#fantasy cities

[spacenoirdetective]

Hitoshi Yuneda

[redd956]

Need to make a last minute fantasy city/town?

I got just the trick for you. Exaggerate a city you’re already familiar with. A hometown? Capital? Friend’s town? Exaggerate it with fantastical elements and maybe even inside jokes. Not too long needs to pass before you got a convincing fantasy city.

A small rural town known for its flowers? A secluded village swallowed by giant boughs of wildflowers, where masterful but painstakingly traditional druids live.

A city with terrible potholes and construction that never ends? Make it a city built upon massive caverns and canyons, repairing the results of constant dangerous dragon attacks.

Detroit? A city of thieves, that upon entering, with each passing hour you yourself become more and more thief-like.

Really do this! Exaggerate more than one element, and you get a place even more unlike with what you started from.

[jellisdraws]

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Keep coming back to Jack and my Cyber Fantasy WIP. Gonna keep rendering and playing with this one, test how far I can try pushing the background, maybe try going for a lineless render.

I’m having a blast with art recently and I’m so keen to try stuff and really push what I can do and learn everything I can (mostly by trial and error lmao) my official commission list keeps getting pushed back but I am accepting commissions right now so I guess hit me up if interested?

[asdaricus]

Midjourney Images. These are various cities. The first two are based on Ptolemaic Alexandria. It gives me a 'Consummation of Empire by Thomas Cole' sort of vibe. The second is ancient Athens. If you think those columns are awful, you should see Midjourney attempt Corinthian capitals. It doesn't. It can't do them to save its life. The fourth is based upon a monastery in Meteora, Greece. The last is a middle-eastern city in the desert. I hope that some day Midjourney will know how to do the details of traditional architecture.

[seedlinggames]

The Bones of the City

Originally posted to my blog. Photos also mine.

Cities are most often written about by princes. The princes of the city think it is something that can be tamed, like a farmer who owns a cow and fattens it up for the slaughter. The city feeds on its surroundings, and grows fatter, and the princes lick their lips. They place their crown on the city's coins and the city's flag, but they will never be the city. They will never even own the city. They will fight and kill over it, and when they are gone the city will still be there. When one day the city dies, their names will be forgotten and the city will haunt the land until the last tower falls into ruin.

A city is a wild thing, uncontrollable. A massive chaotic entity that teems with boundless life; building, dreaming, plotting, loving and killing. But that's a subject for another post. Today I'm going to talk about a city's bones.

There are places in the city that are still wild. A hill too rocky, a ravine too deep to build on, where the birds and the wildflowers come in spring. Some of these wild places are hidden. Silt that shifts and hides shipwrecks under the foundations of palaces. Sewers that were once hewn out of stone with strength and steel, and are now lush and green and alive. The wilderness is not outside the city.

The princes believe that a city is an engine for conquering the wilderness. But you cannot conquer the wilderness. The wilderness is in the city's bones.

In the park is a tree whose twisted branches are older than the first stone placed on another stone. Trees kept and cultivated for firewood hide the wild creatures that come out at night. The weeds that grow in the cobblestones are holy - follow them to a gate in an abandoned garden to find a door to the Other World.

One day you look up at a hill and find that it is bright yellow with wildflowers. Instead of walking home you walk to the top and meet a strange laughing man with flowers in his hair who doesn't leave a shadow.

There is a rock on which people write their secret dreams. The lines blend into each other over the millennia; the dreams are not so different from each other.

One evening you walk to the shores of the ocean. You look out and see it stretching from the ships and the docks and the sand beneath your feet to the very ends of the earth. Vast and cold and hungry and indifferent, the mother of all things.

When it rains, the old rivers come to life. The princes tried to straighten the road, and five houses washed away. The road has to wind like that; the bones of the city remember. Everything that happens, hangs on those bones.

People remember where to go to talk to the old gods. On the city map, it looks like a small scar, out of the way of commerce and trade. You might pass by the ravine and never notice it. But when you stand in it, you feel the beating heart of the deep forest. The bones of the city don't know the difference between a city and a wilderness. You cannot defeat them, you cannot even fight them, they simply are there, as eternal as the sun and the sea.

[ichimakesart]

Watching griffons fly.

Close ups.

Tanit - @sayonaramidnight

Kalian - npc father figure

Monkey King

Viktoria - @mayaminamoto

Lia - @gonikonata

Samir - @whispering-jabberwocky

Dmed by @raceofhearts

[cultantumcampaign]

Kain's Keep

One of the stranger towns in Cultantum just because its the most normal appearing on the surface. One of the only locations where common races are the majority of citizens, Kain's Keeps mainly consists of elves, dwarves, gnomes, tieflings, and humans. There are of course the more monsterous and uncommon races there are well. The reason for the strange population is because Kain's Keep is the only city in Cultantum still ruled by a vampire. So the population from before the fall of the vampires never changed. Kain Van York helped Olberic with his over throw of the vampires and now is Baron of Kain's Keep. Kain's Keep is an incredibly peaceful town. Taxes are extremely low because Kain instead has a blood tax. Once a month the citizens fill a vile with their own blood and send it to the Baron to keep him fed. In return Kain uses his own money to keep Kain's Keep in beautiful working condition. The farms of the keep are very rich. Homeless and poverty are extremely low. Kain's Keep is known for its food production, specifically its wine, chocolate and pretzels are some of the finest in all of Andnya.

[upsurgecomic]

Nice splash page. We’ll see you on Monday! Have a nice weekend, people.