The shapes of the buildings in these thumbnails are exactly what im looking for, taking my inspiration from the giant crystalline caves in my influence maps, ancient and tribal art, and repeated circular gate ways.  

There are a few themes presented by the extract of Argia that I am focusing on. Since it is underground i immediately thought of the earths core and magma, also a goddess in ancient mythology all across the globe referred to as being the mother of the earth Ghia. I also wanted to incorporate a sense of un-safeness with darkness and death which actually kind of contradicts the idea of Ghia (mother nature) who sustains and gives life to earth. Merging these ideas gave a me city hidden underground ruled by the direct influence of an angry Ghia that has turned her back on ground above.

To show this i thought the city from the outside look could like a giant woman and city is within her. Also by showing there is a strong worship/guidance of the her feminine energy. I can do this successfully with statues, engravings, patterns, and building shapes and spacing.

My goal in whilst painting these thumbnails was to create different types spaces whilst maintaining a singular atmosphere, i want this place to feel dead and seem desolate when there a actually masses of life. Im also experimenting with a line art style to make the details bolder. whilst painting i have grown towards using certain brushes to create the textures i desire and I wanted to go for a hand drawn style with cell shading, mixing the two is something i will be doing more often.     

Exterior

Interior

These images display strong themes that id would like to employ with in the architecture of my chosen city Argia.

To help my thought process Jordan suggested exploring my chosen city with a wordstorm. So i literally wrote down what ever came to my head as i read the text.

mapping the first words that came to my head in this way helped me to decide on the main descriptions that would embody my chosen city Argia. I have split the words up to 2 groups of 19 and one of 20, selecting a word from each section at random is how i will develop my sketches, using the combination to set the main tone of my thumbnails, and hopefully this may also help when thinking about the composition of my sketches.