Cross section for an art deco hotel, as part of some concept work for a client. This was super fun, I enjoyed creating a vision for the building, a boutique and quirky city centre hotel. I went for a strong art deco style, and imagined the building had started as maybe a small department store, then been used as offices before eventually being converted to a hotel by an essentric and well travelled gentleman. #design #architecture #buildingdesign #graphicdesign #cartography #map #artdeco 1/2
The layout is a product of its many uses over the years, with the roof garden, dome house and orangery being added later on. I love the layered cake like look of the cross section, emphasised by the two point perspective. Super fun to draw. #design #artdecostyle #mapdrawing #cartographer #cutaway #crosssection #crosssections #twopointperspective #graphic #mapartist #mapart #concert #1920s #architecturalillustration #architecturesketching #architecturedesign 2/2
@chloethecartographer I love this one. I have a thing for cut-out drawings and architecture and I find this one fascinating. Thanks for sharing it.
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Thank you for sharing this beautiful building. Your post led me to your website and, as an SFF fan, it was an absolute joy. Moonshae took me back so many years to when my kids were young and we found Forgotten Realms. .
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That is fantastic. Got lost just zooming in and looking. Beautiful work.
@chloethecartographer this is absolutely stunning work!
I love your thought process, building a history of the building with its use changing over time.
Would make an excellent print or poster.
@chloethecartographer Lovely drawings - it reminds me strongly of one of my fave real-life hotels :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Hotel,_Manchester
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Looking at the layout of the penthouse, I have some guesses about the owner:
-While he comes across as extremely open and welcoming, any investigation into his past quickly discovers quite a few mysterious absences of information.
-A stay at the hotel of more than a week will see you invited to dine with him at least once, important and interesting people get more invites.
-He commonly invites people to meet with him in his private lounge, meetings in his office are considered a big deal, (with few ever giving details of said meetings).
-He readily grants access to his library, which has much of interest, (and even more in the many locked cases).
-He hosts, but does not join, regular high-stakes games of cards. Rumors abound of how he does participate in secret games for extreme and unusual stakes, (the rumors range from entire family fortunes and priceless art to literal souls and items of power).
@chloethecartographer That looks awesome!
@chloethecartographer I love this kind of drawing so much, it’s beautiful and what Mastodon was made for…!
@steely_glint love that building. I’ve stayed there too! Wasn’t a reference I used but it could have been that’s one stunning building.
@carbontwelve sadly it’s for one of my key clients, no poster for this one. I might do a Cthulhu themed similar building for myself…
@RHW i am in love with the Moonshae, such an interesting mythical dark gritty, dangerous place. Perfect for my games.
@danielgibert I really love cut outs, so much to look at
@chloethecartographer This is really excellent and excellently nice. 
@chloethecartographer Gorgeous as usual, you could re-dress that really easily as a good map for a DC Heroes game of the Penguin's Iceberg Lounge.
Also the sketch is lovely. I've grown to really hate pure renders
@Printdevil yeah I’m also thinking it works for call of Cthulhu…
@chloethecartographer Oh well it obviously works for a period set game, but there's a real dearth of good maps for Superhero games I've always found and populating your city with great locations is very hard.
@Printdevil I did this modern era art deco observatory converted to science labs for a superhero game. If there aren’t many maps for this genre it makes me want to do more….
@chloethecartographer I think it's a combination of things, SHRPGs tend to be a smaller medium, often dominated by Marvel (which uses existing world locations) and people maybe feel they can get those from travel books and stuff and also there's lots of non-gaming material for Marvel and DC. Away from that though, there's never really been a lot of modern super maps. I reused a lot of Victory Games maps for James Bond for example. Bespoke maps though.. stupidly rare