Darkstalkers Embrace the Dark entry.

This is my entry to the Darkstalkers: Embrace the Dark contest being held by Capcom. I like this character for multiple reasons, not just because he is my contest entry, or because he is based upon an obscure mythological being, but this is the first time in a long time that I have drawn something on white paper, and let me tell you I did not realize how much I missed it. This was so much better than coloring on the paper I usually use, and I hope to be using white paper for more art in the future. This is also the best example of my new coloring method. Before, everything had a cartoony black outline around it, and I was never particularly fond of that. In this new process, I erase the lines just enough before I add color that I can still see what I'm doing but it's not visible. I think it looks good, but I'd love your input.
Now to the actual character. This is Itzilatl, the Ahuizotl. I simply copy-pasted his backstory from my submission email, so this is what I've sent in to Capcom. I don't want to get my hopes up, but that Lord Raptor statue is pretty damn sweet, and the wait time is going to EAT. ME. ALIVE.

Itzilatl once dwelled in the rivers and lakes of Mexico, spending almost all of his time around the Aztec. This gave him a steady food supply, and he was living a content life of mischief and leisure. The Aztecs even seemed to like him, with one of their kings even taking the name of his race! Then everything he had come to know vanished when the mysterious men appeared. The Aztecs praised them as gods, but Itzilatl did not see these new people so higly. His suspicions were confirmed when the Aztecs and their whole civilization fell to the outsiders, taking his comfortable life with them. Angered by his loss, he began to wander, looking for a new place to call home. He had been roaming so long that he had almost lost hope of ever finding a new place to call home When he accidentally stumbled across another Darkstalker, who in exchange for not being devoured on the spot, told him of a place called Makai. After learning about this realm, he dreamed that instead of living off of whatever he could catch and hiding wherever he could, he could fight his way to the top and become the king of the Darkstalkers, if not earn a permanent shelter and food supply.