Amurescan Royal Court (WIP) (Patreon)

So, I HAVE been working on Red Lantern this month.  In between my other work, I have been cranking this monstrous thing out.  This is the opening 2 page spread in Red Lantern - Sacrifice, sans the characters.  

I absolutely suck at architecture, especially interior architecture, so I have to thank resources I obtained from 123RF for this one.  I heavily reffed, and in the case of the crown molding, photo-bashed textures together to make this space, and constructed the layout from an old courtroom image.  Much of it is also hand-painted, and I'm not quite done defining the molding yet, which I had to heavily modify in order to fit the scene.

The chandelier is directly reffed from the court room image as well, I loved the look of it and wanted to modify something similar for the space, while obviously removing the electricity elements of it.  I think the little globe bells would work well for candles, too.  Although how they get up there to light them is beyond me.  My guess is they don't have a whole lot of hearings at night, so it's usually not an issue : P

I'm torn on the windows.  The initial plan was to have them be stained glass, but the bright white is really striking.  Thoughts?