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The Sketchening - Part 6
🕑 Added 2019-04-16 06:46:51 +0000 UTCThis one is mostly just a buildings idea I did as a warm-up. Sometimes when I'm not sure what I want to draw I'll break out a perspective ruler and start layering up a building in some fantasy city. This time around it was a book-store/candle store.
I'm not entirely sure where this would be in the world. Its a Lorrnathi store (hence the faux old Fruthark language structure on the building signs, and the equinal woman on the 'billboard'). I've always wanted to give a bit of a mix of more modernistic ideas into fantasy realms. While its easy to just plunk down a ton of thatched roof buildings with timbers crossing its fascade and build up an interesting city, I always thought there would be a 'magic as science' in Felwroth itself. An idea that larger cities have a more cosmopolitan feeling with cafes and newspapers with a sort of 1700's or very early 1800's feel to them. Lights would have continual lights in them, though there still would be fire-barrel-style heating 'stations' along the way.
Its not always that these concepts make it into the world, especially when its just random concepting.
That said, I hope to have the outline of the next painting to post next. It will feature a certain small Lorrnath with draconic horns, being lovely, as she always is. But I plan on getting that done before the end of the month. I apologize for being a bit slower this month as well. I've had a sleep-setback brought on by some health stuff that I'm getting taken care of, and am getting caught up on work, as well as working on taxes for the last year, and a bunch of other things (Fun!). I'm hoping to keep up the sketching though. Its proving to really keep me from getting rusty, and the reception has been pretty good!
Thank you all again for the patronage. I hope to make this worth it! I'll try to be a bit more communicative as well now that the stacking health 'debuff' has worn off.
Comments
Garry Stahl
I hear you Bear. Brick and mortar books stores have all but died out.
Garry Stahl
Just make sure it's a tea room. A "tea house" is a drug den. <a href="https://vistacity.fandom.com/wiki/Seahaven" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vistacity.fandom.com/wiki/Seahaven</a> has a heavily redacted key for the city. All the juicy GM stuff removed.
Tim J.
I think Cinders would absolutely adore those sorts of spaces, and even the Mediterranean architecture. She's only been to one sort of place before on her world (Its a cross between Spain and Morocco), but she'd go giddy-hooves for a tea-room.
Tim J.
There are a couple cities with architecture like that that I'd like to try and draw, but its admittedly intimidating as the amount of 'carved art' that goes into those buildings is nearly unsurpassed.
Tim J.
Book stores are becoming a rarity around here as well, outside of one large (and sadly pretty sparsely stocked) chain here I can't remember the last little space I've seen for books. And indeed, much of the packing material for places like this goes to the various fire-keepers through the city, some for the temple of the Dancer in the Flames (A Deity of fire and grace), others simply carried throughout by the Lantern-lighters and other guilds who keep fires going along city routes, both for warmth and for light, especially in the less 'upper classed' areas.
David J.
I'm a huge fan of dark, Gothic architecture myself. But this is cool.
Perfesser Bear
I like the place already <i>(I can hardly find a bookshop in <b>my</b> world)</i> and the fire-barrels serve another purpose, beyond warming prospective clients and the occasional indigent. All shipping would be done in wooden crates -- no corrugated cardboard dropped by brown-clad delivery folk. Book stores and especially candle shops would get several in a day, and short of reusing <i>all</i> of them, what to do with that scrap wood? <i>Hmm...</i> A fancy porcelain candle lantern with glass globes, carefully packed in sawdust and wood shavings (from cutting up all that wood).
Garry Stahl
You keep doing this. Paralleling me in interesting ways. My cities do use some half timbered structures, but it's slate roofing even flat roofing. Your bookstore would not be out of place in Seahaven. It is more a Mediterranean city with white washed walls. They have the printing press and the continual lights. But it is Tea Rooms not Cafes as coffee is hideously expensive. I try for a more renaissance feel to my world. Renaissance fantasy, and yes, Magic as science. I would hope that a certain Cinders would find the place charmingly exotic.
