Higher Res available on my sofurry page: https://www.sofurry.com/view/1682757

I'm really digging deep into constructing in blender and overpainting in Sai- had to share some of what I've been chiseling at! I left the wireframe visible on the left to explain what's going on.

I could have never made the time to plot out these curves by eye alone, and it was a literal job of 5 minutes in blender (and a couple weeks struggling and googling how to do things LOL) to get the wireframe and camera angle how I wanted to fit the scene I had in mind. The wireframe is just a basic toroid that's used as a skeleton to add the finer details. I bet you could do it all digitally if you wanted to, but I enjoy puzzling out how to connect things just by working "on the grid".

More to come- here's some backstory for a change (and a hint at what the finished pic might involve):

The Auxiliary is a meeting place for art of all kinds. A curious aspect of working inside of it is that your efforts carry physically as well as emotionally- a musician on the second level will find that their song births a pattern that revolves around the central spire, mingling with and changing as it encounters the melodies of others. Painters, sculptors, and sketchers on the bottom layer examine the flow of song above them and add depth to it, literally drawing and sculpting into being the sounds and imagery they "hear" and growing the musical patterns. Singers on the third level breath colour and life into the images birthed below, and from the top of the tower listeners take in the dance and spin it into tales and stories to be shared beyond once the piece matures. The work begins each morning at dawn and finishes at dusk, but one voice always remains to keep the tune until the Sun returns.

Drawn in Sai, wireframe in Blender, sig in PS CS6