Ack, huge file size is huge.

I'm not quite sure what you changed about how you usually draw women, but whatever it is, I like it.

That, and you can't go wrong with Kali.

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Sorry about that - I uploaded right from the file I worked on and forgot that my instructor had us scan at 300dpi. It should be bearable now.


I don't know if anything changed. I just drew Kali. I tend to draw bigger women or more balanced looking ones more often, but my goddesses make me assume a whole different mind set. I do think I respond to her shape differently than I would to, say, Banshee or Sarah. I hadn't really seen it before you pointed it out. It's something to think about.

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There can never be too much Kali. This is fabulous -- I don't know whether to stare in adoration or to run away very very fast.

There's no religious category? Whack. I am thinking of making a collection for that sorta thing though.

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Yeah, no religion category. I try fantasy, but the sub categories are original characters, animal characters, sword and sorcery and something else that doesn't apply to goddesses. People seems inadequate. I feel kind of awful putting Kali or Sekhmet in 'other' or 'misc', but that's where they go. I want to propose a new category for them.

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Hmmm. Y'know, maybe it's buried under something unexpected.

For example, I did not know until you just said so that there is actually a category for original characters. And I know people who have been complaining about that very thing.

...or maybe they would just rather concentrate on the artistic medium than risk annoying the fundies. Who knows.

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I feel you on the no Religious category. There really should be one.

Anyway, your Kali is awesome. I love her skull necklace and the snake going down her leg. Perfect for a Death Goddess. Only thing that looks a bit odd is that the raised arm near her face seems a little thin compared to the other arms.

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Congratulations on prompting me to look up Hindu deities, but I have to say I'm not feeling the pink fuzzies on this. Are they symbolic flowers associated with Kali or something?

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I find that salmon color frequently in Hindu art, and one I used in a bit redder incarnation on the first picture of Kali I submitted here. The fuzzies are there just because those are seen frequently around the necks of the gods as well. I think super saturated red alone makes Kali look a little too cliche in the 'rawr, i'm scary' way, especially when there's an 'all mother' aspect to her.

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Yeah, that's true. It could be in 'sychedelic' or something crazy like that. I try to be logical about the whole category thing, but I rarely feel that the categories and I are operating on the same 'logic'.

The 'original characters' section should be under a lot of stuff, but there's definitely one under the 'fantasy' header.

I do worry that a religious section would spark wars as to which religion was the best, or that there would be attacks from people trolling the section for anything they didn't agree with, but I do feel like putting Kali in something like 'fanart' is a little blasphemous even if I'm not Hindu. This goes for Sekhmet and any of the others just as well. A mythology section could be just as nice. There's no loaded 'religious' word in there that way.

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