Hey guys, I've kind of taken a break from Steemit for a while, but I will have more tutorial video's coming in my "Learn Art with Me" series. I've been a bit under the weather and with that comes lots of lounging on the couch and, in this particular case, going down a dark hole of YouTube documentaries.

But before I go into that, let me explain what in the world this is:

I'm part of an art "accountability" (and shaming) group with Hive account@kommienezuspadt and Hive account@bryan-imhoff; each week we have to provide progress we have made in our respective comics that are in the works; if we fail then we have to pay 25 Steem to the other members.

Personally I'm working on a comc that exists in the Hive account@steempunk-net world; which is being written by @Jedau and I'm really excited to see the story he creates, and of course I'm also excited to start the art for it! It will be interesting because I have never done the comic style before, so I'm currently practicing that. But I'm also not limiting myself and looking at the art of different graphic novels there are many art styles out there and so I look forward to finding my own style - even if it isn't traditional comic style.

So this week our group actually decided to do something a little bit different; Hive account@kommienezuspadt suggested we do something he referred to as "exquisite corpse"; I had never actually heard of it but it sounded fun; below is an example he provided:

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As you can see it is divided up into different portions; each person takes a different section of the body and then they are compiled together. As you can see, I was given the head portion. Hive account@bryan-imhoff has the torso and Hive account@kommienezuspadt has the lower section. I'm excited to see what the other two guys come up with. I have a feeling it will be nothing like what I ended up doing, but hey, I think that makes it more fun. I will post the finished piece as well.

Back to the documentaries on YouTube. I have long been fascinated with ancient Egypt and also megalithic structures - primarily because we know so little about the megalithic structures but it seems to show evidence of an ancient civilization(s) that existed that were quite possibly more advanced than we were previously aware. The mainstream scientific option is that hunter gatherers created the megalithic sites and to that end it also means that they created the sites with the tools we know hunter/gatherers used, which is basically bronze chisels and saws and rocks as hammers. In my opinion, if you look at the megalithic sites, saying they created these huge structures with only bronze chisels and rocks as hammers doesn't pass the common sense test (and that isn't even taking into account that they were building with massive stones weighing between 10 and 90 tons). Now, to be very clear, I'm not one of those "ancient alien" type people.

Anyway, I can already tell i'm going to just have to make a separate post about all this; but before I close I want to show my inspiration from the megalithic buildings for the art I did for this project; here is a picture of one of the megalithic walls down in Cuzco, Peru.

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