I've been wanting to do some kind of daily art challenge and I think a city theme could be fun. I'll see how far I get.
If anyone has ideas for a conceptual or abstract city I'd love to hear them.
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in reply to @jpotterfield's post:
That's really cool !
How is it made ? Looks like 3D with filters but maybe something else too.
Thankyou!
Yeah, the base is a render. I use Threshold to separate into flat values and layer them, sort of like the process you'd use to make a traditional print. There's a little drawing on top of that for final tweaks.
Been dreaming for years of a city that's built like a university. just buildings close together. no streets, sometimes green spaces. Towers and unusual architecture yes, connecting bridges yes, but it's all one complex.
Second idea: Black sand beach, buildings glow at night instead of street lamps.
these are both great, the university one has some Borgesian flavor to it
City ideas:
- Cuboids and cylinders of various sizes (some tapered, some not), suspended from a horizon line that's just out of frame, with drooping rope bridges connecting them. Ideally reliant on combustibles for lighting to make everything feel even more precarious, like someone built a city of hanging oubliettes from matchsticks.
- Layout of major thoroughfares determines via random scatterplot Voronoi diagram, with each enclosed neighborhood built uncomfortably crowded, and to a different maximum height than adjacent neighborhoods.
- Homes and small commercial neighborhoods built along an unnervingly uniform grid, 1950s-suburban-housing-development-style, extending to the horizon but revealing some grander, more nuanced pattern via a changing color gradient of the street- and window-lights.
- Traditional metropolis "skyscraper district," with the exception that a central, tallest tower seems to exert some sort of attraction on the surrounding buildings, which are all built in a manner that lean toward it, with more and more exaggerated leans as the radius from the center expands.
- A city split in half by an improbably tall and smooth mirror, with distinct architecture on either side and a handful of towers providing bridges over the top of the mirror.
(Very cool project, curious to see what comes of it!)