Just wow this one looks so cool! :D

Doesn't it though! Tirriss (the large griffin in the foreground) was completely stunned when she saw this. Her friend Rannit-eet (the small bird below her) set the whole thing up for maximum impact.

It worked.

Yeah can imagine id probly be pretty stunned if flew over a cool looking city like this also!^^

The context is important too. Tirr comes from a much older and more hidebound place, the fortress-city of Defiance. It's like comparing a block of concrete with a rave nightclub. She's very well traveled for a griffin, but this was beyond even her experiences.

Is anyone else looking for a McDonalds in this

You're more likely to find a "greenie" rave club.

I guess it's a meme in my pictures now xD

Oooooooh, this reminds me of some fractal art pieces I had seen that looked somewhat like cityscapes!

You're not far off the mark. It was designed by greenies. Imagine a bunch of autistic-savant parrot architects given totally free reign to design a city from the ground up.

This is the result.

Sounds about like me, sans the "parrot architect" part. I'm a huge fan of fractal works!

You'd probably enjoy the company of builders (the parrots; they look like this: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/974143/). They're rather fragile physically and mentally, but working as a flock (and with newly invented firearms) they damn near conquered their world as thoroughly as humanity conquered ours.

And they are very, very creative with their architecture.

Ohh, fascinating! Thank you for sharing that bit of worldbuilding with me.

The Griffin Ranger world is actually pretty complex and very well thought out by Roz Gibson. I bought her two books (which I *HIGHLY* recommend) and then wrote a third book as a fan novel. Think of it like an "extended universe" book, covering 30 years after the events of Roz's two novels.

The context is the city's being lit up to greet a brand new griffin ranger to New Kaerling, Tirriss (the big flyer). It was set up by her childhood friend Rannit-eet (who's the little greenie flying next to her) as a grand welcome. The city was also congratulating Rannit-eet for graduating for their universe's version of Top Gun, which makes him one of the elite aerial combateers of the continent.

New Kaerling was built on the bones of the old lair of the villain Whitehead, whose picture I linked you to already. It represents a hoped-for bright future for griffin and greenie alike, even as the shadow of war with the "monsters" clouds their future.

You can find an excerpt from my novel here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30870868/.

Together with her observer Pidge the hanz, the three of them have a lifelong bond, and this is the first view Tirr and Pidge are getting of their new city. It's quite a first impression!

My, that is quite a bit of worldbuilding!

This looks like it took a LOT of time and effort to lay out and draw!

Yes, it was hard but yeah worth to put energy into ;3

*blushes* I am glad you thought so, Red.

talk about futuristic. and wow. normally my dream so soaring through the sky on high speed engines would be my dream but in this case ill settle for the amazing scene and stunning light XD but overall its just something that takes my breath away

This is an alternative universe, ruled by avians :3 rather alien architecture

does dragons count at avians? we do fly too.i want a jet pack now XD

to me no, but you can play as a dragon with jetpack in dragon commander game series ;3

yay cant wait for it one day ahhaha thank you though

Wonderful piece! ^^

Thanks!

A great and vivid sense of story.

Thank you! I had good desertions from the commissioner

It's the cover of a novel! If you'd like a very brief exerpt, I posted it with this picture on my own FA site, here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30870868/.

Ooooh pretty!

Thanks <3

The city of headaches

light infesting is way too intimidating, but these birds like it it seems

In truth the gaudy light show was specifically to welcome Tirriss and Rannit-eet. It isn't nearly so gaudy during a normal night.

Remember very few birbs are nocturnal, so if they're out at night they like everything to be brightly lit. One of the first things they incorporated from the monster world.

That's a really good point, and a potential source of conflict, ironically, with the griffins and greenies on the same side and the mammalian faction (which has nocturnal members) on the other.

I never really thought of it that way. Mostly, I went gaudy because greenies designed this joint, and GAUDINESS is their religion. ^.^

Whoa... stunning piece of art.

i only can imagine the work in that piece.

and i want a jet-pack

The jetpack aspect was a lifetime creation for me - I sorta tacked it on to the Griffin Rangers world with some handwaving, and it worked surprisingly well!

The main two characters in it, Tirriss (the griffin) and Pidge (her hanz) are a pretty direct equivalent to Maverick and Goose from Top Gun. He operates her sensors, shields, and weapons; she concentrates on flying. And has a rather large attitude problem.

The little guy flying next to them, Rannit-eet, is a colleague and mentor that Tirr grew up with.

Besides all my responses to my commenters, I'll leave my own feedback. I'm just stunned. This is High Art. It looks like a completely professional book cover illustration, and seeing New Kaerling brought so vividly to life moved me to tears in real life.

I literally could not have asked for a better illustration of the Shining City on a Hill for griffin-Earth. It's completely fantastic. I've not one word of criticism.

Holy heck the details in this are great!

Red and I worked a lot on those details. There was another picture drawn specifically as a "sketch" reference for this picture. I gave her a city map pointing to all the major landmarks, the general "feel" of the city, and we designed a suite of buildings. A LOT of time and effort went into this piece on both sides, and the end result was...humbling to me.

Lovely work!! Great detail and layout on the city, without losing the characters in the background. Sorry I didn't comment on this sooner-- since I've been working again I let stuff I need to do pile up until the weekend.

There's a LOT to unpack in the pic, but overall, it's meant to be a tribute to how you depicted greenie techology - a mix of 'Old School' and 'New School', with a communal zone (downtown), a commercial zone, and an outer territorial zone (where the rangers and the griffins who aren't top ranked live). The tallest structure, the Thunderbird's Pin, is a watchtower for Old Kaerling and the Chief Ranger's residence (as well as a small airfield for jet-assisted flyers and greenie quadrotors).

And it has your Avenues of Light prominently displayed.

When and if I manage to get the $ together, the next project for  red-izak will be Defiance. In contrast to the bright, colorful, and greenie-designed synthwave hallucination that is New Kaerling, Defiance will be as Old School as they come. Even within my fan-canon, SOME things didn't change one bit, and Defiance was one of them.

Fun coloring!