Comment on Fourier Age Avatar by ScalerandiArt

All cats should wear ties <3

it's under the traditional media category, meaning by hand

Thanks! It was quite unexpected, I though the image was way too cryptic to aspire to that. I'm happy to see that the style doesn't put off people either. I often wonder whether I'm using the old school furry style too blatantly, but that's how anthro characters are in my head, rounded and fluffy.

A smartphone of unspecified brand. I think the photo I used for reference was actually of an Android phone but I don't remember.

Yes. ^_^ It's all explained in the sketch page, see the link in the description (a bit of a long reading though!)

That's what I thought o_O

I'd be curious to know why they found it offensive if possible, it might be useful for future pictures. I realized beforehand that using styles clearly inspired by religious pictures is always risky, but she is a fictional character and not a reference to any actual Hindu deity. I didn't mean to mock the style or make a caricature either: I painted this because I respect a lot the Hindu icon style and the way it employs symbolism, and the ideas I've put in reworking the symbols are easily the ideas I'm most passionate about, I'd never use them as a tool to mock something.

- The green cloth doesn't have a specific meaning, though it may remember that today there is an odd fad for labeling stuff "green" - green cars, green homes, etc. I made it dark green because it was the only color from the palette I've used that looked right in that area of the picture. The smartphone flames are green for the same reason, if they were yellow/red/orange they would look too confusing against the golden frame. I have developed an odd way of choosing colors. X-D
- The sparks on the CD were copied from an actual CD under light, but I noticed that depending on the inclination you could have only the red-green-blue flares visible. RGB is one of the most common encoding of color for digital formats so it seemed ok.
- The chair is similar to Roman chairs though I haven't intentionally copied them, I just picked a simple shape which made sense. At first I wanted to make the seat look like a tree root but so near to the clothing folds it would have been too confusing. Probably it's also a separate piece from the seat's back since it is not symmetrical to its middle line. (The asymmetry is intentional, exact symmetry would make a frontal scene like this feel very unnatural. It's a trick used on the face of human 3D models too.)
- I actually wanted to name her "Purr". It's silly but I fear ponies have warped my sense of silliness beyond recovery. :-] Yet for some reason I don't feel that making up a more specific name would be appropriate, so I'll leave her nameless.

I also forgot to explain the title - it's a reference to Fourier's discovery of frequency analysis, which is the foundation of large areas of computing and scientific analysis and effectively ushered a new era in understanding of the physical world.