So this is a bit of lore, but the cracks are decorative and they are added to the armour as accolades (this is a tradition in his family specifically). It’s meant to show off hardships/overcome difficulties.

So Eggs is relatively new to his position so his armor is minorly cracked. The higher the position in rank the better the decoration, for example, the cracks can be inlaid with gold (which ends up looking a little like runny yolk). This was an idea that I was playing around with anyways.

I have a pilot written and rigs built for animation, but engagement is super low, so I’m gunna probably go back to writing the comic. It’s my fault for dropping the ball, I’ve just been really depressed and the comic is such a large undertaking. But I don’t want to give up on the project either.

I am not really good at character design, I would not say it’s one of my strong suits. But the advice I can give that I used for myself while redesigning my comic is to put your characters in grey scale to check the tones. For example, Eggs here went some colour changes to create more visual interest/contrast. But sometimes you don’t see the values until you put the design in greyscale.

The other thing I can say is about the colour identity of the character. When I was redesigning my characters I wanted to give them one colour that would represent them. Sometimes colours can be used to indicate the relationship between characters, or have deeper meaning in regards to their status (Think like how royalty would wear deep hues or purples). My main character wears blue in contrast to the warmer colours because she is meant to stand out, while still having red/gold elements to tie her to the other main characters.

Or everyone is coloured like food and I didn’t put any thought into it.