Traditinoal Art: Boss Pt.3 (or, The dreaded Varuna)

So, while drawing, my teacher brought something to my attention that rather hurt my process. He saw the silhouette to my character's head, and found a character from the Shin Megami Tensei Persona series that had a head that looked particularly similar.

this asshole. 

So, Understanding that I can't just go ahead an continue using my head design, I went back to the drawing board and re-did the head from scratch, creating several different ornate heads that my teacher could look over and approve of. 

After a little while, taking the heads and re-drawing them, Jason (my teacher) came around one last time to give me the go ahead with the the last one as my best one. After that, it was on to the render. (Just to be clear, I posted my exploration page before, which showed the revised design- but I still felt this was a good post to make, to serve as a good guide for dealing with the problem of similar designs.)