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Sampo: the city

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I have a shameful secret... I started this whole big cyberpunk epic in my head (called Sampo for now). ;_; And since cyberpunk epics need Big Glowy Cities, I needed to paint a Big Glowy City. This was partly a good thing, since I've never done ANYTHING of the sort, and was a bad thing for the same reason. holy gosh. Things I can't paint: trees, cities, techy stuff... all of which this involved, vaguely.

I'm most pleased with the glowy bits of the tree, which, while inaccurate so far as the story goes, look purty.

This Big Glowy City is tentatively named Vala, and is built around a massive, semi-petrified tree, much of which has been hollowed out and converted into a mass of circuitry. The actual surfaces of and the channels left by its roots have become roadways. Stuff like that.

*RAMBLING*

About an hour in openCanvas, then some texturing and fixing in Photoshop. It looks really bad up close, but I like admiring it from afar.

Edit 8/25/11: Some minor edits to color and contrast, since this keeps getting attention (thank you!) despite being ancientttt.
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"Sampo"; A magic mill described in Finnish epic known "Kalevala", described to mill infinite amounts of salt, flour and gold.