I did an incredible amount of research as well as used my already fairly good knowledge of the dark tower series to construct the world in such a way that it flowed, and showed all the major places from the book.
I will be adding a movie clip that shows the progress of my drawing, as well as really close up of each of the individual elements that will trace Roland and his parties progress through his world in the books as well as show you the attention payed to detail. So if I have forgotten something or linked things that dont make sense let me know so that I can add it or decide Im to lazy to add it before coloring it.
I hope you think its cool. The only last thing I guess I will say is that. I think the main thing to think about in visualizing the theme park is when you first walk through the front gate off in the far distance you can see the tower jutting up into the sky. So no matter where you are or what you are doing, you can always see it, and how you get there or which course you take is completely up to you.
It is the ultimate in theme parks, and as I mentioned before a better term would be immersion park.
The Dark Tower Theme Park Finished (in a sense)
(slightly smaller than 24x18)
Early Sketch. The Idea didnt change too much from this. The only real big thing is that It became wider so elements moved to fill in the sides.
Ok so I did blow these up to larger chunks but the video will have even closer pictures of the individual elements so I encourage you to check that out when I finally put it up.
One thing I should clarify for everyone is that, one of the elements I wanted to put in, but ended up not having time to do it all, is the idea of the Beams that hold up the dark tower. These beams were not physical beams but more like currents of electricity and each beam had an animal guardian counterpart. Each beam met at the dark tower, so two beams always had two guardians protecting it. Roland and his band of travelers traveled mostly along the beam of the Bear/Turtle (i believe it was turtle I could be wrong, its written on the drawing).
So to incorporate this idea into the theme park each beam would be an entrance into or an exit out of the theme park. What they go to or where they come from was not really thought of. However, I think there is only one Main Entrance and Exit to the Park, and that is through the Bear Door. So the other doors maybe would go to Elements of New York, Main, or whatever places Roland and his band visited outside of his world.
Enough about beams, if you dont know what they are then they are completely unimportant, and if you do know what they are then you already understand what I am talking about.
Top Left Corner: In this part of the Park you can see One of the Beams (eagle). You can see Odd Lane in the trees just to the right of the Eagle Door. Below that would be the Land of ThunderClap in it is Alja Sentiel, and Castle Discordia.
Top Middle: The Dark Tower, surrounded by the field of Roses and the stone heads. Below that you can see the final stop of Blain the Mono Topeka Kansas, and the highway system.
Top Right: The Forge of the Crimson King (town not finished and building not represented exactly the way I wanted it to be). A hole Into Todash Darkness, and the mountain for the doorway cave. You can also see that the Fish doorway is being drawn now that I have time.
This area is where the Calla will eventually be, but since the Calla is rather large it was one of hte parts that I didnt have a real good grasp on how to represent it and therefore ran out of time.
Below is another hill this is the hill that Rhea of the Coos lives on. It was placed here to take up room for the Calla and later will be moved down with the rest of hte Mejis stuff.
To the left of the coos hill you can kind of see Eyebolt Canyon.
Mid Left: Thunderclap, Blaines Mono Rails. Below that the city of Lud and the waste lands, to the right of that the giant forest, and Misty Mountain Range. You can also see the coastline and the doors from the second book.
Harder to see is the Rivers Crossing and the Circle of Stones that Susannah encounters the demon.
Mid Mid: Topeka kansas, the highway system, lud, at the bottom the weigh station.
Mid Right: Eyebolt Canyon, Coos Hill, Mejis, Susann Delgados place, and bottom is Citgo ail pumps, and a bad representation of Jericho Hill
Bottom Left: The beach and the 3 doors, lud, rivers crossing, the nazi plane, the weight station, misty mountains, the swamp and circle of stones that is first encountered, a start to the Rat door, and the corner of Tull.
Mid Bottom; Top left is the weigh station, to the right, Brown and Zoltans place, and tull
Bottom Right: Jericho Hill, Mejis, citgo, and Gilead
My only critique is that the Dark Tower is supposed to be in the dead center of it. The 12 beams all cross at one center point, and that's where the Dark Tower is.
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ReplyDeleteYes of course, that is true. But this is a project for designing a theme park. So for aesthetic purposes, when walking into the park the dark tower would loom off into the distance. I didn't like the feel of it simply right in the middle of the park. There isn't enough distance.
ReplyDeletePutting the tower deep into the park, the feeling of journey and distance is more evident.
I don't remember if I wrote this or not, but this also wouldn't just be a theme park where you go for a day. It would almost be like a retreat. You could go and actually live in the park, for a week or two.
and just like in disneyland where suddenly mickey appears, or whomever, the characters would be walking around. Events from teh book would happen. Want to watch Roland destroy the town of Tull, Tuesday nights at 6pm!
Anyway, I hope I cleared up your critique. It was intentional placement. All the placement was intentional. But I am up for suggestions. At some point I would like to make this drawing maybe three or four times as big.
that's great!
ReplyDeletebut shouldn't the tower be more tower-like, recognizable? single column? not to be mistaken for some castle.
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