Welcome to the challenge SC, interesting backstory.
Jan/Feb Lite Challenge: The Totem Spheres of Nascimento
As I was slowly working on a world map for one world I have been building I got an inspiration to highlight this Ancient Wonder of the World for the challenge.
Inspired by: Wuxia (an inspiration in most of my work), the writing of Gene Wolfe and a lot of post-singularity futurism. Also a drawing I don't know that was on the wall in the staircase in Moe's Books.
The world is a far-future world where technology is so advanced its invisible. The world is "skinned" in a combination of Chinese wuxia with South American and other motifs. Nanobot swarms co-exist with the natural atmosphere in a symbiotic fashion. Almost all humans have generations old nanobot systems in their body mostly dormant. Accessing the power of the nanobot systems is called mastering Qi and is like the martial arts masters in wuxia fiction.
The Totem Spheres are five giant spheres that sit on a mostly agricultural and isolated from world politics peninsula created during a previous generation's culture when then peninsula was more prominent (speculation from scholars). Each sphere is a different surface and they are progressively more difficult to scale using lightness skills*
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* Lightness Skill (轻功 qīnggōng) – often left untranslated as “Qinggong”. The ability to lighten the body and move with great agility & swiftness. At high proficiency, practitioners of this skill can run across water, leap to the top of trees, or even glide through the air.
Last edited by Southern Crane; 01-27-2018 at 06:06 PM.
Welcome to the challenge SC, interesting backstory.
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A small but significant for me update.
Finally worked out a mountain I like that has the ambiance of what I am going for. I also have been drawing a lot of mini-trees to use for different projects as I am a tree aficionado. One goal for 2018 for me is to draw 999 different mini trees like this to use on maps. I haven't worked out the scale that is best and I probably will need to start coloring before I finalize that but I want to try to get my own single tree-forest style for this
Completed: Mountain style, Tree styles
To Do:
Forest integration and composition
River Depiction
Background of the Spheres inset
Play around with depiction of the different spheres
### Latest WIP ###Totem-Sphere-Land-Map.jpg
Oh I like the mountains, SC
Great to see you going for it again
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Nice Update.
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An update with working on the colors. Still tweaking the style a bit hopefully I can finish this up in some form in the next week
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Last edited by Southern Crane; 02-07-2018 at 11:08 PM.
Nice color palette. ( doesn't that sound like I know what I'm talking about? I really don't
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I agree, lovely color palette.
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Originally Posted by XCali
I agree, lovely color palette.
Thanks XCali.
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Another update with some work on the inset Spheres. Unsure if this is my final idea for them but getting close
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Last edited by Southern Crane; 02-09-2018 at 11:17 PM.
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