City of Hadar [Commission]

[Eri]

A recent commission that was finalized this week. I've been working a little with perspective lately and, town building within that but had never done anything this large and detailed before. The brief was a middle eastern town with a sort of, petra influence with a few key buildings woven in. Also needed to be within a walled valley area with directions for the exits but otherwise it was pretty freeform with creating districts and placement.

Researched a little of that area of development and such, had a mood board which was nice too and then sketched from there to start. On a project this big ther is definitely a lot I'd try to do differently next time. Would be nice to have a bigger canvas to start and tae more time, although, obviously when the price is right haha. With a bigger canvas I feel like I could have detailed a little more.. like with the farmland are and maybe adding a bit more detail to the buildings. Honestly not too happy with the cavern wall styles yet either, still working on a style I like, and that looks right for me. I do a lot more top down but not much of this perspective so played around a little with linework, shadowing. Going to be practicing cavern walls in my spare time now lol. And god damn it, still don't have a brush i love just yet.

BUt yeh, was fun push the boundaries of what i was used to and branch out a little. to practice more perspective mapping.

hadar 1.3 no title.jpg

[MistyBeee]

Hmm... so many work here, Eri, and it's full of amazing ideas which makes the whole town really consistent.
Do you plan to add a title or a key ?

[Ilanthar]

Great work, Eri !
And thanks a lot for posting a high res version. I love when I can admire the details.

[Eri]

Hmm... so many work here, Eri, and it's full of amazing ideas which makes the whole town really consistent.
Do you plan to add a title or a key ?

Commision was just for the map, no extras. I did plan some space for a legend and building key but I'd already spent a lot of time on it, fa r more than I prob budgeted soooooo... I might play around with borders and all that eventually though,

There was a title but I thought getting the flat one leaves it free for people to add to their own campaigns

Great work, Eri !
And thanks a lot for posting a high res version. I love when I can admire the details.

Share and share alike haha.. Love it when others post their high res too. It's nice to study the linework, and effects used

[Tom]

Great work, pretty nice details too: the acqueduct, the market, the colosseum, you really catched the "mid-easter" style!

[mtcarpentersr]

This is nicely done. Great work on the perspective.

[J.Edward]

Awesome work Eri
A lot of interesting bits in there.

[Voolf]

Awesome city Eri.

[David Fink Barrentine]

This is fantastic, Eri. I love the immense amount of detail given throughout the city. I had an active jaw drop moment when I zoomed in on the market square with all the tents. This really is beautiful. How long did it take to do this commission? I know you said you'd like a bit more time if you do something this big again.

[Bogie]

Great map! The whole aqueduct is higher than the river and the water is going the wrong way was really bugging me until I looked at it again tonight and suddenly realized that the water in the river is flowing from right to left not left to right as I initially misinterpreted it, and the water fall is falling down into the river and agueduct and not the other way around. IT.SUDDENLY.MAKES.SENSE! Damn, I'm slow!