The Tomb of the Crab Queen

This artwork was made specially for the collective art exhibition called “ORGULLO PERUANO”, where the main concept was the Peruvian culture, so I decided to work with the Mochica god Ai-Apaec, creating first a complete character -The Crab Queen- and a story behind it:

“There was once a gorgeous Mochica princess who always dreamed about ancient gods and great power. One day she made a pact with the god of war, Ai-Apaec, asking for eternal beauty over all creatures in her land, but there’s one rule she can’t break: To never kiss a man past midnight. After a time, she met a young warrior and they fell in love immediately. One night after midnight, the warrior whitout knowing anything about the pact, kissed the princess while her was asleep, and the curse soon doomed the entire kingdom, the princess lower body was turned into a giant crab, and her face flesh was ripped off showing her bones, serpents grow between her darkest hair and her non-stopping blood-lust for men begun, armed with a couple of golden Tumi knives, she killed almost every men on her way, so in her last remains of lucidity, she runs to lock herself on the underground tombs, she became a unique of her kind, a cursed killer, a crab queen of the dead who was cursed to rule her tombs forever”.

All the artwork started from pencil sketch and finally drawing entirely with Adobe Illustrator pen-tool, without any tablets, just mouse click.

The Tomb of the Crab Queen is available in art-prints only in 35 x 50cm Giclée print over acid-free 100% cotton paper.

Orgullo Peruano – Collective Art-Exhibit – July 2016 – La Botika Bar

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