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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

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Zotz @zotz.bsky.social · Jan 15
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Maya goddess emerging from a flower. Based on a whistle figure.
Maya goddess seen from the waist up emerging out of a frangipani flower. Illustration is based on a figure.
April 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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.
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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First reupload is done! Please share, like and subscribe!
Sorry for the late post, Reuploads from now on will will be on mondays and thursdays!
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Three young girls are chosen to protect their people, but are they ready for the challenges to come?
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March 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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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.
January 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Redesigned the Scooby Doo gang as Maya characters in the late classic period (c. 600-900).
Scooby Doo gang redesigned as characters in the classic period of the Maya.
January 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Tezcatlipoca. Based on Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, Codex Borgia, Codex Tudela and Duran's illustrations. #aztec #mexica #nahua #mesoamerica #smokingmirror
The nahua deity Tezcatlipoca standing with cape and raised arm.
January 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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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.
January 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Happy New Year 2025!
It is the year of the snake (乙巳年). Wish you all the best in the coming year!

Balhae clothing, early 8th century
December 31, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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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.
A depiction of the Eagle Lady goddess of nahua myth who is shown at twilight rising in the sky with cape-wings, gold hair and colorful knife-tipped skirt with a full moon visible in the background.
December 25, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Merry Christmas to everyone!
December 25, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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If it doesn't look like this, I'm not interested. Art by Peter Connolly.
Penelope reclining forward from Legends of Odysseus illustrated by Peter Connolly. Hera and Athena depicted in the manner of the late bronze age for Legends of Odysseus illustrated by Peter Connolly. Heroes of the Trojan war depicted in the late bronze age by Peter Connolly.
December 24, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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The Three Princes

Three brothers of Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina who fought against the Chalca, 1464

For the more detailed explanation about their attire, historical context and additional information, please subscribe to my Patreon!
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December 14, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14

Iyadzehe Sicuaa Dzico Ñaña (Dec 2023)

Lady 10 Deer Jaguar Quechquemitl was a Mixtec princess & later queen. I put a chihuahua in this pic in honour of my dog Hazel. The work of @zotz.bsky.social was helpful for me in reconstructing a Mixtec noblewoman.

#MedievalSky 🗃️
Coloured pencil illustration. A Mixtec teenager sits on a large cushion. It is covered with jaguar fur. The girl wears a jaguar fur shawl over layers of green and gold on her torso, a red skirt with gold fringe, and red and white sandals. Her hair is tied with colourful cloth into braids twisted around the top of her head. She wears a necklace of turquoise, gold, and spondylus shells, and earrings and bracelets made of turquoise and gold. Her skin is painted an unnatural shade of yellow. A chihuahua is curled up at her side as she raises a glass of foaming chocolate to her lips. She is sitting in a room with a woven mat over a red floor. There are murals of royal figures on the wall behind her. To her right is a red doorframe hung with a white curtain, overlooking green mountains in the distance. In the light of the doorway stands a large ceramic vessel full of steaming, bubbling chocolate, with two ceramic cups next to it.
December 14, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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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.
November 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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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.
October 31, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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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.
December 4, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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Smoking Mirror

#art #artist #mesoamerica #mexico #aztec #tezcatlipoca #illust #illustration
a painting of the Aztec god of the night, Tezcatlipoca, in an odd pose referencing the codex depictions of him. He is standing on a floor made of the night sky
December 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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A new addition to the Aztec teteo series I have been doing. Got a few more up my sleeve. To see this and more support me on patreon!
Tezcatlipoca | Daniel Parada
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December 10, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Hey everyone, I'm Mike and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator interested in paleoart! Follow for obscure Paleogene ungulates and ~vibes~
Volaticotherium, a small gliding mammal from the Jurassic, clings tightly to a tree branch. Vector illustration of Rodhocetus, an early protocetid whale, swimming through the water A digital painting of a pair of Hexaprotodon hippos in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka strolling across the bottom of a mangrove forest under murky water, followed by a small school of masheer. On their way they disturb a pair of softshell turtles and an asian water monitor Digital illustration of Numidotherium, a very strange dome headed elephant relative, staring awkwardly at the viewer
September 20, 2023 at 3:04 PM
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Sivatherium in chiaroscuro

#sciart #paleoart #paleoartist #paleontology
December 8, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Sketch of Mississippian warriors during a siege.
November 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Powhatan village in Virgnia. Commission piece.
November 11, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Nencatacoa
The Muisca god of festivities, drunkenness, and dance, protector of the mantle makers and artists.

See artworks like this one month early!
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December 8, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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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.
November 11, 2024 at 3:13 AM