Referencing.

Here we have some visual referencing for the Recluse' design. 

He looks a little... dead.

Ive based the general skeleton of the Recluse on a dinosaur, something big and sturdy and used to carrying a load of weight. Its not entirely done yet, many a layer is still to attach.

The Recluse takes form

The Recluse

The Recluse is a wandere, a loner, a rogue. He travels alone in the desert, far away from any kind of society. The Recluse is an albino and has to carry around a cover to protect him from the sun, the price of pricvacy. hes been wandering the desert for so long now that the weight of his quarry has molded to his arms and supports a small eco-system of fire nation creatures, mostly desert insects and small reptiles. The Recluse wont allow anything big enough to bother him on. It eats mostly cacti, saving long strands of it to adorn its shell for camoflouge and to keep flying insects off its torso, much like the hats they wear in australia.

Introducing the fire nation!

Ive decided to do the fire nation of the gloaming, why? mainly because they were my favourite nation in the cartoon Avatar. Im looking at going into the desert and basing elemrnts of my character around the difficulty of surviving in extreme conditions. The creature has harvested what it can and eats what it can and shields itself from the sun, a nomad. a cool element that popped up was the fact that he has to lug this huge slab of rock around with him to ward off the sun, an idea derived from desert creatures (insects mostly) habit of hiding under rocks and having carapace slabs over them naturally.