SciFi and Fantasy Art: Tremorworks: Ravana

Very well done! Must have taken quite some patience, all those arms, all with swords... *deep respect*
perhaps it would be good if the contrast of the scan was a little higher, to really make it black/white, that's about all the constructive critics I have.

i think this character is from the Ramayana right??? i read last semester in college, its a good story....this is just beyond cool. how did you get all the arms and head to fit anatomically correct??? the movement and the pose are perfect, and although i haven't seen the rest i'm betting they are just as good.... Yup, Ramayana sounds right. I was only reading snippets at the time I did the drawings; I still need to sit down and read my big book of Hindu mythology all the way through.

I just used the same planning process for this twenty-armed guy that I would for a two-armed guy - I plan the anatomical design with ball-and-sticks to show where the shoulder and arm bones go, then I flesh out the muscles one arm at a time. I broadened the chest cavity and the pelvic girdle a bit, too, to accomodate the extra mass of all those arms. The real trick was just fitting all of those arms and swords in such a compressed format!

Super amazing detail i love the different faces, and i cant believe you got all those arms in there, will you color this? Thank you very much.

I probably will not color the Tremorworks creatures due to the fact that as soon as I finished the black and white drawings, I received more commissions and requests that are going to keep me quite busy. Coloring Ravana or any of the other guys would be something I might do if I found some spare time hiding in the cushions of my couch.

I did a double take when I realized it was your work. I don't know why, but it feels so different from your usual work. Certainly a move in a progressive direction. I truely dig all the detail and movement! Aw, thanks.

Really this is just a move sideways; the fellow who commissioned the Tremorworks Demongate project wanted everything in black and white, so that provided me ample opportunity to practice my pen and ink technique. Now I can finally say that my inking style is halfway decent. I *still* prefer to work in color, so you can bet your talons that there will soon be more of my usual stuff.

I owuld hate to see hte bone struture on this one! lol. What to make of that skeleton. Millions of years ago.... Actually... The skeletal structure, at least in an abbreviated form, is where I began when I assembled this guy. I can only imagine what an anthropologist might think if this demigod's remains were found in some high cave in the Himalayan mountains!

You know, that might be a really fun idea to draw out... Cool; thanks!

absolutely mind blowing..
i m impressed with the way u have managed to make even the ten heads of Ravan as anatomically probable..
i have no words to tell u my wonder..
keep it up

This is awesome. Love those multi-armed hindu guys, but they are rarely depicted in dynamic poses, which you managed to do perfectly.

By the way, have you noticed his face(s) looks an awful lot like Tobias from Arrested Development?

Hey i too have joined the elfwood gallery i stand by my previous comments..This picture rocks!!

i love this! all the traditional paintings of ravana that ive seen have all ten heads in a straight line with no connection to his torso and i always found that weird...this is a much more feasible alternative

You should try drawing Lashkmi.

Rachael Mayo replies: "If that one comes up on the roster, certainly. These guys were done as part of a specific project list."