rough draft suit. all the details so far in my head. )

Work on clothes began with a belt.

bit of face sculpt

I spent most of my time building scenes and poses. it was a very long way and maybe it is not finished yet, but it is necessary to move on to creating the character himself.
in short, with what I started and in what way I came to the "final" idea:

The initial idea was relatively simple - a samurai girl beats a fireball with a katana, while at the same time creating an ice spike from the water for a retaliatory strike.

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To give more tragedy, I put it on one knee and sent a blow from above.

Further, I got the idea that she is not just defending herself from a blow, but saving another character.
In the first version, it was a girl who might have stumbled and ended up on the path of the fireball.

Unfortunately, it didn’t look so good as it seemed initially and I replaced the girl with a boy.

In my opinion it began to look better, but no matter how you change the pose, the boy is dangerously close to the ice spike.
Therefore, I had to take a small step back to the original pose, when she was still standing on both legs, but abandon the idea with an ice spike, replacing it with a shield of ice.

I can’t say that this pose is final, but in the future I will work with this

Put the samurai in a pose.
In the process I tried to bring to the ideal. )

Rethought the concept and painted in more detail

There is still too much to do