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Mesoamerica artist and the creator of the comics, Zotz and Dream Rider. 🦜 🇸🇻 Based in San Francisco, CA Support: https://patreon.com/Zotz My links: https://linktr.ee/zotzcomic Commissions: dparada415@gmail.com or DM me here nsfw 🔞: @zotzchuu.bsky.social

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Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · last yr.

With my ongoing projects happening, there is another I have had to put a pause with for the time. But I intend to return to at some point next year. That is my mesoamerican historical fashion studies. My goal is to eventually make a book. I will make a thread here of the ones I have done thus far.

Infographic of classic period maya clothing.Infographic of late postclassic lowland Maya clothing.Infographic of Postclassic Maya clothing from Guatemala.Classic period Maya women hairstyles and headwear.
Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

A day late, but posting anyway for #portfolioday I mainly do mesoamerican related art, but also sometimes draw other cultures and myths from history. I also do historical fashion studies of mesoamerica and comics. You can support me on patreon or commission me. And look out for my comic this year!

Illustration of the Eagle Lady, wife of the Sun, according to Nahua myths of Mexico. She is an aspect of Itzpapalotl and is seen here based on a depiction of said goddess with eagle wings. Further, her image is based on a possible depiction of a goddess with gold hair and yellow paint seen married to the sun under a cloak shaped like eagle wings and tail as seen here. She represents the time of the day when the moon is still visible during sunlight. Albert Pinot's painting, "bat woman" was an inspiration for the pose and atmosphere as well.Historical portrait illustration of the Maya queen, K'abel of the Waka kingdom in the late classic period. Here, she is shown inside a palace interior wearing a red huipil and red skirt based on a figurine depicting her found in a burial. The headdress, shield and face paint are also based on the same figurine. She also holds a baton of the lightning deity K'awiil, who was also a symbol of rulership. Illustration commission of a precolonial Powhatan village in Virginia. The scene shows three characters, a woman wearing a deer skin apron collecting oysters by the river behind some reeds. Walking behind the reeds is a man with wearing front and back deerskin aprons and carrying a bow and arrow. The other woman smiling at the other collecting oysters previously mentioned is carrying a basket full of dogwood flowers. Behind them all is a village scene showing some men grilling some fish, a grandmother preparing something with her granddaughter observing and some women dancing.Scene from my sci-fi Mesoamerican comic, Dream Rider currently in production. The top shows a futuristic city inspired by the West Mexican shaft tomb cultures in preclassic Teuchitlan, Jalisco. The bottom shows a man arriving on a monocycle at the entrance of a bustling market.
Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

So as 2024 is ending or ended depending where you are, a review of some of my illustrations I made. Some illustrations and sketches are missing and of course, my comic Dream Rider, which took up most of my time lol. Here's hoping for another successful year in art. 🥂 Happy New Year Everyone!

12 cropped images of drawings I made over the year with one illustrations representing each month.
Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Eagle Lady, who is the wife of the Sun (Tonatiuh). She is known by various names, including: Cuauhtli Izohuauh, Quilaztli (also referred to as the witch), Coacihuatl, Cuaucihuatl, Yaocihuatl, and Tzitziminicihuatl. This depiction is based on both the Codex Borbonicus and Codex Borgia.

Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cihuateotl descending from the sky at night. They were said to prey upon children. Originally meant to post around Halloween but I was severely ill at the time. Based on stone sculptures and florentine codex.

ReyTonatiuh@reytonatiuh.bsky.social · 3y ago

An illustration I made depicting the legend of how Quetzalcoatl and his precious twin Xolotl pilfer the bones of humanity from the Lord of the Dead in Mictlan, to bring humanity back to life.

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ReyTonatiuh@reytonatiuh.bsky.social · 3y ago

An illustration of the Sun, Tonatiuh and his Cihuateteo, standing over the defeated Tzitzimime - ominous, powerful goddesses who seek to attack the Sun and cause cosmic instability.

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Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mourning watery woman. Based on a funeral scene of the Maya Maize deity from the early classic period. She is wearing a beaded belt and apron. Curiously this is among the last depictions I have seen of aprons worn by Maya women.

Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Maya deity "God L" tying a bracelet to a woman in his palace. The various women in the scene are proposed to be either his daughters or his wives. Based on the Princeton vase painting which also depicts the Hero Twins in the same scene.

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Zotz@zotz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Coyolxauhqui, sister of Huitzilopochtli who became the Moon. The stars behind her reference her brothers, the 400 brothers who became the stars. Based on her stone monolith.