michael's shiva design

at long last, this is the shiva chara design *MichaelBeckett did for me for my novel(la) Unfamiliar Ceilings. at first, i didn't like the way this one was turning out, so i had to leave it alone for a while, but tonight i came back to it, and it behaved for me. i always like it when michael does character designs for me. i have a hard time picturing my charas as actual people. to me, they're just collections of words and emotional problems.

lineart/character design (c) *MichaelBeckett
character/coloring (c) my only self.

edit i guess i should say before somebody points it out and i have to get annoyed for no reason, i left the pupils out on purpose. gods should always have weird eyes, so shiva has no pupils. oh and also, the background? yeah, i have no clue what's up w/ THAT. i guess Heaven, Earth, and The Space Inbetween.