Originally intended as a bust sculpt but I went ahead sculpting the torso. Simple viewport render with vertex painting on top of matcap.
Inspired by this Capcom art:
Some pics of the process:
First I sculpted this head.
Attached the head to a torso basemesh and more sculpting.
I learned a lot doing this project in 2.8. I don’t think I will be coming back to 2.79 