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Happy New Year!

This is lovely. I especially like the redo of the shop window on the left and the fortress in the back. (=Arcaln?)

What part of the city did you picture this being in?

I love the realistic reflections in the spilt water on the road.

Parete re?n?- so řuk im so?n ret?n ?ayne esan ly? francric?.

That looks pretty- the castle in the background looks very French.

Hamal i etora- uthayuntha hamal i rou freŋeca.

Very neat representation. I wonder if the street is made from some sort of stucco or brick. The people look quite realistic. Overall very nice.

boy #12 wrote:What part of the city did you picture this being in?

The castle in the back is indeed Arcaln, so this would be in the Nezi neighborhood which it overshadows.

You should take a photo!

What he said

It's a great difference to the original picture. Very nice.

/me wishes he could draw

I notice no s?pas are worn. Is it not fashionable headgear in that part of the city?

Very, very nice! Is there a chance we could see more pictures like this in the future?

Talk about making a chap feel inadequate - what a way to start the year

Seriously, the new picture is a great improvement, and it has quite a lot more atmosphere. I wish I could draw anything like as well as that

I never noticed that castle before...

Very nice. I hadn't noticed all the differences, although I look at the new picture all the time: I use it as wallpaper on my office computer

I showed the picture to a friend. He told me that the style resembles Herg?'s Tintin drawings. I hadn't realized it before.

This picture has always been my favorite. Thank you for improving it!

Looks great!

The fellow in the blue shirt is better posed in the new picture - in the original he looked as though he was going to fall over backwards!

Legros wrote:I showed the picture to a friend. He told me that the style resembles Herg?'s Tintin drawings. I hadn't realized it before.

This picture has always been my favorite. Thank you for improving it!

Thanks! I'm not sure I agree about Herg?, but I'll take it as a compliment. Perhaps it's an image from the never-issued Tintin en Verdurie, where Tintin must go after Dupond and Dupont who have disguised themselves as Cadhinorian emperors...

zompist wrote:

Legros wrote:I showed the picture to a friend. He told me that the style resembles Herg?'s Tintin drawings. I hadn't realized it before.

This picture has always been my favorite. Thank you for improving it!

Thanks! I'm not sure I agree about Herg?, but I'll take it as a compliment. Perhaps it's an image from the never-issued Tintin en Verdurie, where Tintin must go after Dupond and Dupont who have disguised themselves as Cadhinorian emperors...

Well, the original picture is reminiscent of Herg?'s ligne claire, I think, but the new one definitely isn't.

very nice Zomp, I like the new pic..

Maybe you can tweak the old one to make it more of an evening or twilight scene, since the new one definately looks like Mid-day

or even a differening season, like winter, or fall?

This may be thread-hijacking...

On the picture I note that there are written (shop?) signs on some houses. I know that for a long time, people went by with symbols indicating the purpose of a place - i.e. the striped pole for a barber shop, etc. At some point, when a sufficient number of people became literate, written indications were added, which later replaced the symbols. Does anybody know when written shop signs became the usual thing on Earth (and when on Almea)? My gut feeling would be between the 16th and the early 19th century for Western and Central Europe, but if anybody has more details, I'd like to know.
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Hans-Werner

That would be an interesting to find out. I've always been curious about Verdurian societal things, the nickpicks. When they write, what do they abbreviate? Do they have an etc., ktl. I'd think that signs may have been a commonplace article even before, since the written word would imply a mass populace of literacy and well, a symbol like a striped pole would be easier to see from afar than letters written. Or so I think.

Hey, it's no fun to develop an alphabet and not use it. Verduria would be at least as literate as ancient Rome, which had plenty of graffitti.

Pictures could be used as well-- note that the tavern in the foreground has a picture of a cup of beer.

I've always assumed that Old Verdurian, at least, was full of abbreviations. Medieval Latin was as well. You'd get even more in fields where obscurity is an advantage, like magic, alchemy, and medicine. But abbreviations are on the retreat since the invention of printing and the spelling reform.

It's much better than the old one. I wish I could draw so nicely...

yes, i think so...

I like the stairs to the fountain, it breaks the geometry that so many peoples are endeared by. Is it tiles, or stones, that cover the streets?

Kinetiq wrote:Is it tiles, or stones, that cover the streets?

There's a difference?