Seems like the artist makes an effort to pull together references from artefacts, historical iconography, textual sources etc
https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1
https://www.artstation.com/jfoliveras/albums/332188
oh i've seen this guy's stuff before, it's all pretty well based on archaelogy. the dendra armor, though real, still seems like a ridiculous thing to wear lol
Afaik prior to chemical dyes the color blue could only be created from indigo and wode. When i see a lot of blue it makes me consider..... supply chains.
Red has multiple sources but i wonder what this person is thinking of.
Their other pics have men draped in the beautiful deep royal purple obtained by crushing cochneal beetles. Extremely expensive. The color schemes are similar across works even though they seems to be depicting different times places and contexts. And dont have much of the colors that are easier to obtain like brown, grey, yellow and green. So i guess its the artists asthetic. ?
they use very vibrant colors, for sure. but they are depicting mostly high status individuals, these aren't meant to be common people in regular everyday clothing
here's a reply where he mentions purple https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1/status/1705491453051281682#m
and some where he mentions blue https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1/status/1708376733924167857#m https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1/status/1708029647072477656#m
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavonado
That’s awesome. The armor almost looks like a Warrior of Chaos with the horned walking tank aesthetic.
