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India 500 BC

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My drawing for India around 500 BC. Done with nothing but colored pencil. I wanted to show a bit of the caste system here, the way it works is that women can marry in their own caste or up a notch, and men can marry in their own caste or down a notch. This guy here has married down one level. Unfortunately I reached for "sand" for my intermediate tone on her when I meant to reach for "yellow ochre" and as a result she came off looking kind of metallic. That's what happens when you get ahead of yourself. During the 6th century BC Buddhism and Jainism started in India, in addition, Cyrus the great annexed part of the Indus Valley and Indian regiments were conscripted into the Persian army, equipping the Persians with war elephants.

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I feel like the landscape could have something more in it... the spaces on the bottom left and right are bugging me somehow. But the couple and their clothing are beautifully rendered! (That guy's a beefcake!@) :XD: