#i gotta say @ru i don't understand the hype behind your man. good on you for getting shit figured out i guess though

[schmafs]

gods planetarium

(design notes under readmore)

hi so i’ve been trying to figure out this asshole’s design since april. he is by far the most difficult to design character i’ve made thus far, and i guess that tracks since he’s god. it’s what he deserves. what was particularly tricky was figuring out how to maintain the general feel of a bird while also giving him multiple arms! i’ll elaborate on this in a little bit.

the basis of his design is centered around astronomical instruments. the leftmost part of his outfit is based off an astrolabe (you can see the little ticks and marks where you’d track things on a real astrolabe). the middle part is based off an alidade, another astronomical tool. this bit’s fun in that this design motif comes back when we look at my other oc, yunvei, who also has triangles in the same pattern but in less detail. for those of you who aren’t familiar with either of these two, bufraeva was split into multiple gods by his partner (love wins etc etc etc). yunvei is a part of a cycle of vessels that house these gods with the end goal of bringing bufraeva back (not that he knows that). lastly, we haveeee moon phases because why not

this has the other important part of his design: his hands! the big thing with bufraeva is he’s not supposed to have hands to begin with. he’s actually meant to have wings, which he basically mutilates every now and then to look like arms (i’m on my hands and knees please get help instead of doing this shit it ain’t worth it). so! a big part of the issues with his design arose when i tried figuring out how on earth to incorporate his arms in a way that makes sense if he were to have them as wings like he’s supposed to. i managed this by showing a few variations of his arms, meant to be at different stages in his wing/hand process (left = hasn’t done anything recently, right = recently armed). the longer he waits the more black webbing and feathers crops up on his skin. also this is a smaller detail that’s hard to see here BUT his pants tie on the sides since i mean.. he wouldn’t be able to put on people pants.

the last bit of his design is hard to see given that he’s in profile here, but from the front, his crown thing looks like it overlaps and it has a fair deal more of astronomical stuff on it.

anyway. boofy raeva our friend(????????????). og comic is by mysillycomics: