Cyberwarrior Artwork

The artwork i did last summer, will help me save time hopefully on concept work as to me it feels more complete, but i do need to get critiqued. 

I probably shouldn't have erased the artwork underneath as im working more as a painter rather than a concepter by drawing over what has been done previously. This is the stage of the character that the player would control, as this is the protagonist has regained his first weapon. Initially, this character was just going to have an amputated arm before he went into space, but it wouldn't have made any sense at all due to horseback and swordplay era. I was trying to capture the sense that he had been rebuilt with having bandage around him, and showing that he is stronger than others by wielding and oversized blade in one hand.

From his attire as well, i wanted to get across that he is honourable, similar to a Japanese samurai. The image of the spine is showing the detail of what the communication devices look like. They also are armoured to protect the spine from being severed or ripped out with ease. The main problem i feel with this is that it feel like there is a bit too much detail to be captured successfully in 3D which is why i wanted to get the work critiqued. 

I had a pretty set idea what i wanted the arm to be like, but my initial idea was not about harnessing plasma, but about being extremely powerful through impact. The first idea was about just having an amputated arm, which was over powerful, similar to bionic commando without the grappling hook abilities. This idea seemed boring though and overused in games and films already. Then i had the idea of having an attacked retractable blade, making him more of an assassin, but from his build it doesn't work because that isn't in his full frontal personality.

The plasma idea, actually came about from a dream i had, when a man in white, wielding this blue plasma energy, came from the horizons and whipped out all evil upon the earth with a single blow. Sound very like Gandalf from LotR. The idea i had for this though was more based around moving parts creating kinetic energy that powered the plasma energy, so that it never runs out. 

I had another idea of making the armour more royal, which makes him seem as if he is higher ranked within the army. The design looks good i thing because there are many interesting elements within it, but i did spend too much time on it which is very very bad.