#do you think emf helps him preen because i sure do
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dovalore · 16 days ago
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evbo meets a little friend!
alright you already know the drill, time for a yap session
his eyes are just rectangles (oblongs?) here since i wanted to incorporate that specific aspect of evbo's skin into the design. it also kinda serves to make him look more... animalistic? he's a bird, so i really like this look for him
the song i listened to while designing him was to the sky
another inspiration i had for this design was meteion since she's probably one of my favourite designs in ffxiv
he's somewhat based off a conure/hummingbird! their colours are similar at least and hummingbirds have incredible control over their flight so yeah, that's him
but if you asked me to pick between those two for like, an actual bird form, he'd be a hummingbird. again, because they're super agile but this is what i imagine what he sounds like when he snores
related to that: all of his colours were made warmer on purpose, really colourful birds usually come from tropical regions so this was a way to reflect that a little bit
no boots, just netherite scales on his legs and hands (claw? talons?) because i thought it would be cool. so these things can't be taken off, they're part of his body
the knee pads can though, those pop on and off like magnets
he can't actually fly, but he can glide and it helps with adjusting the trajectory of his jumps and it negates the need for water bucket clutches if he times his wingbeats right (so i guess this makes it closer to an elytra? it might be interesting if he figured out how to use fireworks)
instead of having tail feathers coming off his body, i thought it would be a cooler visual to have his headband become his tail. so... that's' another thing he can't take off his body now!
the things he can take off are his hoodie and pants
pants are worn as usual, but the hoodie has a giant hole in the back for him to slip into so he doesn't have to pull things over his wings
speaking of his tail feathers, they're based off peacock feathers since he's kind of a show of lmao, the 'eyes' on them are a nod to him being the parkour god since i did something similar for acg's design with his head wing, evbo's markings are pretty much just that. markings, so he can't see through them or anything
not visible because it's being covered up, his chest is fluffy! i just think it would be cute and i'll take literally any excuse to add more fluff to a character because it brings me that much joy
also this is the first iteration i had of bird evbo's design, look at this little guy
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the green highlights were cool here, but they kinda just ended up blending in with the rest of his hoodie/body so i decided not to do that
i made him fuzzier in the full piece too because i can
his ears were changed to be wings since these ones were too similar to my previous evbo design
headband tail feathers have been part of the vision since the start, but these ones here were pretty much just slapped on without too much thought about what they actually look like
now i don't usually share unfinished work on its own but these two have been sitting in my drafts for weeks now so... here's another little guy!
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can you tell that i really enjoy making designs of him?
anyway, since summit evbo's still a draft at this point, i won't say much about him since he'll have his own post eventually
but i do want to say that i consider him and bird evbo as a duo of sorts since they're kinda opposites in terms of design
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