Desert City

This is a concept for a desert city in the web comic I’m developing. The main ideas I was going for were organic, cramped, and building on top of each other. In the comic it’s a world filled with monsters and the city would be a center of culture and diversity with a unique history. The key building with the skull in it was because of the organic part but also because I wanted it to have a hint to what once was. For inspiration I was really looking at shanty towns, fantasy medieval buildings, and cyberpunk towns.

Originally I was trying to work in how to use bones and skeletons to be part of the architecture of the city, it ended up not being the main focus after a while. I mainly started to focus on the stacking of buildings and the tightness of the space. These are the first couple sketches for style and color.