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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK CYL Mayan blue
« Last post by Zetina on Wed, 11 November 2026, 09:41:15 »To be honest, I have a lot of criticism of the Maya side of this set. The colorway looks nice, but I don’t see any real connection between it and Maya culture at all.
1. Why is the colorway a mono blue set? Most of the mayan murals use red, green, yellow and the brown from the clay for most of the art, why choose blue as the main color?
2. Continuing with the colorway, in Maya murals, ceramics and sculpture, blue shows up mostly as an accent for sky, water and background made with a mix from the añol pigment and mineral clay, the shade changes with the recipe and how it was heated, most of the time the color is not as teal as you are showing but much more of a muted sky blue.
3. Which Maya calendar are the glyphs on the novelties from? They don’t look to be from the Haab or the Tzolk’in, so they just look like generic “Maya-style” glyphs found on google to me. You also say numerals like 7 and 13 differ between sources and that you took inspiration from “various references and articles” Which ones references? Head-variant numerals change a lot between site and periods
4. You say you’re bringing Maya culture to the set, but all you show is the numeral system and the calendar. There’s nothing from the architecture, the mythology or the folklore.
Honestly, it feels like you found a color called “Maya blue”, grabbed the first thing a quick search gave you about the culture, and built the novelties from that. I see no research and no respect.
The set doesn’t reflect Maya culture in any way. Maya culture has a huge amount to offer as a theme, so seeing it reduced to a color name and a few numerals with zero real research behind it appalls me to be honest, I respect the fact that you might want to make a set using this color but randomly relating it to a culture without doing due research is not the way to do it.
1. Why is the colorway a mono blue set? Most of the mayan murals use red, green, yellow and the brown from the clay for most of the art, why choose blue as the main color?
2. Continuing with the colorway, in Maya murals, ceramics and sculpture, blue shows up mostly as an accent for sky, water and background made with a mix from the añol pigment and mineral clay, the shade changes with the recipe and how it was heated, most of the time the color is not as teal as you are showing but much more of a muted sky blue.
3. Which Maya calendar are the glyphs on the novelties from? They don’t look to be from the Haab or the Tzolk’in, so they just look like generic “Maya-style” glyphs found on google to me. You also say numerals like 7 and 13 differ between sources and that you took inspiration from “various references and articles” Which ones references? Head-variant numerals change a lot between site and periods
4. You say you’re bringing Maya culture to the set, but all you show is the numeral system and the calendar. There’s nothing from the architecture, the mythology or the folklore.
Honestly, it feels like you found a color called “Maya blue”, grabbed the first thing a quick search gave you about the culture, and built the novelties from that. I see no research and no respect.
The set doesn’t reflect Maya culture in any way. Maya culture has a huge amount to offer as a theme, so seeing it reduced to a color name and a few numerals with zero real research behind it appalls me to be honest, I respect the fact that you might want to make a set using this color but randomly relating it to a culture without doing due research is not the way to do it.
