This is the Rhythm Eater, a sort of space-demigod creature I designed. Using its two frontmost arms, which are technically its tongue, it can absorb "rhythm" from organisms and environments. Without rhythm, your sleep schedule will be all messed up, you will have trouble keeping track of time or forming habits, and worst of all, you won't be able to dance.
By keeping the beat with its two tongue-hands, it can use rhythm in any of the many other arms that exist in its mouth, two of which are currently reaching out. These are the arm of summer and the arm of winter. a single swipe of the arm of winter can kill a whole field of crops or freeze a lake. The arm of summer can summon drought, grow plants, and instantly give sunburns. The powers of these arms were not listed exhaustively.
By scraping its fingernail along the horn of night, the Rhythm Eater can expend rhythm to instantly summon the night. Plucking a petal from its flower eye has the opposite effect.
The Rhythm Eater teeters gracefully on its small legs, swinging its comparatively large arms in wide, sweeping motions. The two arms that do not come out of its mouth, which are colored green and red, do not seem to have bones or muscles in them, swinging freely as the beast moves, rattling like maracas.
Encounters with this creature are best avoided.
Here is an alternative early monster design, as well as some of the first sketches of the eventual design's head. While I enjoyed several things about this first monster design, such as its nose and emancipated chest, I found it to be discordant. I did not have a good idea of who this creature was or what its deal was.
Here is the sketch of the Rhythm Eater that I brought into illustrator to work over.
