Constructing The Hand, Part 3: The Details

Yesterday, I showed you the two elements for the basic design, the shoreline and general shape of The Hand. I proceeded with a mock-up of the cover to give Bruce something to work with:



In order for Bruce to take over, I had to give him a little more information. The first item was the hand portion of The Hand. I looked through a bunch of stock photos until I found one utilized by a mortgage company. The final hand was completely different but at least this image showed my idea for how it would appear to an observer:



The last piece of the puzzle was the city of Ur itself. As you know, the Vuduri always build their cities as a series of concentric rings, starting with The Tower in the middle and going out from there. They had to adapt the design for Ur because the shoreline prevented perfect circles and The Hand would take the place of The Tower:



Tomorrow, I'll show you Bruce's first pass and how we had to fine-tune it.