I'm open to suggestions on where to go with this. I can't much figure out what I made, so I don't know where to take it. Kinda resembles some sort of mecha-insect.
What's the propeller for? Maybe you want to start thinking what this thing does and in what environment it operates in, that should give you more clues about the "thing".
The material looks very 3d-ish, I think the lighting has to do with it. Since you didn't even apply shadows I wonder if this comment comes to early and you are just talking about the model.
I'm expecting there will be some shadowing as I'll need to put the rest of the environment in (to receive the shadows) and a light source to make the model cast one.
Not really sure what the propeller does, but I do have it envisioned as some sort of flying object.