I've been drawing fantasy beasts in school, and I decided to give the Ahuizotl a try. If you watch Rudethefox or Thumbclawz you may have seen them do a few anthro ahuizotls, what I wanted to do was just read the legends/descriptions and draw my own thing.

From wiki "...very like the teui, the small teui dog; small and smooth, shiny. It has small, pointed ears, just like a small dog. It is black, like rubber; smooth, slippery, very smooth, longtailed. And its tail is provided with a hand at the end; just like a human hand is the point of its tail. And its hands are like a raccoon's hands or like a monkey's hands. It lives, it is a dweller in watery caverns, in watery depths. And if anyone arrives there at its entrance, or there in the water where it is, it then grabs him there. It is said that it sinks him, it plunges him into the water; it carries him to its home, it introduces him to the depths; so its tail goes holding him, so it goes seizing him ... [When the body is retrieved] the one it has drowned no longer has his eyes, his teeth, and his nails; it has taken them all from him. But his body is completely unblemished, his skin uninjured. Only his body comes out all slippery-wet; as if one had pounded it with a stone; as if it had inflicted small bruises ..."

For this one I wanted to really explore classic ink drawing. I also wanted to draw the beast in its environment, rather than the floating figures I often draw - so, work more on a composition. I also did more research than usual, and referenced some otters for the face and body.
30x30 cm.