A concept for a helmet drawn around a character sketch provided by /u/-MISCHA- on reddit. She gave me permission to edit the image as I pleased and I decided to go to the extreme of using it to flesh out a helmet concept. After a month or so of fiddling with colors, shading, detailing, and even subtly tweaking proportions, I finally have this reasonably finished.

I would like to eventually expand upon it first into a bust portrait, then into a waist-up, though I'm not sure I want to go to a full-body image due to how much proportion and posing work I would have to do wholly from scratch.