ASÍ es como la diseñadora gráfica BECCA SALADIN actualiza el PASADO

¿Alguna vez has imaginado 💬🗯 qué aspecto tendrían ahora iconos históricos como Nefertiti, Julio César o Ana Bolena?

¿Pasarían desapercibidos en nuestra época? 🔥😎

Probablemente, seríamos incapaces de distinguirlos, por muchos imágenes suyas que hayamos visto en los libros de historia. 

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This bust of Nefertiti is famous for its grace and beauty. Nefertiti lived from approximately 1370 – 1330 BC. She was an Egyptian queen and the wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Akhenaten is famous for his attempt to transition Egypt into a monotheistic society (worshipping only the sun god, Aten), instead of a polytheistic one. I've been wanting to complete this comparison of Nefertiti for some time, as I've always been drawn to the beauty of this bust, which is believed to have been sculpted during her lifetime. This one was difficult and took some time, mostly because it's 50% digital reconstruction, considering the bust doesn't have eyes and has some pieces flaking off or missing. Hope you all enjoy – this has been one of my favorites. . . . #EgyptianHistory #QueenNefertiti #Nefertiti #Pharaohs #Akhenaten #KingTut #PhotoshoppedHistory #RoyaltyNow #RoyalHistory #EgyptianRulers #RulersofHistory #King #Queen #AncientHistory #TheNile #HistoryofEgypt #1300BC #egypt #egyptian #egyptianpharaohs #egyptiangoddess #egyptianmuseum

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Esto es lo que pretende demostrar la artista y diseñadora gráfica Becca Saladin. Así surge Royalty Now, una cuenta de Instagram, 📱👑 en la que célebres personajes históricos se transforman en personas actuales, que cualquiera podríamos encontrar por la calle un día de estos.

Todo comenzó hace aproximadamente un año, cuando, en su tiempo libre, la diseñadora decidió comprobar qué ocurría si vestía a Ana Bolena, ☠⚰ uno de sus personajes favs, con ropa actual y le añadía un makeup millennial. El resultado fue de lo más esclarecedor. 💥👽

“Le puse un atuendo moderno, pinté sobre sus pestañas y cejas y le puse maquillaje, y me encantó el resultado. Lucía como una persona mucho más cercana después de esa intervención. Después de eso comencé a hacer otras figuras, y abrí la cuenta de Instagram para compartir mi trabajo con otros amantes de la historia”.    – Becca Saladin

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I hope nobody here will get tired of my Anne Boleyn posts…she is my favorite historical figure so you may get quite a few 🙂 Many people asked me last time I posted Anne if I really thought her features (specifically her lips) were really that delicate – and I don’t think they were. Tudor portraiture often de-emphasized these features, so I modified my finished version to reflect what I think is probably her more likely appearance. Since it’s the holiday season, one of my favorite ghost stories is the story of Anne appearing underneath the great oak tree at Hever Castle, her childhood home, every Christmas day. Do you all have a favorite historic ghost story? Hope you all have a great holiday season! 🎄🎄 . Credit for left image: Wikimedia Commons, United States Public Domain, right image base: © Glenn Francis, www.pacificprodigital.com

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👉🗣Tras este primer experimento, Saladin se dio cuenta de que transformar retratos antiguos en imágenes actuales hacía posible no solo desarrollar nuevas áreas de la creatividad, sino que convertía a estos iconos en personas cercanas a nosotros, permitiendo así conocer mejor su historia.

Puede parecer muy sencillo, pero la transformación de cualquiera de estos rostros supone unas cuantas horas de trabajo e investigación previos. ⛔📚

Becca suele centrarse en los ojos, piel y cabello. Aunque siempre procura encontrar tanta información como sea posible, a veces no lo logra. 👄🔮 Cleopatra, por ejemplo, fue uno de los personajes más solicitados, pero resultó muy complicado llegar a un resultado satisfactorio, puesto que tenemos pocos datos sobre su apariencia física. En casos como este, la autora opta por tomarse algunas libertades creativas.💎💫👁

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I’ve been resisting doing Cleopatra for some time, simply because there aren’t many reliable depictions of her, and most descriptions of her by historians were made after her death. However, I’ve gotten so many requests for her, I wanted to give you all what you’ve been asking for 🥰 . . The closest thing we have are Roman busts from the first century BCE, around the time that Cleopatra would have been visiting Rome. I chose to base my recreation off of the Berlin Bust of Cleopatra, which was thought to have been created around 46-44 BCE. I chose this bust because most of the depictions of her include common features – a strong nose, full lips, and small chin. It’s also hard to tell what her skin & hair colors were – most descriptions describe her as dark haired and “honey-skinned”, but some even say she was a redhead. Consider this my “Artist’s Rendition” of a way that she could have possibly looked. Bottom line, Cleopatra was an amazing woman. She was intelligent, witty, spoke several languages, and was incredibly skilled in diplomacy. I really enjoyed learning more about her during research for this recreation! . . Further Research & Reading about her looks: . Encyclopedia Britannica article on what Cleopatra looked like: https://www.britannica.com/story/what-did-cleopatra-look-like . Some other reconstructions of Cleopatra: https://mysticalraven.com/art/11764/scientists-reveal-what-cleopatra-really-looked-like . Ancient Egyptian Mummy Genome article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459999/ . Wikipedia entry on the Egyptian Race Controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy . . . #Cleopatra #AncientEgypt #Sculpture #MarkAntony #JuliusCaesar #Photoshop #RoyalFamily #History #Royalty #EuropeanArt #EuropeanHistory #Drawing #GraphicDesign #HistoryMemes #Portrait #ArtRestoration #DigitalArt #ArtOnInstagram #HistoryNerd

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“Reconstruyo los retratos de los bustos usando pedazos de otras imágenes—narices, ojos, labios, etc. de otras fuentes que manipulo para que se ajusten al personaje” revela. Muchas veces dibujo digitalmente detalles como pestañas, cejas, arrugas y el color de la piel”.   – Becca Saladin

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Julius Caesar. This was a fun one that took some time and I’ve been really excited to share. I think he has a very regal look about him – what do you guys think? . Left image: public domain, right image base: Kirk McCoy, Los Angeles Times

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