After long time of duties, work and school I'm finally back and I can continue working.
I was playing with some ideas for composition but mainly I was trying to figure out pose my character will be depicted in. My goal is to show very fast warrior on feet and I also wanted to match the criteria of attacking or defending, but idea of running could be viewed as "he is running away from battle" and that's really not what i wanted my character to be I drew several sketches but I was never satisfied with feeling I got from them.
For a long time I kept comming back to that top design but I didnt like the vertical pose. In cropped version it was boring for my taste and in wide version I felt like focus is not so much on character. But i liked head and torso pose so I took it and spent day trying to come up with something and i think I got it. Bottom one is the pose I'm happy with so far but still didn't figure out background. My idea is forest to represent Slovakia nature but I want full focus on character so he doesn't blend with background that is dark as a forest. When I think of something I will be back