.Deva Nagendra.

Completion Date: 02-19-10
Time Taken: 6 hours
Medium(s):
+ Bristol (Vellum)
+ 05 mechanical pencil
+ ZIG Millenium pens (Signature Only)
+ 01 Micron pen (Brown)
+ Prang colored pencils
+ Prismacolor colored pencils
+ Prismacolor markers (Purple, Mulberry, Carmine Red, Pink, Spanish Orange)
+ Copic marker (Dark Suntan)
+ Roseart gel pen (Gold)
+ Sharpie paint pen (White and Silver)
+ Lefranc & Bourgeois gouache paint (White)
+ Adjusted and watermark added in Photoshop CS2
Music:
+ Vocea - Varekai - Cirque du Soleil
+ Kalki - E.S. Posthumus

Comment:
"In the paradise of the Heavens, the goddess Izantis sat within the petals of her Mother Flower, contemplating. 'I wish to have a child.' she said, 'A child that will sing and dance like scattering petals on the wind." So the goddess poised herself and settled into deep meditation, willing her body to create a seed. Days passed, weeks passed, months, and years. Until one day finally her eyes opened and she folded her hands upon her lap, she took one breath, and pulled from her inner most heart, a tiny glowing seed.

The seed was placed in one of the many sacred pools, loving tucked into the murkiness blew to grow. And so it grew. Grew and grew until a large lotus blossom began to appear. The scent of the blossom was unlike any other, far different than the scent of Kishanti or Izantis herself. This strange scent reached far, so far that it called to a giant cobra. The snake traveled far, slithering across the Earth and Sky, creating rivers and grooves in its wake. Finally did the serpent reach the Paradise, coiling himself tightly around the growing flower of the Goddess's child.

She did not drive the creature away, knowing that it had come to protect the flower and that also it was drawn by the scent. So the snake remained until one day the blossom bloomed. Bursting forth in a flurry of joyous singing and dancing came her son. His skin dark and rich like the mud the flower took root in with a mane as wild and white as the lotus he sprang from. His many arms gestured in heavenly signs, forming beautifully about him, a leonine tail lashing at his back like a vine. However, the most noticeable feature of the new god was his small bound waist, the place where the snake had wrapped about the blossom.

'Mother Devi, Mother Devi! I am your son! Your son whom needs a name.' he sang. The goddess smiled, reaching out to her child and taking one of his hands, 'I shall call you Nagendra, Lord of Snakes.' His face illuminated with pure joy as he returned to his blossom and began to dance. The snake that coiled about it lifted himself up, splaying his hood as he swayed and sang with his charge. It was thus that the God of the Lotus Snake was born."

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Meet Nagendra!
His name is Hindi for Lord of Snakes, and he is the son of Izantis - [link] and another god that deals with flora and partly fauna. He is associated with the Cobra and water snakes as well as the white lotus. Nagendra is a happy guy that loves to sing and dance, which makes everyone happy. XD

This is the first time that I've ever drawn a humanoid character with multiple limbs, and its HARD. Omg, I had so much trouble with where the second set of arms connect, but it worked out in the end. I really really love his tiny waist fffff omg, waist cinching so much love. He's doing a sort of hip drop/ hip roll spin thing, I dunno. XD He's just being Nagendra~ Overall, I love this piece so so much, and will probably do a larger one of him some day just because. <333

^{Artwork, Nagendra © 2010 P. Lolla (*souls-poison)
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