My collection is going to be from an image library I have created for a project that is not academic in nature, however it falls into the domain of two previous academic disciplines I have been involved with: Politics (BA UC Santa Cruz 1993) and Graphic Design (AA Platt College 1998). So this is for a web comic that is history-based on ancient history. So far I've drawn 132 pages of this thing (about a quarter of the whole project I have outlined), of course this is done when I'm not filling my time with grad school, working, parenting and sleeping. To illustrate the ancient world, you need to know what people looked like, what they wore, where they lived and what they did and you need to draw them all convincingly. There is a great deal of archeological and artistic evidence out there, it's just a matter of knowing EVERYTHING and creating a database of visual reference. My real visual reference has about 50 directories and each of those have about ten items on average, so there's a lot of content I could deal with. I'll try to keep it to the suggested 15 items.
I have a lot of jpegs, I also have some text files including character briefs and descriptions of historic events taken from primary and secondary sources, but mostly jpegs. I am realizing I have some ancient music, maybe eventually I could embed music into my final product? I'll see what I can do about managing some MP3s, but I'm feeling they will be strictly an option.
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