Here is the final design of Prince Nata! I’m pretty happy about how he looks now, both fierce but also a young child. Here is his story as promised :D After having been pregnant for 3 years, the queen gave birth to a lump of flesh and the father, also the great worrier king, Li, took this as a really bad omen and was about to stab the blop of flesh with his sword when a full grown boy jumped out of it to greed his mom and dad. Later that day a Taoist sage came to congratulate the king and queen with their newborn child, the king asked the sage to take him in as a disciple and train him to be a good prince. In the mean time the dragon king of the eastern sea, Ao Guang, taking children sacrifices as a payment for making the wether decent, otherwise he’d flood the cities and the country side. Nata being horrified by witnessing children being taken and eaten by the dragon king is having none of this, and decides to fight the dragon. Ao Guang sends his son to fight Nata in an epic battle, but looses to the little boy. Pleased with himself Nata returns to his father and tells him proudly of his deeds. Horrified by offending the Dragon King and the awesome strength of Nata, he is deeply disappointed with his son. Ao Guang visits king Li to demand a retribution for the death of his son and wants Nata to be the sacrifice, otherwise he’ll bring hell on earth. King Li is not able to sacrifice his own son and hell is breaking out on earth. Seeing the people suffering around him, Nata decides to sacrifice himself and commits suicide. He delivers his flesh and bones back to his parents and thank them for giving him life. He then wanders off as a spirit. He is later reborn by either the Buddha or the Taoist sage by taking lotus roots and making him a new body, giving him also the flaming wheels so that he can fly and many other awesome treasure weapons to fight monsters. The story doesn’t end there but you’ll get the rest when I upload the father 😁 . . . #journeytothewest #conceptart #nata #nezha #graphicnovel #annebirkp
