I was thinking about this. In my comic I draw God every now and then, I used to draw him as the stereotypical old man but with really triangle eyes. After one failed atempt at drawing him like that I realised that I can make God look God-like without being big, I now draw God as a giant yellow eye.

Mainly I want to mention this
http://www.jsayers.com/thingpart/thingpart193.html
It's an awesome webcomic and I love the way she draws God, it's pretty original. I'm also partial to SMBC's God
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=960

So is there any depictions of God you think are awesome or original? How do you draw God in your comic (would draw God if he came up in your comic)?

No really, i find it more likable for god to be depicted as something ordinary or silly. A yellow eye sounds good though :)

Shit, I didn't see that.

I'm an idiot.

Custard Trout
Thingpart depicts him as a giant, floating cube.

You did not read the first post!

I dunno if I'd ever have occasion to draw God, but I'd probably do the 'not show anything' route. Have him just out of the frame all the time or something.

I kinda like Sinfest's take, where God's always the sunshine behind a bunch of clouds. Sometimes a big hand comes out.

theres only 2 rules two remember when drawing god..

1. hes black

2. He looks exactly like samuel l jackson.


have fun!

I've never drawn God but if ever I draw God I'll just represent God as a lens flare without any form whatsoever.

Why?

Because God is a being that is not limited by a physical body, and there is no form whatsoever because anything that has a form is considered to be a limited being and God is not a limited being. Do you think the infinite would have a form?



But if you wanna be technical about it, it is still wrong to depict God as a lens flare. Why? Because you are just an artist and you are just a human.

If you draw something, that means that that object is something that can be grasped by your sense of sight.

God cannot be grasped by your sense of sight because your sight is limited.

To come to think of it, you cannot stare at the sun without destroying your eyes. Because the sun is too much for your limited imperfect sight. If the sun is too much, then what more with God?

Therefore anyone who draws God will fail in accurately depicting God. :)

kyupol
God cannot be grasped by your sense of sight because your sight is limited.

To come to think of it, you cannot stare at the sun without destroying your eyes. Because the sun is too much for your limited imperfect sight. If the sun is too much, then what more with God?

Therefore anyone who draws God will fail in accurately depicting God. :)

More like no one knows what the hell he looks like because he's never been proven to exist. And the sun is just goddamn bright, agh, i hate driving home at 5 p.m. when that stupid sun is in my sight.


If i had to draw god i draw him as a typical anime style girl with extremely large breasts, or even as Buddha. To be honest i can't recall ever seeing god depicted in a serious manner for a comic, it's always gag strips or something.

In Due East, God is implied to be there but you never see Him. It is made clear that events are in motion and He's in control of those events, but that's the extent of it. There's no need to show God as some specific person or something; that wouldn't even make sense in Due East. B)

If i had to draw god i draw him as a typical anime style girl with extremely large breasts

You some part of some goddess-worshipping New Age religion?

I've always liked to depict God as a floating light of some kind. At times he's a little flame on a match, sometimes he's a floating lightbulb. I had him depicted as a blackberry with a backlit screen on one occasion, and once more as a glow-stick at a sweet rave party. But generally his personality is the same. God genuinely does care about humanity, but he has seen so much of history that he tends to get mixed up on some regards. For instance, hearing that some fellows are going to a match at the local arena and assuming that they are talking about gladiatorial combat, rather then a soccer game. He's not up on most current events either; heck, he still thinks that coca-cola contains cocaine. However, he does want what is best for humanity, though his powers are limited not to outright miracles so much as nudging probability in the right direction. It ends up as more of a rune goldberg machine of good fortune at times.

I've also dabbled with writing God as a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome, but I've had less success with that.

I don't believe in god so I would never draw him. But if he did exist I bet he looks like a thin santa clause. I think they are brothers.

If it's the Judao Christian god, accepted depictions are these:
-Jesus: Middle aged man with long brown hair, beard, robes, sandals, halo.
-A lamb.
-A burning bush.
-Light in the sky.
-Old man.: with long white hair and beard, very large.

