MMM's Experiments

[MapMappingMapped]

Hoping to progress more and more, I opened this thread. I'm always experimenting with different stuff, and though some end up as hideous examples of imagination, others push me the right way. I will try to update this thread daily, working my way higher up the ladder....
So today I tried another go at a watercolour top-down style I've been working on. It's my third experimental dabble with this. The result isn't too bad - I improved my mountains - but I've still got work to do with the forests, and hills too. I shouldn't have added the labels so hurriedly - my mistake can be seen not only in the label itself but with the names . Microns are not good for calligraphy. About time i got myself some nice dip pen.
Took me 'bout three hours. Yes, I rushed. Also, the colour seems a bit off, due to the scanner. I must have messed up with the brightness somehow.
Hopefully one day I will make a real map with this style. Perhaps that's it - I will manage a neat map if I map a place I know and respect. But, you know, I think I'm okay with continually experimenting first. I lean more to isometric maps anyway.
Adruss. Not one stroke of ink apart from the labels.
EDIT: It did rotate... And yes, I don't know how mountains really work, from above. Cooked spaghetti anyone??

[Ilanthar]

I really like your forests on this!

[MapMappingMapped]

Thank you Ilanthar
It's a pity, my watercolour pad is between A4 and A3, and my scanner is a4 only... I have so many experiments and maps I want to upload, but they'll have to wait.

[MapMappingMapped]

Quick 'city' i started working on yesterday. was fun to doodle with, might add to it later on. i wanted to see the effects of hatching, and 'tudor' beams (which, here, are very messy). microns on A4 normal paper.

[ChickPea]

That looks great!

[MapMappingMapped]

Thanks chickpea!

[MapMappingMapped]

Added some stuff to the same doodle. The more houses I draw, the neater the next one along is. So I'll never stop
Oh, and forgive the piece of 'mud' near the square with the statue, I don't know what happened to me there...

[Ilanthar]

Looking very good! I'm just wondering how it would look you do some less dense hatching for the walls (or the roofs, one or the other).

[MapMappingMapped]

Thx Ilanthar! I'm not sure which will best be less hatchy myself, but hopefully tomorrow I'll try a few experiments and post them.

[Ilanthar]

Well, my idea is to do a slight difference between roofs and walls (it's of course visible right now, but I would try to slightly reinforce it). Maybe some play on opacity would be enough? Some thing I tend to do sometimes is to do another layer at less opacity with a slight translation (like a dropped shadow, somewhat) and it can give some depth, like a kind of engraving.