I was very surprised to learn in the beginning of this term that we were supposed tosomething for our History of Architecture project. As much as architecture involves creativity and creation, it's certainly not nearly as free or artistic as illustrations, concept art and etc. I can not put in words how happy I was to be able to bring all this freedom and color into my college life, that is filled up with rules and limitations that often make me lose my mind.As our professor explained, we were suppose to pick a city's description by Marco Polo from Italo Calvino's book, Invisible Cities, and bring it to life into an expressive image. We could've done it anyway we liked, but I went for my favorite photoshop painting method with blending layers and such. Overall, it was a true delight to work on this. It makes me miss out my days in design school when creative freedom was a constant part of our working process.I was very picky when it came to selecting one of the cities. Of all the examples I've read, Zenobia was the only one that came without ease into my mind, so it felt natural to choose it. The city is described as a large group of bamboo houses being held by bamboo columns, each house on a different level over dried terrain.Originally, I tried structuring the drawing with a proper comporistion - but I failed miserably at it.You really don't know what to look at here, and I don't blame you. I messed it up really bad, but I still love this crammed up scene. XDI was really inspired by footage taken in India and Nepal by Devin Graham. This is supposed to be a fictional village, so I took a lot of libertities when it came to aesthetics. The monkeys and lamps are certainly my favorite parts.I followed the shame method I use in my webcomic pages:More stuff: