Decided to play a bit with the drawing tools since I finally got my wacom intuos

This will be a map centered on a forest on slopes of a big mountain chain. Within the forest lives a wise old hermit. The adventurers that are out to find him have to navigate through the forest and avoid a fair set of unpleasantness to reach him. The points of interest will therefore be bigger and more pronounced since they will literally move their characters over the map..which will be revealed to them step by step. This struck me as a nice idea for a DnD session and also will make me train hand drawing which is what I want to learn since I love doodling and sketching. I'll be using a ton of info from the interwebs and this site. Mostly torstans, djekspeks and larbs tutorials and maps.

I will post my efforts in a step by step mode this time which will give me more chance for a critique from you guys and also help me organize myself a bit since everything I've done so far has only the final version and no in between steps. Which isn't all that great when you are a beginner and want to remember that one cool setting you used.

So here it goes:

First I made the background from a 8% opacity diff.clouds a green backgroud with colors from larbs tutorial and two background patterns:a rust one and an old paper one.
hermit_background.jpg


Then I sketched a rough map of what will come on the map later: Mountains,maybe hills, a river, forest with points of interest.
hermit_sketch.jpg

And the last step so far was to draw in the detailed mountains. Note here that at the bottom left I made them too flat/small probably. But since they are almost hills there I may leave them like that.
Hermits_mountains.jpg


Any comments will be welcome.

Cheers,
Barek