First time making one of these guys. I've always liked them, but have never tried my hand at drawing one.

If you don't know anything about the Predator series, the basic overview is: They're an advanced alien species who's culture holds a huge focus on physical combat and hunting. Many young individuals train for years in the arts of silently stalking prey, and that of the skills necessary to take it down single handedly.
They sometimes secretly come to Earth and other planets, giving the hopeful young warriors tasks through which to prove themselves worthy of the title of a full Hunter. These tests usually involve killing several warriors (such as armed gang members, soldiers, and other combat ready foes) or perhaps a single highly dangerous predatory species, such as the Xenomorphs from the "ALIEN" series. They only kill things that could potentially kill them, wanting nothing less than a challenge, and they often take trophies from their kills, be it a skull, spine, or other iconic memento of their kill.
They are armed with a vast array of bladed weapons, but use a few more technologically based devices such as an advanced cloaking field which bends light around their body to render them nigh invisible, first aid medical devices, targeting, tracking, and pan-spectral visual arrays in their visor, and usually a shoulder mounted energy weapon as a backup. Though if worse comes to worst, they are equipped with an arm mounted bomb which can be detonated at different set magnitudes with the purpose of destroying all traces of the Predator and the technology he bears, as to keep such knowledge out of the hands of the younger species.

PREDATOR © 20th Century Fox

Art © VanZemer