
Just trying to get back into the swing of painting and to remember what I'd learned, after being away from painting for a bit.
The celestial stag started as an NPC illustration for a Pathfinder game (I was trying to avoid going super-saturated on the colors, and I'm still not sure if that worked okay). Ahuizotl are powerful Aztec water-creatures - the tail-hand is part of the folklore!
The celestial stag started as an NPC illustration for a Pathfinder game (I was trying to avoid going super-saturated on the colors, and I'm still not sure if that worked okay). Ahuizotl are powerful Aztec water-creatures - the tail-hand is part of the folklore!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Cervine (Other)
Size 828 x 1280px
File Size 139.1 kB
They're "water dogs," but northwest coast mythology especially assigns a lot of importance and spiritual association to otters. And there's otter-related stuff in Ireland too I've heard about. So I'm pretty sure this was Aztecs encountering some sort of otters - even if only as mythology from further north or further south.
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