Grandfather Spider

My recent submission (Toilet Spiders [link]) reminded me of this drawing I did a few years ago. I've seen tons of anthro creatures, but I don't think I've seen many anthropomorphised spiders. This is somewhat a take on a figure from Native American myth (Spider was said to have taught people how to weave) as well as Anansi the Spider, a trickster. And spiders are awesome and underrated and terribly under-appreciated.

The whole piece was an experimental thing with a ink wash/coloured pencil technique I was fiddling around with at the time, but never really went anywhere with. The web is silver metallic ink which doesn't really show up in photos very well.