I guess this is a pretty ghastly image. But history is made of ghastly stuff, I guess. I've got so many ideas for historical images, - that is my favorite topic, so it's not easy to choose. But this is London 1665, - the Great Plague. I guess the title of the image, when it's done, would be *Bring out your Dead* Thoughts, comments, critiques etc. is very much wanted. I wasn't sure, so just in case I checked the radiobox for "both" nudity and violence.

I like it. Maybe emaciate the corpse a little, and tweak her texture to give her that not so freshly dead look. ;) Looks good so far!

"But I'm not dead yet" "Shut up, you'll be stone dead in a minute" Sorry just couldn't resist,......nice work so far.

I agree that tweaking her texture map might be in order. According to Historic-UK.com "Bubonic Plague was known as the Black Death and been known in England for centuries. It was a ghastly disease. The victim's skin turned black in patches and inflamed glands or 'buboes' in the groin combined with compulsive vomiting, swollen tongue and splitting headaches made it a horrible, agonizing killer."

Now I know Bryster will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe windows with large panes of plate-glass were a rarity in England until the latter-half of the 17th century when it was introduced by the French.

I think the woman should look more like she's dead. Maybe make the man rutn around so he's pushing instead of pulling. That way you could make him look creepy so he's the personification of death. Or maybe add Binky? skin turned black in patches and inflamed glands or 'buboes' in the groin combined with compulsive vomiting, swollen tongue and splitting headaches actually sounde fun :p sorry, just my twisted dark humor...

The comments stand. I'd add that you'd need to tweak the light a bit. This looks too much like a spotlight. BTW, where did you get the habit? I'd need one for something unrelated.

Danamo: You are of course correct! Glass was very expensive during this time and 'float-glass'- the type used in the pic - had not been invented. Panes of glass were little squares/rectangles about 6 x 4 or 8 x 6 - something like that- and many were 'bottle-ends', they looked like the bottom of a wine bottle. Also, bay windows were mostly 'bowed' outwards - certainly on the ground floors, although Britt could get away with the ones he's using if he replaces the glass. The road needs to be re-thought too. Cobbles were used extensively at this time and although this looks 'stoney', cobbles always had a slight sheen to them. Finally, the cracks in the walls go right through the glass in the windows...as if Britt just plonked the glass on the walls without boolean a hole through the walls... Hope this helps. The Bryster

Plague comes in three forms from the same bacterium, bubunic, septacemic, and pnuemonic. The bubonic is caused by a fleabite and has all the horrible symptoms, swellings in the armpits and groin that go black. Pneumonic is when the epidemic runs rampant and enough bacteria is produced into the air that people get infected by inhaling it. This form kills so fast that there are no buboes(swellings). Victims of this form would have a fever a sneezing fit and die. There are large reservoirs of bubonic plague bacteria in native rodents in the western United States