Good artists borrow, great artists steal. I plan on stealing from these ones very generously.
The Green Hell and the Circle of Life and Death
I admit not a lot of forests here. But that’s where the creative transformation into something new happens. I am such a genius. The shortest way I can sum up the concept is “Dark Sun in green”.
I think one thing to take away from this list is that the world and its inhabitants needs to be intense and surreal. It really has to be larger than life to evoke the styles of these reference works.