You're not meant to depict him at all for the Muslim version, but they like geometric patterns instead.

Buddhists have a lot of different aspects of Buddha... Which one you depict should depend on the context.

Hindu gods are the best, there are a lot of these and they all look fantastic.
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I don't remember much of the Judao Christian god depictions in comics apart from the REALLY creepy looking anthro lamb in Jack.
It wears a toga and has a very smiley face...

You know....I am a pretty devout guy, but I've never felt the need to include God in any of my comics. Though George did pray in one strip.

I doubt I'll ever show God. If I were to do so (perhaps for another type of project) I would probably just use a blinding light (maybe with a vaguely manshaped ouline within the light), despite the fact that he DOES have a tangible physical body. Depicting His glory and brilliance would be enough to get the point across.

Either that or on His Throne with Jesus at His right hand, surrounded by concourses of angels, because that would be an impressive sight. I'm not likely to draw that one, though, because while I can draw dragons, and awesome architecture, my ability to draw human beings leaves something to be desired.


Also, while the portrayal in the links of the first post are obviously incorrect, they are INCREDIBLY funny! I'm glad you linked those! :D

If God ever showed up in my comic I'd probably use some of the classics - you know, pillar of fire, sun-behind-clouds, Alanis Morrisette. Or perhaps some character's walking past some shrubbery, and a bush spontaneously combusts - that would be God.

My dad, an ordained minister, once said that if he absolutely had to depict God in a specific form, it would look like a translucent hologram of a man or woman, probably indeterminate gender. That'd be pretty beautiful, I think.

God and Lily would have an all-out Thunderdome battle in my comic, I think. ;)

When I was a little kid, I used to draw God to look like my dad. Probably because he was so freakin' tall, he would tower over my little head. ...I'm sure he got a big ego boost out of those drawings, lol. lol!

Charlton Heston... he thought he was god. :)

The Judeo-Christian god is lucky- He can pass as Posiden, Neptune, Jupiter, Zeus, Odin, Farther Christmas, and even Santa Claus... Well, as he ages and packs on the pounds. That's an acting job for life. ^___^

Yeah, because of the similarity in that form to all those other figures I would HAVE to do him (or her) as the bearded white haired fella! It's just cooler that way :)

NickGuy
theres only 2 rules two remember when drawing god..

1. hes black

2. He looks exactly like samuel l jackson.

Not Morgan Freeman?

I think I wouldn't at all. God is kind of one of those things it's better to just leave alone. You can't make fun of that level of religion without seriously pissing a lot of people off, and to just try and be nice and treat it in a "correct" way is still asking for trouble.

If I had to have some divine influence, I'd probably go the Waynestock route and have Jim Morrison appear to them as a vision or something and not call him god.

lba
I think I wouldn't at all. God is kind of one of those things it's better to just leave alone. You can't make fun of that level of religion without seriously pissing a lot of people off, and to just try and be nice and treat it in a "correct" way is still asking for trouble.

Ooooooooooh lba...

Guess who's angry with you.

My comic doesn't revolve around Christianity or anything dealing with God.

It's about Greek Mythology, so I guess the main 'God' would have to be Zeus.
And I'm not sure how I'd draw him nowadays...but uh here is the last version I did of him. He's not gonna look like that really, because that's in my somewhat old style.
Oh, and Zeus is the only one on that page with a halo. Just to clear things up.

Someday I may have to put God in a part of a comic or something, and if I did, I probably wouldn't draw him as a physical being, but probably as just a voice or something, more supernatural.

kyupol
Therefore anyone who draws God will fail in accurately depicting God. :)

unless ... you draw - NOTHING !

if I drew god I think he'd be a thought bubble invading peoples heads.

or a Bible with a beard depending if its supposed to be comical or serious. or a mixture of the two...

or maybe he appears as different objects but with the same iconic beard... that'd be cool too.

kyupol
But if you wanna be technical about it, it is still wrong to depict God as a lens flare. Why? Because you are just an artist and you are just a human.

