Dwarf Warrior Princess - Character Concept

A personal project I've been working on the past week or so. I've had an old sketch of a dwarf female lying around for quite a while so I thought why not refine it and do something with it.

Final Design fully rendered. See the whole process below!

Initial sketches, trying to find interesting shapes. The first one was already my favourite, but I kept trecking on in case I discovered anything even more interesting along the way.

Tried going for a more quick, silhouette-like concept for these ones.

The first one won in the elimination process, so I made a more clean and refined lineart version. I also added a shield to the design aswell.

Here I'm trying to figure out the color palettes. Ended up with a mix of the 2nd and the 3rd.