Character Design

After taking that body shape into photoshop i widened the legs and experimented with armour and tattoos.

I didn't like the bracers, but the shoulder pads definitely  made him look more evil and added to his huge body. The image below shows the final design i will be going for, the view from behind was a quick flip and re shade so it looks bad, but it shows the idea that i wanted a tattoo to be "carved" into his back.

Here is another idea i played with of taking him into the future to an almost Mad Max style universe. The bionic eye and arm are things i haven't decided on yet, and i'm tempted to put the eye in on its own.

This last image is experimentation with weapons. And i have decided to go with a huge war axe. In  my mind an axe is just far more brutal than a sword and suits the theme of an antagonist barbarian far more.