Quick Kai'Sa Redesign Concept

I had to make a quick (emphasis on the word quick because, as you can see, it's very rough) little redesign concept of Kai'Sa but that's as far as I'm going to go! (I say that now but I know my budding game art & design mind doesn't obey me...) Sorry for dropping this little essay on you guy's foreheads in advance!

https://imgur.com/gallery/SL18N

Ok, so, as you can see, I retained her curvaceous figure and her human face and shit but I made the sybiotic suit thingy a bit more flesh like than the sci-fi power suit design that she currently has. I made the suit have muscle fiber like parts and the other parts are bio armor plating/padding. Let's go into further detail.

I made the overall color palette a mixture of greyish purples, blues and a little bit of teal or aqua. I made the padding darker than the more fleshy parts because armoring or padding like parts that animals that have such things are usually darker than the soft tissue that it's supposed to protect. I made the padding on the joints raised a bit and gave them a sharp edge for increased offensive potential; the type she'd probably need in the void if or when enemies got too close. I kept the luminescent designs she already has because that's cool but added a little bit more like on her chest which leads mean to this change: I covered up her cleavage.

Like, that design choice is so cheesy and typical, especially when a couple other champs have the same properties which, by the way, actually makes sense to the type of characters they are. Quite frankly, Kai'Sa isn't like any of those other characters; quite the opposite really. She is a badass woman who managed to survive in supposedly the worst place possible in Runeterra since she was a kid by integrating the void into herself to become the apex predator of the dreadful realm but managed to maintain most of her humanity because she was that determined to survive. I would imagine she has absolutely no interest in her appearance as it would have zero effect or rather negative effect in a place such as the void because having your chest exposed is just asking for it to be impaled by a vorpal spike or something. The woman champs that do have their assets exposed actually have a reason for such a thing mostly for reeling in weak willed men so they can fuck them up but such a tactic makes no sense in the void. I would imagine just about the only thing that would go through her mind because of the enviroment she's basically grew up in would be good old fashioned survival so I believe her chest would be covered by some sort of sturdy armor or padding such as that void flesh that's on her body tò protect the very important vital that's located in that area. ehem to say least, I had the suit go all the way up to her neck and a little bit on her face to further sell the idea that's basically a part of her body.

Now then, lets move the final part of the design that I changed: her face. Simply put, her face would not look like she is running for miss universe which is exactly how it looks like as of now. She has been in the void for years and not only that but she has a fucking creature of the void or something connected to her vitals and such and on top of that i'm sure she didn't get the suit right away so I don't believe saying that the suit prevented her physical appearance from changing is a justified anwser; you cannot tell me she should look like the way that she does right now. Literally there are instances in the lore of people having far less interaction with the void and now look like they've been kissed by Satan himself; this fact creates too much contrast with the current design of our new gal. I made it to where her skin is a bit pale, gave her a discoloration of her lips, a battle scar or two on her face and gave her purple glowing eyes as a greater sign that void energy is indeed coursing through her body but in a way that's mostly enhancing than corroding her. I've omitted the third eye that I gave her on an earlier thread where I did a slight edit of the splash art because, quoted by fellow board member Valaran Nara, "The third eye suggests that she doesn't have her own mind and that she is fully possessed. She's not turned mentally, so she shouldn't have the glow on the forehead.". If i'm not mistaken, she is her own person and not a puppet to the void, therefore, the third eye is indeed invalid for her design.

To wrap this up, I made her look like she is more void like because it better conveys that, yeah, she was effected by the void like the others that have had interaction with it and, sure, she adapted to it because she had to for survival but she is still human; the void might of changed her in body but not too much in spirit. I believe that is all that I have to say about this really. Sorry again for writing a fucking essay in the boards here but I had to get this off my chest. Like, i have a little over a year in game art and design under my belt and I feel like i would have done a better job to bring the conept of this character to life than the pros at Riot. I'm outty for now.