Design process
Last week I finished the sketches of Tibet in the book. This week began another important area that the protagonist group visited - the "Snake Swamp Ghost Town" mentioned in the book.
The sentence in the book describes it like this: Devil's City, also known as the Windy City, is a strange terrain carved out of large rocks by strong winds. We stopped outside the "castle" at the rocky hill at the bottom of the building, and Tashi jumped down and shouted and we all came down and set up camp. Two hours later, the wind began to pick up, and all of a sudden, the wind and sand that had covered the sky and the sun until midnight slowly decreased as yesterday.
The author's inspiration was the Yadan Devil's Town in China's Xinjiang and Gansu border regions: a Yadan landscape that is mostly auctioned off on the Gobi desert or desert. The stones, constantly crashing, colliding, and rocky, make various sounds, like the devil is whistling, hence the name. At the same time, these areas are often accompanied by natural landscapes such as sunrise and mirages, forming unique tourism resources.
The special topography of Devil's Town is naturally formed by veteran wind erosion. When night falls, it makes a creepy sound because of the howling wind, so it is called "the devil's cry" and the "devil's town".
Based on these pictures, I imagined the route of the protagonist group into the Devil's City, so first they had to enter the Yadan landform.
This place is undoubtedly very dangerous, everywhere is covered with wind and sand, sand piles after sand piles, heavy fortresses, and dangers
This reminds me of the description in the book, when the protagonist group went deep into the devil's town, they went to the local locals and said that they were forbidden to go inside, because it was a sea back then, and then I don't know why the river dried up, forming a terrifying landform, and if you go inside, you will encounter monsters at the bottom of the sea.
I realized that the author may have used this knowledge when writing the book, but it was a novel, so the author would naturally add more fantasy colors to the devil's city according to the needs of the plot, and the image of monsters would be added.
I guess can that be a combination of the two? Since it was once a lake, then the boat, the water level dropped, and the earth's crustal geology formed the Yadan landform, and the ship naturally would not disappear, so it would be sandwiched in the middle by squeezing the pillar that must have risen? Later in the book, it is written that the protagonist group continued to move forward without the dissuasion of the earpiece in order to find the treasure, and finally found a submarine mausoleum (sea burial), and I was able to set the submarine mausoleum near the shipwreck.
Like this:
Then I started thinking about color.
First of all, according to the pictures, the large color blocks of the Yadan landform are dominated by warm tones, earthy yellow and maroon. It can be summarized like this:
But while researching the local colors, I found another prose poem about the local terroir, which reads:
The golden garment faded
From east to west
A few hills dotted in the middle of the desert
The true color of the bare gray earth
purple
It is the color of dreams
The bus drove the last tourists out of the wilderness and woke up in a dream
It is not known how the devil standing on the earth will whisper at night
From the poem, I found that it seems that warm colors do not represent the whole Devil's City, and when night falls, the sky will turn purple and bottomless, like a monster that wants to eat people. So I drew this one again:
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