'Secret Lair of an Insectoid Soldier' Post-OGR Thumbnails: 25 - 33

Fig. 1: Thumbnails 25 to 33.

These thumbnails focus more on the insectoid nature of the lair while also keeping a connection with ancient Egypt. At the moment I'm simply experimenting with different designs without thinking about the method at which the lair came to be, I have paraphrased the related parts of my reply to Phil on my OGR.

My insectoid soldier, Nemhisect could quite easily have spent years plotting his revenge and having once been a slave and then a skilled General, he'd be completely capable of carving out his own lair possibly from a pre-existing structure or excavating it himself. His reason for carving it is due to his resolve to serve the gods and the sacred nature of insects related to them. Further thumbnails will set this in stone.

All thumbnails apart from 29 and 32 were completed before our Photoshop lecturer, Jordan had provided feedback on my latest thumbnails. He truthfully stated that I need to watch my tonal values as my colour ranged from mid-grey to white rather than from black to white and demonstrated an example as to how I could achieve this by quickly painting over a duplicate of 33 (Fig. 2). 

Fig. 2: Comparison between 33 and Jordan's quick paint-over to show the importance of effective tonal values.

My thumbnailing method is currently to spend a time limit of 5 minutes on each before moving on to the next then eventually coming back to those for which I feel it necessary. All required information concerning the character profile / back story, visual concept as well as previous influence maps and thumbnails can be found on my OGR presentation: 
Secret Lairs OGR Presentation