I wanted spartans to have a more futuristic look, on the subject of messy, its a simply greyscaled concept to get across the image of what it is, basic shapes, nothing too fancy and only took a grand total of 20 minutes.
I hated blocky spartans, they just never did it for me. Also I can not add much variation to the normal spartan armor as its been raped to hell and back by everyone else before I even got to this forum, so I have to make do with making something a little more new. Right now I am trying to keep the halo feel, while adding something completely new, trying to find inspiration on google.