FINAL | WORLDS | 2D | Amanith City | DeivCalviz

Name: David Villegas ( Deiv Calviz )
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SETTING: Fantasy / Medieval
NAME: Amanith City

STORY:

Amanith is known for it's huge stone arches and simple dome structures. The market city of Amanith is where races from all around the world gather to trade all sorts of goods. Amanith is ruled by the wealthy trading barons living on the highest parts of the terrain with flying ships to quickly traverse the skies. Ironically, The town is entirely dependent on outside support to survive because of the barren terrain and occasional sand storms.

Final Illustration:

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Concept Sheet:

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Thanks for viewing and good luck to everyone who entered!

Here are my initial thumbnails done in procreate. I'm leaning on number 13 because of the wild and interesting shapes. The arches can be like those found in the movie Avatar. Then I can add medieval structures maybe similar to Lindblum in Final Fantasy 9 then a market below with various people and creatures. There will be floating ships too!

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I got excited and did a colored sketch... Not yet sure about the buildings so I will go back to sketching some building designs then I will incorporate them here. I'm trying to just make this process organic by adding stuff on top so I can maintain the energy of the sketch.

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Very busy lately.. trying to figure out more details now and fixing some compositions issues.

I realized I wanted mushroom shaped buildings so I indicated some simple shapes. I don't have much time to do detailed sketches per buildings but I plan to invent the buildings on the fly while following my basic silhouettes that I sketched out.

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Thanks @ranarh and @raedrob . Time is running out! I am figuring out the buildings as I go based on the previous sketch. A lot of mushroom influence. Ill still have to design the people and market and creatures below.

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After a lot of struggling.. It's finally done! I will update the top post with the description of this scene.

I'm happy with what I was able to achieve in this because I used a different process in this image than what I am used to. Instead of layering each element separately like usual, my mindset for this was just laying paint on top of each other while rarely using the eraser tool. This process enabled me to mix around the colors in the canvas until I find happy accidents. Although it looks a bit more brushy than my usual stuff, this process is really organic and fun to do.

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Thanks a lot for the kind words! Yup I recommend this process but I want to clarify too that it doesn't necessarily mean less layers. Like you can keep adding layers on top and not looking back on older layers or merging them soon.. then if what you added didn't work out, you can just delete that topmost layer. I learned this process from Craig Mullin's patreon actually. He does things like that and its more fun.