/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4721015
>[...] it is hard to tell what is city and what is Palace,for it all rises from the islands of the lake towards the sky in a stretch of gold.
The city is tightly packed and ornate

>Whole neighborhoods rest on the jeweled bridges that connect the islands together.
Maybe the poorer citizens live here.

>Gondolas and river-ships [...] watery avenues of its flooded lower dwellings.
Hmm, does that sound like any IRL place that you could look to for rerefence? Protip: it does.

>House Guards hold exceptionally long daikatanas crossed at intersections, adorned with ribbons and dragon-flags;
Any family with enough money to have their own blinged out private guards probably has a large and interesting residence, or even compound.

>and the newly arrived Western legionnaires
With a military element, it's very likely that you'll find plenty of bars and whorehouses near the barracks/base, and what should the barracks itself look like?

>sweat in the humid air.
Information about climate, an important element in building design

>The river mouth is tainted red from the tinmi soil of the shore, and river dragons rust their hides in its waters.
Flavor for doing a landscape as well as anything the water touches.

>Across the lake the Imperial City continues, merging into the villages of the southern red river and ruins left from the Interregnum.
Ruin-strewn suburbs across the water.

>>The Emperor's Palace is a crown of sun rays, surrounded by his magical gardens. One garden path is known as Green Emperor Road-here, topiaries of the heads of past Emperors have been shaped by sorcery and can speak. When one must advise Tiber Septim, birds are drawn to the hedgery head, using their songs as its voice and moving its branches for the needed expressions.
Self-explanatory.

You have a lot to work with in a description like this one. It gives you a lot to work with directly and there are a huge number of inferences that could reasonably be made. Connect those dots.

https://www.atomic-ranch.com/home-decor/charles-schridde/

This link has a bunch more of the pieces he did for Motorola; what I posted was only a handful of my favorites.

I swear that comic artists have been cribbing from this man for almost 60 years by now.