Here is my submission, its the same one I submitted for help on the lesson notes but it was received very well on my Facebook maybe this is the start of my own style. I was planning on developing it more and if I have time when I get home I will I thought the deadline was a fair bit later. This is my biblically accurate mech design the human body is a vessel for the angel attached by wires from the eyes the angel can modify the human, I was going for existential dread and some kind of cyberbiblical dystopian world a battle between heaven and cybernetic body enhancements I suppose :). The angel can move the body around like a puppet so to speak and as such they can move in tandem or separately. Good luck to you all I've seen some amazing designs and I've learnt a valuable lesson in time keeping and that's to actually keep time no boring details but a lot as happened recently so I am gutted I didn't have as much time for this as I wanted but alas it was just for fun and perhaps to interact with some nice people here which so far has been pleasant.

a simple musing, I hope it gets some response

OK, here are some quick and very quick sketches to get started

Before I actually start painting, here is my concept for a gel droid. The idea is that an amorphous gel with millions of carbon fiber nano bots in it can be programmed to make it's skeleton into any shape. The machine parts build air-tight floatation chambers around themselves to focus on movement, rather than holding itself upright. Tendrils connected to the surface of the gel maintain shape, and deliver air pressure for the floats, when needed. I'm still unsure about the shape, and may consider zooming out the composition to get a more unique profile. I was also considering just playing with opacity of layers in photoshop for the translucence effect, but now leaning towards straight up using opaque brush strokes throughout.

Just a weird idea for this, let me know what you guys think.

Not sure if this is odd enough. Any advice is welcome ofcourse

Normally I wouldn't post anything so early on but I'm super excited about this design. This is just a rough expressionistic mock up but any feedback on composition pose or anything would be useful before I get to deep into the piece. I'm thinking the back "wing" might need some adjustment. Anyway thank you in advance if anyone interacts with this :)

Gave it a try. Actually 2. Let me know which one looks more odd to you )

what's the criteria for a final submission. Are you allowed to post more than one design or is it only one file per candidate. I'm really excited to have something to work towards and have already stormed up a couple of preliminaries.