SciFi and Fantasy Art: Yhwh

Is Yhwh the same thing as Yahweh, the alternate name for god to.... I think Jewish people? I hope so, it means your manga will be very interesting . Please draw more pencil works! They have this ethereal quality that, in my opinion, makes a nice contrast to your usual subject matter.

It's beautiful and very delicate. Love it!

You have a very keen sense for faces. This piece is incredibly delicate and yet completely evocative.

awww thats so sweeet! kinda warms you just lookin at it. (which you need after the succubi!) you do great detail with pencil, I envy you. I'd also like to know about it when your first issue comes out

Very simplistic, very well done, a lot of talent and foresight here, very definiative with a confident bold style. Note how saying lots of big words makes me sound educated in the ways of artistic endevours? Now for the real comment, what does YHWH mean?

Three things. That guy is HOOOT!!!!!!!!! And, he looks like Sephiroth, AND, this picture is AWSOME!

Interesting -- hope we get to see some more of it? Title pages are nice but I like some plot with the pretty! Ans in answer to the previous I would guess jhwh=jehovah, yawweh, the big guy, God etc.

Like several others I wonder what the word "yhwh" means in this picture. I would guess that you know well that "Yhwh" is indeed the English transliteration of the Hebrew name for God in the Bible -- it is pronounced "Yahweh" but written biblical Hebrew had no vowels. (In a typical English Bible translation, nearly every instance you see God referred to as "the Lord" is likely "Yhwh" in the original Hebrew. Jewish tradition forbade pronouncing the divine name, so they would say "Adonai" -- "the Lord" -- instead of "Yahweh." Our translations follow this tradition.) It interests me as to why the word appears on this picture. As for the picture itself, what I like about your art is that although you use the anime/manga style, you use more shading and detail than is typical in anime, and the result is that the drawing looks a lot more realistic than most anime -- and I like that!

I suppose not this is more realistic than Anime, it is more western by having a jewish background rather than the Japanese nonreligios shinto. Anyway Japan has no idea of what religion is. The artists use writing such as the one in the picture as sayings of magical power. (witness the samurai with jewish writing on the sword...japan never had any real contact with judaism and only bumped into christianity) why does a japanese girl wear an antihitler t-shirt when her own country never suffered conquest and commited cruelty in china? Please don't send this picture to square because this simply just be one more of the magical japanese pictures at a shrine. you are born shinto and you die buddhist, but there is no other religion in your life.

Actually, Yud Hay Vav Hay is short for the Lord's name. After the fall of the first temple, the actual name of the Lord has been lost. Jehovah's witnesses get it even further wrong by the romanising of both the Yud and the Vav.

As to the other David, he mistakes religion for monotheism. Just because other religions are different does not make them any less religious. Before Jacob Jews were pagans and before the second Ten Commandments Jews were Henotheists. If our culture was born in other roots who can dismiss other's long religious traditions so easily? If others did not dismiss Judaism so crassly could the Holocaust have even been possible? Why can't Japanese (or Germans for that matter) wear anti-Hitler shirts? The Germans and Japanese have every reason to despise Hitler and Tojo after what those leaders put their respective countries through. Confusing individuals for nations is what allows ultra-nationalists to commit extraordinary hate crimes. I am not equating David with Hitler. I am just saying that the hate he is spewing is no better than a neo-nazi punk except that because he and I share a common heritage it is all the more loathesome.

One last point about the samurai with Hebrew script; I have to point out (not sure why, given the forum) there is a difference between fantasy and history.

S.R. Braun replies: "wow, that was a nice comment. I my self am a nihilist, but I make sure to be well educated in the religions and cultures of others. And it is very true that allot of bad things come out of confusing the individual with a nation. A lot of people might have ideas about me that are not true due to where I reside ( although most might just make assumptions about my attire and over all attitude lol ) thanks for that thoughtful comment, it's rare to get many of those."