Your background being the same as your light color isn't helping. At least give it a visible silhouette by changing your background. You could even use the background to add detail that might not be appropriate o the character itself, leaving the character to be mostly a mysterious black silhouette while interesting dusk colors and clouds or lightning occur behind him (maybe these elements could even create interesting rim lighting).

Alternatively you could show more of the face than is in your picture. Many other concept pieces from my google search show more facial features visible. Or you could do glass with a limited amount of facial visibility.

This character's main neon light color is yellow. Not sure why you've changed it to blue, but unless there's a good reason I'd stick to the character color and tweak it slightly for your purposes.

Also this character has an unfortunate light design on their chin that detracts from being able to see their jaw line accurately. I'd suggest working on different jaw lines that might look more EPIC!!!!!! If you're limiting what you show to this degree you need to make what you show count for a lot.



^ some elements that make this image successful: good silhouette vs background light, attractive stylization, an exciting moment in time, slightly tweaked iconic yellow character color, cool flowy hair and cape, more interesting light tattoos on body, decent suggested anatomy, intense eyes, sexy people.

Now you may not want to put all these elements into your piece, but hopefully some can be useful to you.

Edited by Iscalio - 29 January 2015 at 5:01pm