[WITHDRAWN] January Entry: Western Mythkir Bay - Ship's Graveyard

[torstan]

So I was in the process of putting together a map for my home game and thought it might fit rather nicely into this month's challenge. I love Tear's dark colours of Mythkir Bay. With the corruption from the south and sparse landscape I thought it could do with an old sea battle. Here's the map so far - a ships graveyard deep beneath the waves of Mythkir Bay:

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Moved from the original WIP thread (with all the associated line art and WIP stuff) here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=8621

[torstan]

And an update with some darker shadows and a few more colours in there.

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[Jaxilon]

That's cool. Reminds me of my old fish tank from when i was a kid too.

[mearrin69]

Looking awesome. Love the palette you've got going.
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[DevinNight]

That is looking really great. From your refined sketch I could tell this would be a really nice piece of work.

[torstan]

Thanks guys. Fiddling with the colours a bit more, added a runic spiral to the sea floor, and a few light rays coming from above to give some sense of depth.

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[Steel General]

Great stuff here Torstan!

[torstan]

... and a bit more tinkering. I added a subtle lighting effect over all the flat surfaces to simulate the effect of light coming through the surface of the water. To get this I used Clouds+Difference Clouds. Bumped the levels to get sharper lines. Inverted it so that the lines were white. Stretched and squashed the whole thing to get a more elongated pattern. Set the layer to soft light. Masked the whole layer and then brought it back by brushing the mask with a low opacity white fuzzy brush in the regions I wanted to light.

I'm unreasonably pleased with how that came out.

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[Ben]

Wicked! Awesome map

[Ramah]

That lighting effect looks awesome, well done. I just opened up this image and the previous one and kept flicking between them to see it. Great stuff.