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I was tempted to wait until I actually finished this, but it's been a long time since I submitted anything, so I said, "why not" and here it is.

This is my first attempt to redesign one of my OCs battle armor. I went for a relatively heavy Greek influence to start with, and I'll go from there to improve it. I love the more celtic/scandanavian style for elves, but at the same time, I feel like I'm rehashing Lord of the Rings, so I wanted to start with a different part of the world as my initial inspiration and then add in the more "elvish" patterns later as the inspiration hits.

I also wanted her armor to be practical but still feminine. This is intended to be a only character portrait for some quick practice to get me back into drawing again.
I tried a slightly different approach from how I normally draw digitally to try to improve the color blending. Let me know what you think.

Her story is pretty complex, but long story short, she's representing her kind as an envoy along with other envoys from other regions to gain support from the realm for the oncoming war. She was my first OC, so I have a soft spot for her.

EDIT: still toying with this. I changed her helmet. Just a quick change, so not a lot of detail.

Description
I was tempted to wait until I actually finished this, but it's been a long time since I submitted anything, so I said, "why not" and here it is.

This is my first attempt to redesign one of my OCs battle armor. I went for a relatively heavy Greek influence to start with, and I'll go from there to improve it. I love the more celtic/scandanavian style for elves, but at the same time, I feel like I'm rehashing Lord of the Rings, so I wanted to start with a different part of the world as my initial inspiration and then add in the more "elvish" patterns later as the inspiration hits.

I also wanted her armor to be practical but still feminine. This is intended to be a only character portrait for some quick practice to get me back into drawing again.
I tried a slightly different approach from how I normally draw digitally to try to improve the color blending. Let me know what you think.

Her story is pretty complex, but long story short, she's representing her kind as an envoy along with other envoys from other regions to gain support from the realm for the oncoming war. She was my first OC, so I have a soft spot for her.

EDIT: still toying with this. I changed her helmet. Just a quick change, so not a lot of detail.