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I like them but you might consider squeezing them if your going to do a mountains range. For the light/shadow layer, I prefer when there is a smoother transition.
Mountains (advice needed)
I decided to have some fun and make a map of Valyria (using http://www.cartographersguild.com/fi...ommission.html as a sort of source). I'm trying to get more of a 3d look on my mountains. I need to know what everyone thinks of the mountains before I do them because they take so much time and I just need to know I'm going the right way with them.
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I like them but you might consider squeezing them if your going to do a mountains range. For the light/shadow layer, I prefer when there is a smoother transition.
The contrast between the highlights and shadows is pretty sharp. If you are going for that general light side/dark side look without small details I wouldn't make the highlighted side quite so bright.
If you want to keep the bright highlights I would consider using them more sparingly, only highlighting ridges that directly catch the sun, leaving some medium tones on the light side.
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How about this?
I like both versions, though my personal taste is more towards the first actually. Bold contrast and shapes thereI think they are far too tall and skinny to read as mountains though, they rather come across as rock spires to me.
I've found myself thinking that a lot too; the shape of the mountains was informed by a slightly exaggerated style but perhaps it was so exaggerated that the mountains ended up not looking like mountains haha
I tend to prefer the first ones for the shapes though maybe a main ridge would emphasis better the contrast between lights and shadows.
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