March 004 Picture of the Week at kiyotei's den - Your online resource for graphics, art, collaborations and mailart since 1994.

Native Piper

Kokopelli gets a lot of attention these days, but I've been drawing different versions of the hump-backed Yei since 1992. I couldn't find a great deal of information back then, but I thought it was cool that he was a fertility symbol and a traveling merchant/vagabond deity. He is like the traveling salesman jokes I remember as a youth. The ones where the farmer's daughter was the focus of the story. This was originally a rough sketch that I imported into Photoshop and "colorized" with various filters.