City of Geldirth (Commission)

[greendino]

Geldirth 3000.png
A commission completed for serena221, the city of Geldirth. I first did a rough sketch, then inked and added details to the map. After scanning them in I went about digitally altering them to add some colours in a watercolour style, to make it easy to differentiate basic buildings, landmarks, water, etc. I am generally happy with how it turned out, though city maps prove much more labour intensive than regional or continent maps!

[Arimel]

City maps and buildings are definitely harder to draw than any other type. This came out really well.

[greendino]

Thanks! I think I would have liked to put more detail in, but with the sheer number of basic buildings. I did gray scale for my scan to get cleaner lines, but that meant I had to hand paint all the colors in gimp rather than use the fill tool.

[Alanthiar]

Impressive! I appreciate that the roads are not perfectly aligned or straight.

It makes the whole thing feel more organic.

[greendino]

I played a lot of city skylines and perfect grids (all the time) never look right to me. Truth be told much of the road layout was provided by the client, though I did modify them a bit to make it work better.