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Scandinavian goddess Freyja. She's goddess of love, fertility and beauty, and she rides on boar, or in a carriage led by two large felines. Freyja loves jewelry and diamonds, and she also carries a coat made of hawkfeathers. It makes her capable of transforming into any kind of a bird.


I find it fun to pick all kind of icky colors from my markers and felt tip pens, and then mix them until I like what I see :'3

markers, felt-tip pens, brushpen, gel pen, photoshop
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*LeahCK Apr 30, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Beautiful! I love the Norse Gods, being partly Scandinavian I can connect. :) Great job! :heart:
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~ThirdEarth Jan 13, 2013
good use of colors- it flows nicely
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~ThirdEarth Jan 13, 2013
good use of colors- it flows nicely
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~StraightLinesBend Oct 4, 2012
This is perfect. It's not at all how I have ever imagined her, but it portrays her perfectly. I love the colours especially, they're gorgeous and bright.
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~GoblinHordeStudios Jul 1, 2012   Digital Artist
Wow this is really neat looking.

Hate to be that guy and Im sure someone else already mentioned it but since I read the Edda I thought Id point it out that Freyja rides a chariot pulled by cats its her twin brother Frey that rides apon the golden boar Gullenbursti. However it just depends on which version you read Sometimes Frey and Freyja are depicted as the same god. But I think its cooler that when Freyja rides he boar.
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*evelmiina Jul 6, 2012  Professional
Your details are correct, I just found it more inspiring to think "what if" and since it doesn't literally say she couldn't have rode the boar (as she had one herself, too) I translated it as, "she could've", even if it's more popular to say her chariot of choice was the one with felines. Perhaps I should fix the description to make it clear it's just my own imagination mixed with some literary myths, so people don't get confused :) anyway, thanks!
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~GoblinHordeStudios Jul 6, 2012   Digital Artist
Dose the boar have eight legs in this pic? The first book I read of norse mythology had Freyja as the owner of the boar and I thought it was preety cool, cooler then the cats that most versions have her ride but since it never says what kind of cats they are I like to think that there sabre toothed tigers.

I sketched a picture a few months ago of Frey or Frayja's boar being riden across Bifrost [link]
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`rachelillustrates Jun 17, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
This is amazing. I love how they both look very otherwordly in different ways, but still seem to have come from the same place.
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~Emmysarus May 30, 2012  Student Writer
You have beautiful imagination.
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*evelmiina Jun 6, 2012  Professional
Thanks :)
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