Looking for some feedback on this. I'm doing a couple of pics for S. P. Davis' upcoming fic, The Runes Of Awakening. (If you read Project Mobitropolis and want more, he has delivered.) This is a pic of an Arack city, and as you have probably guessed, they're a race of Mobian spiders. Here's the excerpt I'm working from:

The buildings were arranged in spirals, with streets between, and Sonic had no doubt that if one viewed Sol-Hayyim from above, it would look like a web. The buildings themselves were long and flat on the outskirts of the city, and gradually became narrower and taller as they spiralled inward, culminating in the centerpoint tower, an oblisk-shaped skyscraper that housed the autocrat of the city (known as the Sector Lord) and his government. The tower could be seen from anywhere in the city, and Sonic glanced up at it as he walked. A foreboding pillar of black that cast its shadow eastward over the city.
If there was one key feature of Arack technology that Sonic thought set it apart from any other that he was used to, it would probably be the conspicuous absence of wheels. Such a fundamental necessity for the advancement of any culture, and yet nothing round seemed to exist here among the Aracks. Their vehicles of transportation all hovered or walked, shambling along the streets like giant four- six- or eight-legged insects. Some machines even slithered, if that was an accurate enough description, but nothing at all rolled. Angular tram-like vehicles used magnets to speed along rails that ran beside the roads, and every so often stopped to let people off.


So, what do you guys think? I think the spires need lights in them, so they look like skyscrapers, twisted as they are. But somehow I don't think the lights should be arranged geometrically ... and do you think the web in the foreground covers up too much?