TulipFarthing : Middle Elamite, 1150 BCE
Terracotta figurine of a woman, 1340~1300 BCE, Louvre Museum
Statue of Queen Napir-Asu, 1300 BCE, Louvre Museum
Blue chalcedony pendant of king Shilhak-Inshushinak and his daughter, Bar-Uli, 12th century BCE, British Museum
Bingturong : Huli, 2000
John Hill, Huli Wigman in ceremonial dance attire, 2005
Louis Montrose, Tribal Encoun...
2025-10-28 10:32:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This time, I tried a vintage poster-like style inspired by Fox Popvli’s artworks. I’m still not sure whether this worked out well or not, though.
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Antisuyu, the ‘eastern quadrant’, was the eastern part of the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire, ‘Realm of the Four Parts’) which bordered on the modern-day western Amazonia.
The Incas divided their empire into four regions (suyu):
Tonatiuh is the sun deity of the Nahuas. More specifically, he is the current sun in Nahua cosmology. The Nahua believed that the world had been created multiple times (four or five times depending on accounts). Tonatiuh is the last and current one. Mexica sources added the well-known narrative that the humble deity Nanahuatl sacrificed himself to become a new sun.
Tezcatlipoca is a trickster and supreme deity in Nahua religion. He played many central r...
2025-10-10 03:09:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Moon Rabbit is featured in East Asian and indigenous American folklore. This funny coincidence is because the dark markings on the Moon looks similar to a rabbit!
In East Asia, Moon Rabbit is often associated with the full moon during the Autumn equinox. Since today is Chuseok [추석, Korean variant of Mid-Autumn Festival], I drew the Korean moon rabbit pounding a rice cake with a jeolgu [절구, mortar and pestle]. He is wearing a typical Joseon period peasant cloth.
In Mesoam...
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Hyenafur : Etruscan, 400 BCE
Murals from Tomba dell’Orco, Tarquinia, Italy. 470~450 BCE
Murals from Tomba degli Scudi, Tarquinia, Italy. 350~325 BCE
Etruscan Gold earrings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4th~early 3rd century BCE
Raffaele D’Amato, Andrea Salimbeti, The Etruscans 9th-2nd Centuries BC, Osprey, 2018
BoredomTool : Bulgar...
2025-09-27 16:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Two noblewomen, Remojadas Culture, Early to mid Classic period (300-700 AD)
The Remojadas culture flourished on the Mexican Gulf Coast (primarily central Veracruz) during the Classic period. They are particularly known for their detailed ceramic figurines, which this drawing is also based on.
Two women are wearing the long skirt and a round top. It is similar to quechquemitl in the sense that it has an opening in the center and is worn like a poncho. However, it i...
2025-09-19 14:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Tlazolteotl is an important goddess of the Nahua people. She is often described as the goddess of sex, lust, and infidelity. However, she is also revered as a mother goddess, linked with fertility, childbirth, weaving, and healing. She also took charge of forgiving and cleansing all humans’ wrongdoings and ‘filth,’ hence her other name, Tlaelcuani (Eater of Filth).
Her appearance here is largely based on Codex Laud. Her distinctive features are as...
2025-09-11 06:22:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are some of the depictions of Huehuecoyotl from various codices.
1. Codex Borgia p.10
This is one of the most sexually explicit images from all Mesoamerican codices. Huehuecoyotl is completely nude apart from his headdress; his penis is exposed and ready to penetrate a male human whose hair is grabbed by the coyote. This man is also shown with his genitals exposed, further emphasizing that this scene depicts homosexual intercourse.
Huehuecoyotl’s headdress is similar ...
2025-09-02 15:26:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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TulipFarthing : Ur, 2300 BCE
Gold Finger Rings from the Tomb of Puabi, Royal Cemetery of Ur, 2600 BCE, British Museum
Ceramic Cup, Nippur, 2600-2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Necklace of Gold and Lapis Lazuli, Royal Cemetery of Ur, 2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gypsum Statue of Shaven Man, 2500 BCE, British Museum
Gold Dagger, Royal Cemetery of Ur, 2450 BC...
