head silhouette variations

I decided to do some more close up silhouettes of the head to use to get an idea of the general aesthetic of the archer.

I wanted to try and not get caught up on necessarily making the archer look 'good' just because the subject was a holy virtue. The first design that stands out from the rest as looking very different, I was just playing around with the idea of having a different face, rather than the hood, I thought maybe it would have some kind of skull face with one of the eyes caved in or obscured. I didn't linger around that for long because I didn't like how it looked and thought the subtlety of the design was lost. After deciding that I didn't like that direction I took it back to where I was before and started to just play around with the hood a bit, the shape and the way it hangs. From 2-4 it kind of just looks like I was just flipping the same hood into different positions but I kind of had individual reasons for each. The first one (2) looks kind of like the hood of a executioner archetype, the second is a little more demonic looking and I thought at that stage that it was starting to look a little to evil so I took it back. In the third stage (4) I thought it might look more sleek and archer-like with the hood pressed forward, it also kind of reminds me of a robin hood hat, which works.
The last two I don't quite like, 5 looks far too 'witch' like and looks kind of evil so I didn't want to go with that, and while I kind of like 6 it looks kind of creepy with the large eye visible through the hole.

4 is definitely my favourite I think, and while it doesn't really look a lot different from what I already had it helped me to solidify and idea and a style and I can play with that now.

I sort of want to take the idea into zbrush now because I don't know if there is a lot left that I really can do in 2D without going into too much detail. Due to the nature of the design I am going to have to do lots of drapery practice in zbrush, although I may take the design into there and only work into it to the extent where I don't need to drapery to look 100% convincing just to draft out the general shape and then I can refine later.