Swiftwrath 3/4 with Tones

Here is a 3/4 view of my Swiftwrath design with grey tones.  I am having a lot of trouble picking colors -- either I go for naturalistic colors and it looks plain, or I go for more crazy colors and it looks like it is an airship crewed entirely by clowns.  Also I'm worrying that the railing and lack of details make the scale confusing -- if this ship is supposed to hold up to 200 people I think it should have more details, ropes hanging off of it, stuff like that.

For now anyway, I'm going to put this in my portfolio.  I am still happy with my ideation process; I like the shapes I went with and I am happy with how the orthographic came out.

Swiftwrath Silhouettes, Breakdowns and Orthographic

I tried a lot of ideation to get a silhouette for the airship of the heroes.  I eventually came across a body type I kind of liked (row three, column three) and then did a few different sail configurations based on that (column four, rows two and three)

I did a bunch of black and white breakdowns to refine the silhouette.  I wanted some clean, swirly art nouveau designs.

Once I found a shape I liked, I did an orthographic of the Swiftwrath in Photoshop to get nice clean lines.  I'm sure there are some minor errors/inconsistencies but I'm pretty happy with how it came out considering it was the first vehicle orthographic I've done.

I'm working on a 3/4 view of the ship that I would like to render out with some shading, maybe even color.  Keep an eye out for that!