I was going to do an interior design sheet and a illustrative painting, but I think I’ll save that for a later date. This was mainly to try my fingers at Google’s 3D tool, SketchUp. I then used the 3D model as a base to draw/paint over.It was tricky at first but I got there in the end, at least on a basic level. However, It's quite clear I need to brush up on my building painting skills.
This is the Baron Tower, that features in the prologue of my story I'm writing and briefly, later on as a ruin. It’s were the mother of the main character was shot down and rather symbolic in a number of ways (details of which I’ll not bore you all with).It was interesting trying to think in terms of cultural influences and purpose to a building. This was, to begin with, built to be a watch tower, but turn into an arrogant status symbol of Man’s dominion over nature. The Bron (the land of whom the settlers descended from) have certain features in their architecture that I had to bring into this. In Bron their buildings are made of redstone and feature arches and round ornate windows. In Fëylonn they had no access to redstone, but they make do with other material.
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