This is yet another character from my own little sci-fi world, and has always been known as 'Snake General', in lieu of a proper moniker. As you may have guessed, he's a leader of an army! I imagined an alien lizard race that had over millennia reduced the need for their back legs as their tail evolved to become more useful, hence the small, vestigial limbs by the waist. As for the feathers? Why the hell not. Some dinosaurs had feathers and couldn't fly, so I envisaged these for display purposes.
I dug out the original drawing with a view of simply popping it into photoshop and giving it a bit of colour, but I decided I wanted to give it a complete overhaul in illustrator and make a few additions and remove some bits that didn't make sense (see the robotic neck muscles of the original sketch!). I've gone back to it on and off for over a year, and it's finally finished.
I tried may different colour schemes, but I settled on one that's reminiscent of the garish colour schemes found on 90's action figures and toys such as Turtles, Toxic Crusaders and Mighty Max.
