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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Aug 23, 2024 8:35:12 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Aug 26, 2024 19:55:00 GMT -5
Sometime in the 600s AD, a missionary from the West African kingdom of Wagadu (or old Ghana) is teaching geography to a group of rural Anglo-Saxon children. The book she is holding over her lap is probably written in Arabic script, a common script used in the literate parts of medieval West Africa.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Aug 31, 2024 19:38:48 GMT -5
It is the 500s AD in an alternate timeline, and a Maya army has rowed on the Gulf Stream across the Atlantic Ocean to the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal). Their agenda is to “liberate” the local Hispano-Roman population from their Germanic Visigothic rulers…and maybe obtain some captives for sacrificial rituals in the process. The Visigoths might possess iron weapons, armor, and horses, but the Maya like other Mesoamerican soldiers have at their disposal spears, darts, and clubs edged with obsidian that can have an even sharper cutting edge than steel!
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Post by anansi on Sept 1, 2024 1:13:54 GMT -5
Interesting idea, however why would they want to liberate the local Hispano-Roman population from their Germanic Visigothic rulers, rather than raw aggression, I'd set the invasion much earlier, say the copper or bronze age to give the invading Americans better chance of both fighting off diseases and Iron harden weapons , let's say our Americans were from Caral Supe, 3000-2500 BC. pre Incan civilization from Peru, since this would be the ending of the neolithic it would give them a chance to introduce certain crops like the potatoes, tomato, Maize and cotton and those big pig like creatures, perhaps the llamas as pack animals, although that would be a bit too early, as they were associated with later Andean civilizations, would've been interesting to see them meet the folks of Stonehenge and trading with the folks of Ta-Seti of that era, opening up a proto globalization.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 1, 2024 22:49:02 GMT -5
Interesting idea, however why would they want to liberate the local Hispano-Roman population from their Germanic Visigothic rulers, rather than raw aggression, I'd set the invasion much earlier, say the copper or bronze age to give the invading Americans better chance of both fighting off diseases and Iron harden weapons , let's say our Americans were from Caral Supe, 3000-2500 BC. pre Incan civilization from Peru, since this would be the ending of the neolithic it would give them a chance to introduce certain crops like the potatoes, tomato, Maize and cotton and those big pig like creatures, perhaps the llamas as pack animals, although that would be a bit too early, as they were associated with later Andean civilizations, would've been interesting to see them meet the folks of Stonehenge and trading with the folks of Ta-Seti of that era, opening up a proto globalization. I feel that Mesoamerican civilizations would have an easier time accessing the Old World via the Atlantic than civilizations on the Pacific coast of South America. Maybe the Olmecs could be a substitute?
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Post by anansi on Sept 2, 2024 7:31:18 GMT -5
Interesting idea, however why would they want to liberate the local Hispano-Roman population from their Germanic Visigothic rulers, rather than raw aggression, I'd set the invasion much earlier, say the copper or bronze age to give the invading Americans better chance of both fighting off diseases and Iron harden weapons , let's say our Americans were from Caral Supe, 3000-2500 BC. pre Incan civilization from Peru, since this would be the ending of the neolithic it would give them a chance to introduce certain crops like the potatoes, tomato, Maize and cotton and those big pig like creatures, perhaps the llamas as pack animals, although that would be a bit too early, as they were associated with later Andean civilizations, would've been interesting to see them meet the folks of Stonehenge and trading with the folks of Ta-Seti of that era, opening up a proto globalization. I feel that Mesoamerican civilizations would have an easier time accessing the Old World via the Atlantic than civilizations on the Pacific coast of South America. Maybe the Olmecs could be a substitute? Yes, they'd make a better substitute, and the timeline would still be early enough to avoid the iron age, btw some interesting scenarios about the time line of the Olmec era and possible pre-Columbian contact, remember the big Cocaine and tobacco mummy's controversy, often times we speculate that it was the so-called old world folks who made contacts, what if it was the other way around.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 7, 2024 18:52:03 GMT -5
In a secluded Mexican valley sometime during the early 20th century, these vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) are trying to wrangle a late-surviving Allosaurus! This scene was of course inspired by Ray Harryhausen’s The Valley of Gwangi, which is pretty much the quintessential cowboys-versus-dinosaurs movie. I always did like Harryhausen’s stop-motion work, which to my childhood self looked like toy dinosaurs coming to life.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 9, 2024 13:26:33 GMT -5
This warrior heroine is “surfing” her way through the jungle on mossy tree limbs! The bandages on her foot are meant to protect her soles from friction and splinters. The inspiration behind this picture was of course Disney’s Tarzan, my favorite animated film that they’ve ever done. One of these days, I really want to see a “jungle hero” character in the tradition of Tarzan who is a native African person instead of the usual stranded White dude or dudette.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 10, 2024 20:15:45 GMT -5
Couple of fan artworks for Amanra, the Nubian warrior princess-turned-queen in the game Age of Mythology:
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 14, 2024 10:56:52 GMT -5
This is my concept art for a male and female citizen from the mythical civilization of Atlantis. In this portrayal, the Atlanteans descend from a tripartite mixture of African, European, and Native American peoples, with the wealth of their civilization deriving from acting as a commercial intermediary between all three regions. It was rather fun mixing their different cultural and genetic influences together to determine their look.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 19, 2024 12:12:10 GMT -5
Another piece of fanart for Age of Mythology: From left to right, these heroes are the Norse Valkyrie Reginleif, the Nubian princess Amanra, the Greek warrior Ajax, and the Atlantean admiral Arkantos.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 22, 2024 18:26:04 GMT -5
This scholar-mage, who carries with her an enchanted staff that radiates heat, is leading an expedition to explore the icy wilds of the farthest north. This is more of a fantasy illustration than a historical one, of course, but I had in mind a West African (as in medieval Malian or Ghanaian) cultural flavor for these characters.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 26, 2024 17:00:40 GMT -5
Meet Bernice Smith, a character I designed back in 2018. In her original incarnation, she was a Tuskegee Airwoman fighting in World War II who crash-landed into a “lost world” with prehistoric creatures somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. I’ve kept most of those aspects for my redrawing of her, but changed the setting to the North African desert since that would be geographically closer to where the Tuskegee Airmen historically operated (and North Africa was a major battleground during WWII anyway), and I wanted a little break from the “tropical lost world with dinosaurs” setting.
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 27, 2024 6:29:41 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon S. Pilcher on Sept 29, 2024 16:21:23 GMT -5
A Natufian woman from the Mesolithic Fertile Crescent rests on a log, sulking in an annoyed mood. I drew this to cope with my own irritated mood after encountering yet another example of ignorance online, and it turned out to be quite therapeutic indeed.
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