Yesterday's progress on the new piece. Played with color choices and decided gold figure against a muted purple background. So here you see a quick color rough, laying in a nice warm red-gold dark over her armor, and then starting the render of the armor.
Step one is a rough sketch just to get the major design elements in. Real rough at this stage. Started with some digital watercolor blobs just to loosely describe forms, then line to pick out some of the features and create the figure.