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From Roger Zelazny's epic novel Lord of Light. Originally I was going to draw Yama with Ratri, as he was apologizing to her in his snakey snake way, but I became so enthralled with Yama himself that I decided Ratri would have to wait.

Zelazny's novel is like Hinduism meets sci-fi technology, where there is such a thing as demon repellant spray and where Heaven is a physical place and the gods can be banished from it.

Yama as pictured here is in the body we see him in towards the beginning, after he has fallen. He has a pale form as well but this was back when he was a bad guy and now his intentions are...questionable? It technically says he has dark hair, dark skin, supple fingers, and creepy long teeth, but I've always pictured him as Indian because of all this Hinduism going on. Both bodies share in mannerisms and in a taste for red and a habit of smoking. I'm definitely not done drawing him and I hope to get an action scene up sometime, perhaps with his paler form, but as of yet I have only really developed his Indian body.

Created entirely in Photoshop CS5.
14 Jan. 2013
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~theintrovert Jan 30, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
For some reason this brings to mind "the Last Airbender" (perhaps it was the indian fire nation that the film featured)
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~squonkhunter Jan 30, 2013  Student General Artist
Oh I didn't see the movie. I plan to avoid it like the plague.
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~theintrovert Jan 30, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
A companion of mine invited me to see it in 3D and I conceded to it since I'd never seen a 3D film before. The result was a nightmarish, two hour slog through a slough of mediocrity(CG effects that would not have looked out of place in 1993, horrendously bad acting and mispronunciation, ethnic chaos, etc).

My friend had major buyer's remorse after we vacated the cinema that evening. Thirty something skins down the drain.
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~squonkhunter Jan 31, 2013  Student General Artist
Ach...that sounds awful. At least you got to see it for free, though.
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~theintrovert Feb 1, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
I'll take you to see a terrible movie someday. Then we'll have something to rip on after the fact
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~squonkhunter Feb 4, 2013  Student General Artist
But zere are just so many of zem!
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*barmybritishbird Jan 15, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Brilliant. I love his expression and the book sounds fascinating
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~squonkhunter Jan 15, 2013  Student General Artist
THE BOOK IS INCREDIBLE check it out. It's a very quick read and there are a lot of intense conversations and amazingly cosmic kick ass incredible fight scenes. I'm actually extraordinarily surprised no one has yet adapted it to film.
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*barmybritishbird Jan 16, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I will.

Well you know films today - Nearly all sequels and remakes. No creativity!
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~squonkhunter Jan 17, 2013  Student General Artist
True. Every once in a while you'll get something that shines like a gem but they're certainly not the majority, nor the movies that make the most money, unfortunately.
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