This is a place in Phoenix Staff, the novella I’m working on (currently in the middle of developmental edits!).
The fun part of drawing out a few different settings now is that it’s actually helping me with the developmental edit, where I’m seeing (literally) that I didn’t describe some things well enough and can add in some setting-related conflict/tension/lore.
For instance, earlier in that world’s history, the setting looked like this:
and then the below is what happened after lots of time passed in that world, which is the scenery that Zinnia sees when she first arrives:
Can you guess what happened?
Side note: this was collectively about 3 & 1/2 hours of work in Krita, with a trackpad (no drawing pad - can’t afford one). I just used the brush presets and tried to make use of blending/different textures to get the look I wanted. There’s some perspective and coloring issues, but…I’m still learning!
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