2025-08-31 15:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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BoredomTool1 : Spain, 1503
Armor of King Ferdinand of Castille and Aragon, 1490-1500, Kunsthistoriches Museum Vienna
Felipe Bigarny, The Main Altarpiece of the Royal Chapel of Granada, 1522
Hendrik Jacobus Vinkhuizen, Collection of Military Uniforms Vol. 703, late 19th century
Terence Wise, Richard Hook, William Walker, Medieval Heraldry, 1980
John M....
2025-07-27 08:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ll be drawing Nahua (Aztec) deities as anthro, and this one is the first of them.
Xochipilli and Xochiquetzal are closely related deities. They both bear the name Xochitl (Flower) and are associated with beauty, pleasure, and fertility. It is suggested that they might be a couple based on dualism, which is crucial in Mesoamerican mythology. Several pre-Hispanic codices, such as Codex Borgia and Codex Fejervary-Mayer, depict them as...
2025-07-23 17:06:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Cosmo Cassamassa : Tang dynasty China, 750
Zhang Xuan, Spring Outing of the Tang Court, 752
Female figurine from a Tang dynasty tomb in Zhongbao, Shaanxi History Museum, 8th century
글림자, 일러스트로 보는 중국 복식 문화와 역사 1: 하상주부터 송나라까지, 혜지원, 2022
Gorrister : Yamato, 550
Gold earring from the Hihaizuk...
2025-06-28 17:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
King Pyeongwon (re. 559~590) of Goguryeo
King Pyeongwon (평원왕) was a remarkable ruler who saved Goguryeo from collapsing due to civil war and foreign invasions. He faced rising challenges from all directions. Silla, under the conquering king Jinheung, had crushed Baekje and was now turning its forces to Goguryeo. Pyeongwon chose not to confront Silla, instead acknowledging its territorial advances. Instead, he focused on the western front by forging peace with the ...
2025-06-16 07:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
King Wideok (re. 554~598) of Baekje
King Wideok (위덕왕) was a competent monarch who saved Baekje from the brink of an end. During the campaign at Gwansanseong, the Silla army captured and killed King Seong (re. 523~554), his own father. This disaster haunted Wideok for the rest of his life because he was the one who insisted on attacking Silla in the first place.
Silla and Goguryeo never gave a break to the new king and swiftly invaded Baekje again. To escape ...
2025-06-09 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hyenafur : Later Lê dynasty Vietnam, 1680
Sekai Jinbutsu Emaki (世界人物圖巻), 1714
Huang Qing Zhigong Tu (皇清職貢圖), 1769
Saito Kan, Yanagawa Shigenobu, Kaigai shoto zusetsu (海外諸島図説), 1854
Vietnam Centre, Weaving a Realm, Comicola, 2019
Anyknown : Scythian, 300 BCE
Gim Inpyeong and his lord, King Jinheung (re. 540~576).
King Jinheung (진흥왕) is regarded as one of Silla's greatest conquerors. As a cunning and ruthless monarch, he always secured the triumph by carefully manipulating the political relations between the neighboring states.
The king's regalia is based on the artifacts from the Cheonmachong (천마총) tomb, which dates around ...
2025-05-28 15:06:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Lady Amastri ordering her servants after reading a report from her farm.
Amastri is a noblewoman from Elam (modern-day southwestern Iran). She descended from the line of local Elamite dynasts intermarried with Persian nobles who had settled in the region since the conquest of Cyrus the Great in 540 BCE.
Amastri owns vast estates throughout the Empire, of which mostly concentrated in satrapies of Elam and Media. She mainly deals in agricultural products from her farm, such as wine,...
