Beautiful interpretation!

I love Islamic inspired art <3

it's hinduist, not islamic, islam has no representations of god.

mm, that's what i meant. My mistake, sorry

While this is Hindhu, Islamic inspired art is also very beautiful. You weren't wrong there!

:) Either way, this is just beautiful.

Wow. Very creative. Good work

Beautiful work. And the scanner didn't mangle it too badly.

Is it weird that it makes me sad that this is a SKETCHBOOK commission? XD It's so mindblowing, it's sad that it has to have the crease and be closed up in a book rather than put up on a wall!

BEAUTIFUL! Lovely colouring, everything's so vibrant and rich!!

This is mind blowing.... and for looking like crap ... WHAT? This does not look like crap.
This is lovely... so amazing.

I love your real media! I actually like it more than your digital work. Don't give up!

Ooo wow beautiful image. The colors used and the scheme are very eye catching! Looks excellant! :)

It looks stunning despite the scanner mangling, I believe whoever has this in person is a very lucky one indeed.

Brilliant as ever <3

I'm guessing you did this on paper much larger than your scanner? If so, I know of an effective trick to get rid of that line down the middle. If you're interested, send me a note.

Also... I love your real media work!

Nope, it's in a small sketchbook. The crease is the center of the book. :>

Great interpretation of the third Avatar of Vishnu. I'm speechless. He's a deity that resonates with me...and your work is both respectful to the idea of Lord Varah and beautiful. I have my own in the works, going for the anthropomorphic form he's also been pictured in. I'm glad someone commissioned this art. It makes my day.

Thank you! I am glad you feel the art does proper respect.

Spectacular! The smooth color transitions and composition are really nicely executed. Great work here, I'm enjoying your interpretation of this myth!

First, it's NOT crap! Real Media is the way to go!! This looks amazing and if the scan isn't perfect, learn to ajust it to look like the original!!

I used to spend hours adjusting scans to look like the originals as part of my job. ;3

This is beautiful, simply beautiful.

This is incredible work!

Looks like something from discworld.

I hear I should read those books. :3

Yes you should. ;o;

And, I came in just to comment about discworldiness. So. Um.

Instead I'll just say, DAMN fine art.

Yes there are a lot of them. they are worth a look.

Narasimhadeva next please? (=

LOVE the various colors and the amount of detail. very nice :D

Very nice! I love how you portrayed the earth, it looks like a precious glass orb.

LOL, awesomesauce. I love the glowing bracelet around the front right arm and the adornments. Fun stuff! :)

Narashimhadeva please!!!!!!

Hard love for this art. <3

My word this is stunning!

Oh this is gorgeous! And you saved me from some research.
(My art concentration is Indian/Hindu art, especially of the gods and of the people.)

Gorgeous, really. : D

As per request, critique!

First of all, the marker rendering is absolutely stunning! I wish like crazy I was that talented with real media, especially something as unforgiving as markers.

But I'm really confused about what's happening to its back end. Is it.. flying through space..? Were you going for a "leaping out at the viewer" perspective? If so it's not working. The torso is almost the same size and shape as the head, just not as detailed. It's almost like a fuzzy cone-shaped hat. :s Perhaps make the shading under his chest/belly a little darker so it doesn't look as flat? Next time try to capture a little more movement in the animal's body. If this thing is flying through space, he should have a little more curve in his back instead of being so stiff, like he was shot out of a cannon. I know boars are pretty stocky and strong, but for sake of the image's flow, don't be afraid to bend the anatomy a little bit. It's an exciting scene! Let the character show it! :D

As far as the head, his eyes and fur are absolutely gorgeous! But the mouth is a little confusing. I'm not an expert on boars but don't they have more teeth than that? Also his bottom tusks seem unevenly placed, or perhaps the perspective on the closest one is skewed.

The background is just so beautiful and I like the transition between the lotuses and sky/sea, but that one random shell is... distracting. It's not really colored/shaded the same way as everything else so it's just kinda out there. With the way it's positioned it almost looks like it's stabbing him in the arm. D: I'm glad you didn't color his other hoof and let it be part of the water, otherwise the brown in the middle of all that blue would've been too distracting. It's like he's flowing into the sea, which works very well for this story.

Overall the coloring is BEAUTIFUL and you are extremely talented with markers, miss! The animal anatomy and perspective just needs a little more work. Really cool interpretation of this god, I love the story behind the image. :3

Thank you for saying it to my face, so to speak! At the risk of making excuses, I did draw this at a con with the intent of getting it complete there, so it was done very quickly with little reference and even less sleep. I usually try to be a stickler about animal anatomy because I love it so much and the quality of the initial line art suffered in my haste. Such is con sketchwork. Boars do have some more teethers, little pegs that i don't know would show in the upper jaw, and probably would show in the lower jaw that I tried to, belatedly, ink in.

Oh perspective. That is something I am battling right now with another piece (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=165465) and I think the issue of the back big too straight is still present. All I see with this boar is how long the body is and how the tail comes out of the wrong spot and ugh...I could go on and on. It really bugged me when I was coloring it so I did the best I could do with the markers. I got to use MAGENTA. I never get to use magenta!

The shell? I still like the concept, bad execution.Its supposed to be floating along with the avatar, but you are right, it's stabbing him. :C

Thank you again for taking the time to write a thoughtful critique. It's much appreciated here!

Oh man I have problems with perspective too. I know how hard it is to get something organic to look good at dynamic angles! /wrist In those cases just try to use that box/guideline method like in that link. It doesn't have to be perfect - as long as you get the idea across and it looks good, that's what matters.

Rush jobs happen, it's just part of the art business. I wish we could all spend as much time was we wanted to finish a piece but alas. D: But for the lack of sleep/incoming deadline I think you did pretty well. Real media is especially so difficult under those conditions ugh. I'm scared to death of real media so what you've managed to do is still so impressive. Me, I need ctrl-z lol. MAGENTA IS AWESOME BY THE WAY and I would use it all the time if I could. XD

I like the shell concept too - the idea of transitioning from a field of lotuses to a cosmic sea is really cool, and I see how you were trying to mesh the ideas of universe + ocean. But yeah the placement is what makes it distracting.

This is fabulous!

I still think this would look lovely framed.
It doesn't belong in your scraps.
:(

this is so beautifully different than anything I've ever seen. Amazing work and details you have here (:

I really love how it came out. There's just so much detail to look at. And I had no idea there was a boar avatar for a Hindu god. Thank you for bringing this information to light.

Wow. I mean just...wow