Imaginary Places

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  • Haley Campbell
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Hogsmeade, Gondor, Cair Paravel, The Emerald City, Never-Never Land… all fantastical places that started as text and have now been interpreted into visual landscapes. Now it’s your turn!

Take a place–a city, a significant geographical formation, ship, maybe even a dimension–and render it visually. You can compile stock images using GIMP or Photoshop (make sure to give credit where it’s due!), draw, paint, or even create a collage. This assignment isn’t limited to places that don’t have a well-known visual representation yet, either; if you want to show us YOUR version of Bag End, go for it!

For your writeup, explain why you chose your imaginary place, the technique you used to create your image, and what effect the transition into a visual medium has on the original description.

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Submissions So Far

@eafinto

The Land of the… Survivors?

I created an accurate as fictionally possible depiction of “The Land” in California by Edan Lepucki. Of course, as the title explains, these characters are in

eriee27

Veronica’s Hometown- Clarkson, Missouri

3 Stars

Veronica’s hometown of Clarkson, Missouri is a small one with a population of only a few hundred. Most of the town is rural,

awallac2

Cair Paravel

For my third visual assignment for the week, I decided to do the Imaginary Places assignment, so I made my version of Cair Paravel

aetherbunny

Wind Plain, ruined city of the Gradient-Masters

Seriously. Someone needs to take the gradient tool away from me. Oh whoops, damage done, TOO LATE. I created this rendering of a ruined Earth-Master

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curlsnjournals

Episode VI: Return of the Architects

For this project I chose buildings by two of my favorite architects Frank Gehry and Thom Mayne and put them into a