Reading a book about the National Museum Of Anthropology in Mexico City, I stumbled into a photo of Huehueteotl, the ancient God Of Fire in Aztec mythology. I thought I should give it a try transforming the image into an illustration that can be used as a T-shirt graphic.
The original inspiration was a photo of a small terracotta dating back from 800 AD that is now on display in the National Museum Of Anthropology in Mexico City:
Since the photo was shot from a side angle and I wanted to draw a symmetrical illustration, first I made a quick sketch just to help visualizing the shadows and lights…
…and a second, modified and more detailed sketch that I scanned and traced in Illustrator:
This is the basic linework, drawn in Ai.
Then I added the colors in Ai and the textures and final details in Ps.
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