There it is! A piece for March to Camelot 2025 for the prompt 'Family'. Twrch Twych and his children conversing to Menw and Gwythr from Culhwch and Olwen. This piece was made relatively early but I felt a need to film the process into a full video. I posted it to my YouTube channel if anyone wants to see!
Anyways some bonus concept art I did for this!
The first ink drawing I did of him only leaned into the boar part of him but the next sketch I indicated more about his past as once a human king cursed by God to become a boar. The man pig part of the design was made by pgwodewose first and I just really wanted to riff on the idea... Go look at that one first please!!!
Anyways the illustration has Twrch with a human nose and hands and an indication of his former self in the form of a human looking skin on the top of him. The skin element was actually inspired by the game OFF's Japhet, with the little cat skin on top of him inspiring the boar's original human skin
His children are similarly cursed, but they have human hands and feet instead. I also left a lot of sleepy little piglets because I thought they were adorable. The pigeon in the front of the boar is gwythr talking to Twrch to try and convince him to give him the scissors and comb but the boar doesn't want to let go of the past.... the small falcon on the top of the comb is Menw, who tried to steal the comb and scissors from the boar by lifting it off with his beak but, failing to pick it up, is injured lifelong by the boar.
