Monkey Warrior

The Grand Palace in Bankok contains many amazing sights and some wonderfully intricate buildings. During our visit my eye was particularly caught by several of the statues, and in particular by these monkey (or demon?) warriors that support two enormous chedi, or stupa. This drawing is a close up of one of these characters, one of about twenty surrounding each chedi.

The drawing itself was done using a drawing app on an ipad, with a restricted range of tones and colours. The background is purposely more cartoonish than the foreground in an attempt to increase the emphasis on the statue. Not sure if that is really what I have achieved, but I rather like the contrast between the detail of the armour and the vagueness of the chedi structure behind.