ENTWINED- TLALOC original reference drawing #1

My comic co-creator Dr Mike 2000 gave me this brief for the Aztec god Tlaloc aka Rain and Fertility.

'She appears as a small fertility figure with large weepy eyes. To give her a vertical aspect, she’s always underneath a high cloud, raining down on her. Mopey, picked on by the others, cares deeply for her little meat puppet thing, the human biome'. 

My visual research process followed the same steps as before- grab research images of the deity as sculptures, paintings and scrolls, and mimic them. Here's the first one, first pencilled lightly and then ink pens to build up lines, not too thick in this case, and then finishing with an ink wash for shadow and depth.

And here is the image I drew from:

More to come! Visit Dr Mike’s instagram and look for his Inktober sketches to see his rendition of our friendly little god  (taken from https://www.instagram.com/dr_mike_2000/)