If you draw something, that means that that object is something that can be grasped by your sense of sight.

Not really. What about michelangelo? He painted God (think of that one with the fingers touching), and no one's panties got into a bundle about that one.
Using lens flare is kind of a throwback to the heavens literally being heaven, and justifying nature with religion, or vice versa. Pretty old fashioned.

Just because religious things are "beyond our levels of human understanding" doesn't mean that we're not invited to try to figure them out. It's not blasphemy to try to find meaning in religion, even if it means "getting it wrong."

In my comic, I'm going to have... well, suffice it to say, some sort of religious vision. (not god, though- god is so cliche.)

lba
I think I wouldn't at all. God is kind of one of those things it's better to just leave alone. You can't make fun of that level of religion without seriously pissing a lot of people off, and to just try and be nice and treat it in a "correct" way is still asking for trouble.

Oh boy, I must be in a heap of trouble.

Morgan Freeman. And Samuel L. Jackson is the devil.

But there's not really cause to draw God in a comic about quitting Gamestop...

Alannis Morrisette



or Karl Marx.



Since my comic only features a few Christians and they don't invoke their deity like the others God will never be shown, though some of the deities of the world do show up at times.

For instance Glorreaka: http://www.drunkduck.com/Go_A_Viking_The_Sword_of_Kings/index.php?p=455721

Kristen Gudsnuk
Just because religious things are "beyond our levels of human understanding" doesn't mean that we're not invited to try to figure them out. It's not blasphemy to try to find meaning in religion, even if it means "getting it wrong."

I agree. :)

I'm a fairly devout Christian, and no representation of (the Christian or other) God bothers me in the least. To me, God is a non-physical entity, taking other forms when needing to "appear" to people (such as Jesus, the burning bush, a king on a throne, etc.). The same is true of the devil or any other non-mortal beings. They are not part of the physical world, so any physical representation of them will be wrong -- and right. Supernatural beings must take avatars. They are only how the world perceives them, and one artist's perception is as valid as another's.

My comic won't be showing God. While values of some of my characters are a reflection of Christian (my) values, religion isn't really talked about or brought up. I picture most of the characters as at least semi-agnostic (they are in their 20's and probably going through an "if their was a god, these terrible things wouldn't happen" phase). There was a scene where Kaida visited a priest as part of her attempt to make peace with her past, and she stated in no uncertain terms that she didn't believe in God and felt the Bible was a sexist piece of garbage. -- I also planned a dream/vision/near-death thing that will show another character's subconscious perception of life after death.

My other comic (strip) is about science. I wasn't planning to include any gods in it, but that's not to say I never will. Supernatural beings are always of scientific interest. ;)

I wouldn't draw God because I don't have a visual mental image of Him (I am Christian, I'd say non-denominational, though the ID says 'Orthodox') and I think that depicting Him thus would be too ...three-dimensional, where far more dimensions are involved instead, obviously. I haven't ever had the need to draw God- most of my characters don't have the time or luxury to discuss religion- and I suspect that even if I were to address the idea with a comic with religious beings (I'm seriously considering that), God would be omnipresent.

The best way to depict omnipresent is to continuously alter the manifestations of God (if a visual stimulus is necessary) and keep constant the one dimension that has the transcending quality, which would be Consciousness. Brain waves. Call that what you like.

So after all this rumination, I think I'd depict God with bold italics in a non-contoured, defined opaque bubble which, however, would blend in well in the setting of the frame.

Yup. I think that's how I'd approach it.

In my comic I'd just snap a picture of myself and say "I created you all!!11"

Nah, not really... God would never have a physical form in my comics. Anything he would do would work through other less direct methods.
So in that sense God could already be working away in my comic. My character's are religious and pray to him. As far as I know he didn't show up and step on the aliens.

Would be a funny concept if you had characters that prayed and a big foot with sandal came from the sky stopping anything their prayer needed squished.