Just my mood board for the time being, sci-fi fantasy seems to be kind of wear my thoughts are going.

Just some thumbnails, exploring where I want to take this.

Update: so i'm still thinking about how i'm going to portray this, I really want to avoid going down an all fantasy look, may have to do more research, been busy with family holday stuff, Happy holidays everyone!

Update: so these 2 were the results of multiple thumbnails and I feel like i have a clearer idea of where I want to take this, using the raijin inspired drums with a robotic/alien like figure as a base.

Second batch of thumbs, im starting to figure out what kind of shapes i want to have going on and the kind of story i want to tell.

update: just trying to figure out what i want the final pose to be

8 days later

Ahhhhh so I got super inspired looking at old rennaisance paintings and want to have that kind of enregy going on (ignoring my blatant disregard of the golden ratio). The Photon Empress rises to inspire her followers to freedom from their distopia.

Now that is cool. How are you going to weave in the offense or defence?

Just doing some more rendering to see how the shapes read, design will be changed a lot, but at the moment i quite like the silhouette.