Jul 9, 2023
Pandaguan and the Shark
"Once upon a time, people never died. One day, a fisherman named Pandaguan caught a shark, which died. He became distraught and cried loudly in confusion. The god Kaptan became annoyed by his noises and struck him down with lightning. Pandaguan became the first man to ever die."
I first read this story when I was 6. The art is inspired from Adarna Books' illustrated book of the tale. I first drew it for the Legend prompt of Inktober 2019. Pandaguan's clothes and tattoos are copied from an illustration of tattooed Visayan men on the Boxer Codex .
The Aswang Project has used this art for their article on Pandaguan's wife Lubluban. Check it out!