When I am not busy with coins, I play computer games. Through these games I have met a lot of amazing people over the years. Among them a young art student from London. I asked him to do digital line drawings of the obverses of two of my coins (RRC 89/2, RRC 78/2), and I am amazed by the results, thought I'd share them with you.
Thats absolutely beautiful, really life like. And what games? I used to play a lot when i was younger. Quake, unreal tournament.
Old enough to remember those. City building games got me started, the "caesar" franchise and the "Stronghold franchise", ton of warcraft II and starcraft I on top of that. Apart from counter strike being the initial addiction, it evolved into the Blizzard universe, been a stable World of Warcraft player since it's release 16 years ago.
Nice, I've also been thinking about drawing coins or combining them somehow into art as I'm painting a bit myself. I have an idea to paint roman gods based on their attributes and how they look on coins and combine them with collecting the actual piece. Maybe a really weird way of collecting but then I can combine two hobbies. I work in the games industry and also love city builder games. I've been playing a lot of Anno 1800 lately, I can really recommend that game if you haven't tried it already. Like you I started off with the first settlers and ceasar games, of course lots of WC3 and starcraft, and Age of Empire.
Beautiful! Artists are very impressive, a skillset I don't remotely possess. I had an artist ask permission to draw one of my coins, which he captured in his unique pointillism style. https://www.instagram.com/casaltaxavier/
Great drawings, @Michael Stolt (and @AncientJoe), and it appears some nice coins too. Here's a cartoon with coin: Pamphylia, Perge, 221/0-189/8 BC, AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.0g, 1h), struck in the name and types of Alexander III, dated CY 33 (ΛΓ) Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin Rev: Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΛΓ (date) in left field; c/m: Seleukid anchor within rectangular incuse Note: Meadows (2009) makes the case for this coin being minted 191/190 BC at the end of a period of Seleucid Sponsored freedom for Perge that began in 222/223 BC and ended with Antiochus' defeat by Rome in the Battle of Magnesia.
Stunning 16 litrae! How do you do the photographs? I use Corel Photopaint but am not aware of that kind of effect.
