House Studies for Jea's Village
The inspiration for Jea's vertigo-inducing home village in the webcomic The Constant Star was an old tree trunk covered in bracket fungus I saw while out on a hike. The buildings tumble and cascade over themselves in a dense maze of scaffolding and Choga-inspired roofs, like some kind of treehouse favela.
The eclectic architecture of the village incorporates a mix of found technology and crafted natural elements. Many of the early sketches I did were based on both real-life cottagecore architecture and Ghibli-influenced fantasy art scrounged from around the interwebs (including my peers on Artstation).
One idea was that many of the buildings would use repurposed technologies and structures as a ‘skeleton’ that would have natural elements crafted over top of them.
