Piece of the “Lacustrine Cryptozoology” Series || Step by Step Process.

Greetings, today I’ll present to you the step by step process of one of the pieces forming part of a drawing series that I started last year regarding figurative tendency, surrounding a topic inspired on anthropomorphic lacustrine characters, such as fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, reptiles and aquatic mammals, fused with other beings that describe part of the myths, legends and stories that surround the Maracaibo Lake, on the State of Zulia, Venezuela, where I am from, and since I grew up in the oil-dedicated town of Lagunillas on its eastern coast; and I found my creative muse on stories that I had heard for a long time, and those have been commented on its shores by locals and fishermen, in reference to fantastic beings like mermaids and marine monsters described since the Colonial Period, some benign while others ponder darker intentions and love to frighten those who would have the privilege or bad luck to encounter them, just as it usually happens on the stories concerning other water beings along the world.

Those cases about fantastic animals and creatures, both extinct or paranormal, are studied and researched by a science named Criptozoology, from here comes the title of this series: “Lacustrine Cryptozoology” and the conceptual aspect of it.

Formally, if we sink on the figurative relations of the piece, it describe a series of aquatic beings or anthropomorphic characters, developed through drawing as a mean of graphic and gestural expression, where line predominates as the main element on the character definition and construction of the composition, everything solved by the pen and gouache in black ink and sepia technique, which offer a huge range of hues and variety on the expressive side of the work presentation, everything done on 300gm CANSON Watercolor Paper of 45.7 cm. high and 61 cm. long.