2025-05-19 14:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sakarawolf : Timucua, 1560
John White, Watercolour drawing of a Timucuan chief of Florida, 1585
Michael Johnson, American Indians of the Southeast, 1995
Ian Heath, Armies of the Sixteenth Century: The armies of the Aztec and Inca Empires, other native peoples of the Americas, and the Conquistadores 1450-1608, 1999
Bingturong : Calusa, 1560 2025-05-01 11:14:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Carpet design based on Persepolis carvings and Pazyryk rug, and paper by Giuseppe Tilia written in 1978. It is a hypothetical Achaemenid Persian carpet. I'll use this design in other drawings!
2025-04-27 15:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Vidarna is inspecting his new Greek guardsmen. The deer is Cleomenes of Halicarnassus, and the marten is Lycophron of Ephesus.
At the time, the Persian Empire controlled the Greek cities in Anatolia, including Halicarnassus and Ephesus. After the Persian War, many Greeks traveled to Persia and settled there as mercenaries, guardsmen, physicians, and satraps. Xenophon of Athens, who served the Achaemenid prince Cyrus the Younger, is a well-known example...
2025-04-26 01:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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BoredomTool : Principality of Hungary, 950
Alanic Caftan, Moshchevaja Balka, 8th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Karos Cemetery Tomb II/47, first half of the 10th century
Decorations for a Headdress, Shirt Neck, and Caftan, Orosháza, 10th century, Hungarian National Museum
Mikhail Zhirohov, David Nicolle, The Khazars: A Judeo-Turkish Empire on the Steppes, 7th-1...
2025-03-30 16:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Two noblewomen of Thebes, 1~2nd century CE, Roman Egypt
Despite being conquered by the Roman Empire in 30 BCE, ancient Egyptian culture persisted long afterwards. Mummification, in particular, continued as late as the third century CE. The so-called ‘mummy portraits’ and ‘mummy masks,’ which are made to resemble the dead and placed on their coffins, are valuable source for the period clothing of Roman Egypt.
This drawing is mostly inspired by mummy masks m...
2025-03-24 17:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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sp : Yucatec Maya, 1400
Late Classic Maya Vase K771
West Panel Relief, Temple XIX, Palenque, 734
Codex Madrid, 1250~1450
Diego de Landa, Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, 1566
Daniel Parada, Late Postclassic Lowland Maya Clothing 1450-1697, 2021
Nicky : Baekje, 372
Seven-Branched Sword (칠지도), Baekj...
2025-02-24 15:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Man smoking a tobacco, West Mexico Shaft Tomb Tradition, Jalisco, 300 CE
This is based on a figurine found in Shaft Tomb No. 3 at El Piñón, Jalisco. It depicts a man smoking tobacco while squatting with arms on his knees. Various motifs are painted in black and red on his body.
2025-02-08 13:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hyenafur : Almohad Caliphate, 1210
Lampas with griffins in roundels, 12th century, Murabitun dynasty
Kitab Bayad wa Riyad, early 13th century, Ms.Arabe 368, Vatican Library
Cantigas de Santa Maria (Codex Rico), late 13th century
David Nicolle, The Moors: The Islamic West 7th-15th Centuries AD, Osprey, 2001
Anyknown : Byzantine Empire,...
2025-01-30 04:22:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Susa was the city of the Elamite civilization, but after Cyrus II conquered Elam, it became one of the Achaemenid Empire's royal capitals. Darius I, in particular, created a palace complex rivaling that of Persepolis.
Vidarna is my Achaemenid Persian OC, set in 386 BCE. He is a Persian elite cavalryman stationed in Susa, married to a royal lady named Amastri. He is handing over a clay tablet to the "Immortal" guard. Their clothing and paraphernalia are mostly based on Alexander Mosa...
2025-01-22 13:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the timeline of my historical OCs based on their respective period!
2025-01-12 16:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Upcoming year is the year of the snake (乙巳年).
Wish you all the best for the new year!
Balhae clothing, early 8th century
