Riot/Polycount Art Competition - Arcade Nocturne

Decided to give this competition a go! I love the aesthetic of League of Legends and just recently finally had a chance to try out the game, so why not? Choosing Nocturne as my subject champion - haven't had a chance to play him yet but he seems awesome. I love the arcade skins especially, which is a completely different aesthetic from what I normally do for character art, so thought it would be a fun challenge.

I noticed that the other existing arcade skins tend to be inspired by elements from specific games/themes, so for my idea here I'm going for a look inspired by a mashup of Tron/Daft Punk aesthetic, the Rocketeer, and a bit of the Pac Man ghost. Having an interesting time with the color palette so will see how that evolves, but overall I'm just having fun doing something different!

Will keep updating this post as I go and also link my WIP threads on the Polycount forum - I'm going to try and do both an entry for the Illustration and Character Art categories with this guy!

10/28 first sketches of ideas. Hope to hone in on a more final design soon so I can get cracking! There are elements of all of these that I like.