In the design of my character, I decided to emphasize his
steam-powered equipment by effacing or removing any other competing visual
element until they became nearly the only noticeable one. This went as far as
the removal of the character's face, leaving him essentially a display-case for
technology.
This last measure also represented the greatest challenge
from a creative-process standpoint, as eliminating a figure's face completely
must somehow be covered visually, in a way which would also make sense in that
character's storyline. Another challenge was designing a set of technological
devices which, although purely fictitious, would be logically believable.