Clean the Pringles Mansion

This one took awhile. I worked with a .25mm pen for all of the linework, then toyed around with gradient and color for some time in Photoshop Elements. I swiped, in some fashion, the orange and blue color scheme recently employed in a work by the talented and prolific and kind Tone, AKA thechanchanman: [link]

Ahead of time, I only knew that I wanted to draw two landscapes--one as we know it, more or less, and one in the sky. I pondered making the sky one a serpent of sorts (hence the vaguely hexagonal 'scales'), but thought the platform a much better, city-cleaning scrub-brush once I added appendages to these shapes.

I also originally thought that the upper platform would shroud the space below it in darkness, like some kind of Orwellian sci-fi cliche. Instead, the platform casts an orange glow in an otherwise dusky sky, which I think looks pretty nice.

Nothing much is to scale--there's a figure on the upper platform that would stand much too large in the landscape below him, but, so it goes. He's having a smoke on the job. I don't know how this will affect the citizens of the hub below.

Enjoy!