Entwined- Tlaloc reference drawing #4

This one was first drawn, as usual, in blue pencil, and then drawn over in a 0.3 fine line pen. Then I used Copic markers to colour in the red, green, orange and blue areas, deciding to use ink washes to fill in the black areas, as well as to provide a suggestion of shadows and attempt (not very well) to add some depth and volume. This was the first time using ink washes over Copic markers and I was happy with the result, neither tending to dominate or wash out the other.

Above is the reference image, a prototypical rendition of an Aztec god, although with a somewhat more sinister veiled visage. And backward feet! Something so simple carries with it so much of the sinister and horror-filled. Reminded me of a ghost story I was told once, about a hitchhiking woman in a white dress with backward feet. It scared me then and it still works now.