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Futuristic fantasy town – ‘Citadel’ | Mistgate

Illustration of a futuristic fantasy town, the ‘Citadel’, made for Mistgate, a third-party setting and rules expansion for Dungeons & Dragons 5e.

The initial stages of this illustration involved figuring the city itself, and how to feature an iconic building that serves as its landmark. We made a quick round of concepts for its main elements — the tower, the vehicles, variations showing different POVs, such as a view from under a tall bridge, and we also discussed how to incorporate the town’s lore and visual identity (a mixture between 1920 architecture and art with fantasy and sci-fi) into the artwork.

Software: Clip Studio Paint, Blender

Woman crossing a sidewalk in a fantasy town that blends fantasy and sci-fi: There's a yellow transportation vehicle similar to a bus on the center of the image, airships on the sky, a giant skyscraper on the background, and vintage lamp posts on the sidewalk.
Final image.
Close-up of a woman crossing a sidewalk in a fantasy town that blends fantasy and sci-fi: There's a yellow transportation vehicle similar to a bus on the left side of the image, a giant skyscraper on the background, and vintage lamp posts on the sidewalk.
Close-up.

Pre-production

Several rough variations of a fantasy skyscraper
Tower roughs.
sketch of a town night scene made with deep blue colors. There are buildings, a full moon behind a large skyscraper, and airships on the sky.
Testing a night scene.
2D and 3D rough sketches of transportation vehicles and bridges
Sketches for the vehicles, an option for another POV, and my initial Blender sketch for the scene.
drawing of a map in which there are craters separating large portions of land. In the middle of the map there's a town that connects to the other "islands" by long bridges.
During our initial talks I drew these in a notebook to figure the setting’s terrain and the area which houses this town.

WIPs

illustration of a town in an initial stage. There's a rough painted sky and lineart for a character and a town, and a 3d block representing a skyscraper on the background.
WIP

Links

Mistgate website

Mistgate Essentials: Origins book on DriveThruRPG

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