The lovely folks at Hi Rez approached me last year about doing some possible skins for Smite. When they told me it was Pele, I jumped at the chance. Sadly, my schedule never quite worked out to have the time to do more skins, but it'd be something I'd love to do more of if I go back to freelance at any time. I really enjoyed the process for this, even if my own armor designs drove me nuts in the turnaround. I'm sorry to the character artist who got lumped with them.
I really loved the suggestion of playing with dragon opals as a colour scheme, and I love how the colours turned out in this.
My thanks to John Bridges for all his guidance during this!
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