Source of Inspiration
It took me a while to come up with something I wanted to present. I later found my inspiration with something so common around us everyday - the tables outside of Great Day Bakery.
I noticed how the details of the table, shown below, resembled eyes, and I started thinking about how I would create a character solely based around this concept. I thought that the design could also be used for armor or protection in some way, imagining a character that used this pattern or design as a shield or armor to protect them from attackers.
Sketches/Proof of Concept
Referring back to the concept of eyes, I immediately thought of a spider's multiple eyes, or a high-tech security camera or scanner from various science-fiction media. Going off of that idea, I created a design for a mechanized spider, with the design spread all around the spider's body. I even added a design for an electric web on the abdomen of the spider.
Character Background
My idea for this character is that the mechanized spider is a boss-type character that gains energy from siphoning electricity from anything it can put its fangs in. Being that it is a boss, and a mechanized creature at that, it is very big. I would say that the spider is about 15 to 20 feet in length. The grips on the legs violently grip to any surface it sticks to. The armor of the spider is very durable, however, the large amounts of energy the creature consumes leads it to have to expel some amounts of it, which is why there are holes on the back of the armor to expel excess energy. (That was a mouthful.) Despite the open gaps in the armor and grand size, the spider is still capable of moving at high speeds.
I wanted to go for a kind of industrial or early electric design with the drawing, and the fact that it is still durable, yet open in areas kind of reflects how a player can face a tough, yet not impossible, enemy to defeat.
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