Warrior Concept

After being inspired by the shells I photographed at the museum, I decided to take some more pictures when I got home because I have some shell ornaments dotted around the house. These are a few of the photos I took.

And from these pictures I came up with this...

At first, I started out trying to make armour using the shell's harsh ridges because of the many interesting shapes going on. It would also be a good base to build up quite a unique and quirky concept, which swiftly leads me onto the other idea. Here I started to experiment with combining the shell structure to that of the spine. I got this idea after studying the shell in more detail. The spines and blunt edges look very similar to that of the human spine. I used this http://mississaugachiro.com/interactive_flash_spinal_nerve_chart.php as reference and to help me examine it in more depth.

As for the story, the spinal feature could be part of a tribal species or even some kind of infection because there's a scaly surface resembling the spread of a disease.