Started out as a sketch which was put into backlog for a while; however I had been kicking the idea of a character like this since I was in HS. I had been listening to Angelspit's Blood, Death, and Ivory and saw the album cover, and my imagination ran wild (Destroyx's outfit was just *chefs kiss*). I decided to try something a little different with the crown-rather than a European influenced one, I looked to ancient Egypt. They had like 4 or 5 different goofy ass looking crowns through the ages, and thought it would be a fun little challenge to redesign one in a mini/hair piece style. I based it on my favorite one, the khephresh (aka the blue crown) which was popularly known as a wartime crown, even though that wasn't its only use. This mini one looks very different from a real khephresh, but hopefully the influence shows ^^ I tried out some other new things, like attempting to recreate an older film/video effect, and using a pencil brush for lineart instead of my usual pen.

I have a small story in my head that spawned from creating this character-I'm working on designing some characters for it, hopefully I'll finish and post some concept sketches in a week a or two-for now all I'll say is that this lady is the main villain, and her name is Juniia :>