01 Feb 2012, 10:02 am
01 Feb 2012, 10:24 am
Woaaaah! This is awesome! I love it!
01 Feb 2012, 9:16 pm
02 Feb 2012, 10:21 am
03 Feb 2012, 6:33 pm
^ How did you make that?
A girl I've named Bethany Haroldson. Don't really know what to do with her, but I picture her as a shy and insecure but sweet young woman.
03 Feb 2012, 7:35 pm
Bethany Haroldson's cocky boyfriend. He's widely considered a handsome heartthrob by the local girls, so the insecure and shy Bethany is surprised to find him interested in her out of all women.
I actually don't know what to do with this character yet, but I wanted to give him a bit of backstory so that he's more than just a random doodle.
03 Feb 2012, 10:02 pm
03 Feb 2012, 10:38 pm
04 Feb 2012, 1:40 am
Ever wondered what the ancient Egyptian equivalent of dogs would have looked like? Of course, you wouldn't want to play fetch with this guy.
All kidding aside, the ancient Egyptians actually did have pet dogs in the ordinary sense of the word. However, when I was a second-grader learning about Egypt for the first time, I was amazed at the menagerie of exotic African animals that the Egyptians coexisted with (e.g. crocodiles, hippos, antelopes, baboons, and lions). For that reason I've always associated Egypt with African wildlife.
BTW, spotted hyenas in real life probably would not make good pets.
04 Feb 2012, 6:24 am
The Sun God Ra judges Cleopatra and Hatshepsut on who is more fit to rule ancient Egypt. Needless to say, Cleo's Macedonian heritage puts her at a major disadvantage here...
Seriously, how the heck did Cleopatra and all the other Ptolemaic rulers avoid the scorching Egyptian sun anyway? Effective sunscreen wouldn't be invented until the 1930s. Did they spend all their daylight hours indoors or something?
04 Feb 2012, 10:26 am
This is supposed to be a lower-class peasant village in ancient Egypt. I actually have no idea what Egyptian peasant houses would have looked like during the Pharaonic period (as far as I know, the majority of the houses that have been recovered at archaeological sites belonged to nobility and middle-class artisans, not peasantry), so this is only a layman's guess. I still like drawing simple huts like these though.
04 Feb 2012, 2:58 pm
04 Feb 2012, 5:50 pm
The ancient Egyptians take the Maya to task for ripping off their pyramids.
In all seriousness, Nile Valley and Mesoamerican pyramids served very different functions; the former were always tombs whereas the latter were usually either temples or places of internment for kings.
04 Feb 2012, 6:30 pm
The ancient Egyptians take the Maya to task for ripping off their pyramids.
In all seriousness, Nile Valley and Mesoamerican pyramids served very different functions; the former were always tombs whereas the latter were usually either temples or places of internment for kings.
If they could prove theirs was significantly different, or used for a different purpose, they might get away with it.
04 Feb 2012, 6:47 pm
This is supposed to be a lower-class peasant village in ancient Egypt. I actually have no idea what Egyptian peasant houses would have looked like during the Pharaonic period (as far as I know, the majority of the houses that have been recovered at archaeological sites belonged to nobility and middle-class artisans, not peasantry), so this is only a layman's guess. I still like drawing simple huts like these though.
From what I know, the Ancient Egyptians preferred the rectangular plan to the circular/radial plan. The Kerma Civilization, however, preferred the roundhouse model characteristic of much of Subsaharan Africa; perhaps this is not surprising to me, given the Nubian's Nilo-Saharan linguistic affiliation.
By the way, what is the miniature obelisk for?
06 Feb 2012, 8:58 am
^ How did you make that?
The only trick is to manually set the camera to underexpose the tree. No Photoshop. The rest is being at the right place the right time.
