Designed using some creative input from Danil Pan (Read: I threw my starting sketches at him and put him on the spot to tell me what he thought it looked like, then I iterated based on that), this piece started out reminding me of an Aztec carving of a conquistador, to which Danil put forth the counter of it being a Skeleton King. That got me interested in cleaning up the excess elements (the original image had tons of smaller motifs all around the main one, drowning it out) and making a more contrasted output.

Danil then mentioned that the parts on the side looked like shoulders, which got me working on bringing forth the impression of a ceremonial robe for the bottom part of the imagery.

Thanks for the help in refining this piece, Danil !