makes sense? For such a complex design I feel it deserves full on front and back view concepts. But that's not really relevant this time around because they are only going to be looking at the final illustrations.
All in all a wonderful and red hot design, keep up the great work! 
(also don't forget we gotta clearly incorporate the emblem in the design somewhere, if it is in there and I just didn't see it, my bad!)
This is turning out stunning! The colours and fire/magma effects are gorgeous.
This is definitely an amazing draw to express the mood and the colours. I can really feel the story of your character !
I may have the same concerns than obsidiante about the readability of your character in "real" situation but it will certainly depend of your composition.
(You like angels like character don't you ?)
Thank you everyone for the kind words! I didn't expect feedback like this so I'm both really happy with my work and that you all like him!
Omg thank you so much for the compliments and feedback! I agree with you wholeheartedly, and I share the same concerns. What I'll probably do is that because the character is so big anyway (like mountain big) it's It's likely we'll only see part of him in the final piece anyway. His wings are certainly far too big to have on the whole page, and I'll really only focus on the torso up! I struggled a little with the skin tone and making it blend seemlessly whilst also having it stand out, but I also do agree with the lava running down his face. In the final I'll make it simpler, and probably not have the glow from underneath his helmet.
Reference sheet wise you are also right, I only intended for it originally to be a simple flat tone sheet with no detail or painting. I either got too ahead of myself or just had too much fun rendering it. I do have the original file though so I'll release a flat colour and no paint version too, and that should help with readability! I have plenty of time so I might honestly do the back and side sheets too, and I'd like more indepth closeups of what his crest looks like, and maybe even some mood sheets and how that reflects on him! The emblem I was planning to have on the front of the crest but in this case I totally forgot lol I think I might put it somewhere else though like maybe the sword... Hmm..
Thank you so much for this feedback, I will work on what you'd said and improve him
First of all yes, yes angels are absolutely my jam lmao I'm not religious so it's more just for the fact they're super duper cool looking dudes.
Yes I do also agree, I always go a little too far on details so I'll try tone it down for the final. I want to work on atmosphere and scale for my final piece anyway so I've planned not to even use most of his body
(Oh and, can anyone tell me how to reply to multiple responses at once? Unless I'm just dumb I can' seem to figure it out lmao)
I don't think you can replay to multiple post in the same time but you can tag multiple people on the same post.
omg I feel so dumb thank you I didn't realise I could tag people
Wow! This is epic!!! Amazing work so far!!! Can't wait to see more!
Working on commissions today so I didn't get any work done for Phaedrus, but I did revisit the full body of him and took away all the painting basically and made it flat shading so I can show the design and colours off better! Any feedback is welcome! I'm thinking of making his floaty drapery more red to purple in tone as I don't like the pale fleshy kinda colour and I want to make it richer in colour. I did mess around with some but I wasn't really happy with much. I did maker it lighter with these flats though as I felt the value with conflicting and wanted to make it read better. Any suggestions? 
I almost like this simpler version better, he looks so elegant and clear. I love how the drapery looks like billowing smoke, its so cool!
Thanks! Yeah I tweaked a few of the colours and values so they purposefully read better and it is clearer too. I want to find this balance when i come to doing the final piece, so it's likely some individual elements will change (such as the colour of the rocks for example)
Well it's awesome so far and I can't wait to see the final!
