# @stevedmcdonald on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHv_ZUgOwHV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63359809-stevedmcdonald-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-28T16:32:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Steve McDonald 🎨📚 (@stevedmcdonald) — https://gondola.cc/stevedmcdonald

## Caption

'We Found It While Mapping the Unseen'

Another Look at Worldbuilding with New Tools:

This isn’t a real city (obviously)—but it could have been.

These pieces are the result of building a place not from blueprints, but from questions: what happens when you let intuition guide the structure? When you start not with a finished vision, but with fragments—snippets of street corners, hints of balconies, whispers of footpaths, a 'visual narrative'—and let them accumulate into a living, breathing place?

This is how cities grow in the imagination.

Unlike the previous series, which was monumental and speculative, this one leans into the organic and overgrown—densely built, softly lit, layered with stories. The process blends traditional architectural sketching with new, generative tools that don’t just replicate our world, but help us compose entirely new ones. These are built like memories: shifting, tangled, and warm.

In my course, this is part of what I teach—how to think like a worldbuilder, not just an illustrator. How to compose. Conduct. To let tools extend your imagination, rather than constrain it. To make places that weren’t there before... and then walk their streets in wonder.

👉 Click the only link in my profile to join the fun. Only 3 days left to buy the course.

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