Weird thematic problems
Jul. 4th, 2012 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brushwolfIt says something about how Egyptian mummies have been overdone that given a choice, I'd rather draw a bog body or a Chinese mummy of some sort. I love New Kingdom stuff! I figure I'll do two drawings and submit both to this guy, since he's fairly easy going.
Thing is, most mummified bodies in the real world might pass for zombies. Even if I could successfully show that a Celtic type had been ritually killed three times, or include a stylized burned oat cake as the background, would anyone other than me go "oooh, bog body"? I can imagine all sorts of fun fantasy scenarios with a hugely bloated Han dynasty matron rising from her coffin of mercury and spices to lumber forwards towards the PCs, or adventurers panicking as their weapons glance off the gleaming panels of a jade burial suit, but I don't think anyone's going to look at that and go "mummy"!
Thing is, most mummified bodies in the real world might pass for zombies. Even if I could successfully show that a Celtic type had been ritually killed three times, or include a stylized burned oat cake as the background, would anyone other than me go "oooh, bog body"? I can imagine all sorts of fun fantasy scenarios with a hugely bloated Han dynasty matron rising from her coffin of mercury and spices to lumber forwards towards the PCs, or adventurers panicking as their weapons glance off the gleaming panels of a jade burial suit, but I don't think anyone's going to look at that and go "mummy"!