Merry Christmas

[rowyn]

Religious thingie.

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[the-vulture.livejournal.com]

And Merry Christmas to you, too!

[rowyn]

I hope the solstice was good to you. I admit I'm looking forward to longer days! It's so hard to get up in the dark.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Ah, dear friend, your spirit is showing. I like it.

Nicely done.

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

Thank you, sir.

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalm 50:13-15)

[rowyn]

It doesn't seem like a very equitable trade, does it? But I daresay He isn't into retaliatory gift-giving. :)

Merry Christmas

[jimmy-hollaman.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas to you as well. May it be a wonderfull new year for you...

Re: Merry Christmas

[rowyn]

I rather expect it will be. I hope the coming year will be much better to you than this last one has. *hug*

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas, Rowyn.

[rowyn]

Thanks, Chip. And a Happy New Year for you! :)

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas :)

And that is excellent artwork....

[rowyn]

Thank you! I think I even sort of look like me in the last two panels. I originally wanted to draw Jesus as an actual person standing next to me. But I wimped out. I know that if I drew Him as the traditional brown-bearded-long-haired-Caucasian, He'd be reasonably recognizable as Jesus. But I also know that Jesus almost certainly wasn't Caucasian, and I'm not yet sure how I feel about portraying Him as one. On the one hand, I dislike inaccuracy. On the other, well, it's an artistic shorthand, so to speak, and the shape of His face or the color of His skin isn't particularly important, is it?

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

To the untrained eye, ethnic Hebrew can pass off as Caucasian.

It's certainly less of an artistic license than drawing both Mary and baby Jesus as Korean ethnicity. (cf. Makovette's Samsung post.)

I hesitate to think of the artistic skill required for a non-native to accurately caricature the ethnic difference between Serbs and Croats.

[rowyn]

It's true that whatever I attempted to do in caricature would not look terribly ethnic no matter what.

But on a related note, I do find myself wondering what people of various regions looked like 2000 years ago. I know Cleopatra, for example, was supposedly blond -- which shouldn't be too surprising, given how inbred her line was, but it's still a reminder that our preconceptions based on racial makeup today aren't necessarily correct for past millenia. My father is ethnically Jewish, but definitely looks Caucasian.

Are there good sources for this sort of information, do you know? Greek and Roman statuary presumably gives a good clue about facial features for those peoples. But I don't know of any other realistic traditions in art, pre-Renaissance.

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

[sources of information]
I've never needed to know about this, specifically.

However, casual use of search engines indicates:

• Herodotus, Tacitus, and Josephus did include some ethnographic information.
• This is an entire field of academic study. I'm having trouble quickly getting autoauthoritative sources via "ancient ethnography" on Google, however.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Awww. };) *hugs*

[rowyn]

*hugs back* :)

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Sweet. =:)