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Around town.
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Panel 1: Maida walks through a street in her city. It looks like a cross between an airport hallway, a run-down mall, and a London high street.
Panel 2: Another street scene. The sky is closed off with a grill of iron and glass. Cars and other vehicles rush along a canyon between arched glass buildings and concrete promenades.
Panel 3: Yet another street scene. Massive papyrus-shaped columns hold a ceiling up above a busy roadway, a train, two stone lamassu statues, and rows of condos amongst trees that have never been outside. In the distance towers another metropolis with an enclosed glass ceiling.
Panel 2: Another street scene. The sky is closed off with a grill of iron and glass. Cars and other vehicles rush along a canyon between arched glass buildings and concrete promenades.
Panel 3: Yet another street scene. Massive papyrus-shaped columns hold a ceiling up above a busy roadway, a train, two stone lamassu statues, and rows of condos amongst trees that have never been outside. In the distance towers another metropolis with an enclosed glass ceiling.
Hmm…I knew this place looked familiar somehow…
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Shh! 😉
It’s a great style. I love how you mix future and past artistic sensibilities. What’s the place modelled after?
It’s mostly London, which is already a mix of old and ultra-modern. In particular, those ceilings are totally the style of architecture found in Crystal Palace or a dozen train stations. But I made a point of looking for inspiration from a variety of ancient civilizations for this new comic. The people of this world fancy themselves the true inheritors of every “great” civilization of the past, and I want to convey that through the architecture.