Concept / Inspiration

The main idea of this personal project of mine was to create an illustration of a futuristic warlord. I was inspired partly by Metal Gear Solid art, namely Raiden's design and especially for the pose in one of Yoji Shinkawa's depictions of Raiden, and I wanted to create an elite futuristic warlord with elegance about him, combining styles from the new and the old. As far as the concept design, I only had a general idea in my head but I designed it on the go within Zbrush. In other words I used no 2D concept but just designed the character in 3D as I modelled it, free-form.