EOW 114 The Bridge between two cities

[chaosrocks]

114 The Bridge Between two Very Different cities

Brief
there are two cities, that are visually very different. Whether this difference is by location ie mountain/plains or culturally ie Baroque/Aztec. There is a bridge between these two cities, It can be a natiural bridge , a man made bridge, a military zone or what ever connects these twoo cities

required elements
2 cities
a bridge
some natural feature which divided the 2 cities


DUE June17th 2009
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[clockworksnail]

Sounds pretty cool!

[ALH]

Nice. May have to make time for this one too

[Rabies]

Heres a sketch to get this thing started

[ALH]

Messy thumbs, hurrah!

Industry vs culture
stonemasons vs vampires
precarious cliff edge bungee jumpers vs..table.. strut..people
dark vs light vs aqueduct. I dont know why they would need an aqueduct when theres a waterfall right there.


Its hard to pick which one to go for out of these, vampires vs stonemasons is tempting, and but the aqueduct one makes an actual feature of the bridge!

[Justice Von Brandt]

What I've made



The light city and the normal city

[monotony]

great topic!

ALH, cool thumbs already! I like the first one best. probably because it's the most refined so far, but I like the composition and idea behind it. lots of potential in that one.

hopefully posting a wip here this early will help me keep working on it and actually finish this bugger.

*edit.
-uploaded the second stage here so I don't clutter the thread with my wips. first color block-in.
-and more color tweaking and rendering

[Mishkin275]

Yay we're off to a good start. Here's my sketch.

[MasterStryke]

mishkin your bridge is well executed, but imo it's too short (;

[Rabies]

Grayscale WIP

[Beershite]

Hello hello,

Im going to enter my first EOW with this sketch.
Im going for the rich vs poor scene

Good luck to you all!

Cheers

[zimfin]

Not done an EOW for a while so this seemed like the right time to re-emerge! Here are a couple of thumbs to get me in the mood. I am partial to the first for the possibilities with depth, style of architecture, flying cities,(love 'em!) etc and the second for showing completely opposing cities in a snow environment, (also fun!).

[Rabies]

zimfin

ever read "The Edge Chronicles"?

[zimfin]

zimfin

ever read "The Edge Chronicles"?

No I haven't. Are they good?

[Rabies]

Zimfin
Well theres a flying city in it, and your sketch just reminded me of it... yeeeeah...
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/edgechronicles/
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/edge....php?p=explore

[audit]

Zimfin
Vertical bridge! I'd thought of that too; hope you don't mind if I have a go with it for this EoW

[zimfin]

Zimfin
Vertical bridge! I'd thought of that too; hope you don't mind if I have a go with it for this EoW

Go right ahead!

[Primordial Seven]

zimfin

ever read "The Edge Chronicles"?

I completely forgot about Sanctaphrax in the Edge chronicles and yet subconciously the first thing I thought of for this topic was a city on a floating rock. ;\

I'm definity going to enter this one (aka the only one I've actually entered).

[Zirngibism]

I was a bit confused about the idea of a cultural bridge. You mean a physical bridge between two cities with different cultures, or could one portray one city with mixed architecture and cultures, with the "bridge" being a metaphor?

I'd still like to do something with a physical bridge, but I did want to clarify how conceptual this could be as well.

[meeshoo]

Hello, this is my entry to eow 114 (actually first time i get into eow). It represents the bad habit of human kind of forgetting wasted and polluted places behind like nothing happened and build new shinny ones.




Icon:

[copilotdork]

AAAH! I have no clue what I'm doing. This is my first EOW enrty and my first environment painting, I don't know how to paint this stuff... does this count?

[meeshoo]

Hehe, same stuff for me mate. There is a beginning for everything. First environment, first eow and first completed digital painting. I used to work in traditional media before, now i'm trying to get into this digital thing, but it's hard as I have a very crappy tablet and a very strange feel while working with it. Drawing without having the drawing tool in view is not something I'm used to . Hell even the lines don't get as straight and smooth as i am used to, but well, it's a start.

Good luck to you too

[chaosrocks]

the bridge is not metaphorical...or if it is it's a visually depicted metaphor... it is one of the visual elements of the piece. It's odd, although many of you seem to be floundering withthe concept of two cities and a bridge.. the thumb compositions are actually better than most compositionally.

[zimfin]

This is turning out a lot worse than I expected or hoped for! Might have it finished for tomorrow, but I lost the passion or it now.

[JEZ-RSV]

This image is my very first posting and its been fun to do. its based on my elven Lands meeting a new age of technology.

[FishyBoner]

Still kinda of new around here, I Felt inspired to try this out, I never draw environments, Only settings for characters.

I wanted to draw 2 cites, one a industrial/mechanical age city, the other a more organic like city, Maybe an elvish forest like place?

I also wanted to draw a tank, Cause i never draw those...Kinda drew it on another page, and threw it in via photoshop.
I dont know if i will finish this tomorrow, But it was still fun trying.

[zimfin]

Regained my lost passion and persevered! Glad I did too. Hope I have time to finish!!

[Beershite]

eey,

Had much more in mind for this paint, but im so short on time that i have to post it now. Half finished.

Need to get back to work

Cheers

[Zirngibism]

I had wanted to do this one, but I'm over at the Illustration Academy right now and I think I'll probably be too busy to create a "finished" version.

My idea was sort of an industrial alternate reality in which workers in an enormous power plant must "bicycle" their way across a long "track" from a mountain of shabby modern suburban-style dwellings to the monolithic entity. The irony being that even though there's an enormous industrial power plant city across the chasm, they're still actually using HPV's (Human Powered Vehicles).

Even if I finish this after the deadline, I might post it in this thread, just for the heck of it.

[ALH]

Deliberately left this to the last minute in order to force myself to learn how to paint faster. It took me all morning to get to this point, painting, making grids then deciding they looked rubbish, rotating it, then deleting then painting again, before finally flying into a GRR I HATE YOU IMAGE speedy paintover rage just as i was about to give up and go do some character work instead... which actually ended up improving everything.