Province of Serlia

[PeriphReal]

Well, I was doing some worldbuilding yesterday and I must say, I've found myself down quite the rabbit hole.

Idea is there's a city placed in a mountainous shelter from the sea. Island chains create a bay of sorts, and a great river empties out into the bay in an estuary.

One of the islands is large, and is the setup of some sort of merchant guild/commercial zone trying to do some tax avoidance by placing itself away from the political center of the city

Trying to build a world in some magic-future esque setting. I want to reflect that in the eventual city. I'm thinking of maybe getting in some sort of city-scape. I want to figure out some sort of architecture for it.

Want to include some small treats like a lighthouse and a couple ships on the water.

Using a elevated downward perspective on this one which makes it look like a landscape drawing. I've been thinking about cities in 3 dimensions in my worldbuilding, so I want to try to occupy some vertical space or convey some kind of z directional information somehow in this.

I want color as well. So, I want to try to convert this to digital later. That will help fix any mistakes I make in sketching, or let me make any changes in vision.

And the final challenge: discipline to carry this out to the end. Let's see what I can do

Alright, here's my sketch, got a bunch of ideas on paper

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[Bogie]

Welcome to the challenge PeriphReal!! Excellent starter sketch! Looking forward to seeing this develop.

[PeriphReal]

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I just got my first touchpad. (woot). Been trying it out. This is maybe 20-30 hours of work since last update.

lots of work to be done still. The populous areas have been requiring a ton of detailing and time. I definitely had a vision that is a challenge for me.

Probably am going to work on putting more "harbor" in this map soon, since that's probably important

[Bogie]

Love the building/city sketches!

[PeriphReal]

Well, some more progress. I think I hit a point where I'm at a good place to stop with a lot of the linework. Not enough time to put more detail in. I want to think about coloring, texturing, and some map details such as labels.

I love the parchment, but I can't get it to compromise with what I have right now. Usually I'd overlay, but overlay doesn't give me enough color saturation/darkness that I want.

I'm liking the darker colors. I'll probably try to tone down the whites and lights and make things moody.
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[NarramoreArt]

Also loving the building sketches. and the darker colours give i a rather moody vibe

[PeriphReal]

Well, I'm just not good at deadlines I'll have to call it here.

[Bogie]

Looking good!