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sforzesco · 24 days ago

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AKHENATEN

uhhh let's see. I combined some sketches I did of Nefertiti and Akhenaten and ended up somewhere here for an Akhenaten design. in my heart, it's for a comic but there's so much visual research I'd have to do before I could even think about approaching a comic. oof.

anyway moving on: Akhenaten was a childhood obsession! and then I moved onto other things, as one does, but then a couple months ago I decided to check out some books and now I have a headache.

Akhenaten, Ronald T. Ridley

#i did outline my ideal high stakes political drama set during this particular dynasty focusing on akhenaten tho #all these historians have been just. straight up saying things about this guy for centuries and while some of it is absolute nonsense #some of the other stuff makes for EXCELLENT political thriller material #especially with the wider table of factions at play like yeah baby i see your father's policy style. i see you. i know what soundtrack #this kind of scene should have #ancient egypt tag #GOD there was a sword and sandals film that had their set design take notes from ancient egypt over ancient greece #and it was SUCH a cool meta narrative esp when you consider Egypt's impact on all the Mediterranean empires #like yes YES if the roman sword and sandal movies had a spine they'd do it too

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