After coming to a halt (again) with design, I produced these "final design" sheets, which - in hindsight - is just another version of the iterations that i'd already done. This was getting quite laborious, drawing the same thing three or four times over.

I spoke to my tutors again and carried on with my counselling, and we worked out that I either needed a break, or I needed some new inspiration. I was hesitant to look at Destiny's artwork, as it was already very close to what I wanted to produce (just more gothic and twisted). But my course mate Luan let me borrow his art book, and it certainly got the creative juices flowing again.