May/June 2016 Lite Challenge: Escoba

[Greg]

A lovely stylised start to this challenge Loukana! The sketchwork is very nice indeed and it's great to see the world building across the two updates.

I'm not entirely sure about your font at the moment, but I guess it may work depending on how you do the rest of the map.

[Loukana]

Again, thank you for your comments !

I think your landscape has alot of potential for writting a novel or playing D&D

As a gamemaster, I find myself quite flattered by this comment ! Personnally, I find it a bit too "classic" (mage tower, volcano dungeon, tree city,...) for my tastes, but you're welcome to it if you want to use it for a game.

I'm not entirely sure about your font at the moment, but I guess it may work depending on how you do the rest of the map.

Argh, no, the font was just temporary ! Using Times New Roman for a map when there are so many interesting fonts available is a bit sad... ^__^;


So, here's the third WIP, with cleaned cities, mountains, coast, river and legend. I gave them names, too !

### Latest WIP ###
Escoba_04_LD.jpg

Next step, I'll tackle those forests, hills and lakes, and add the shading of the crater.

[Bogie]

Your map is looking Great! I did kinda throw in all the standard tropes didn't I! Well, at least I forgot the Evil Marsh!

[Josiah VE]

Love the update! The cities are great. I really want to learn to draw cities like that.

[Loukana]

Well, at least I forgot the Evil Marsh!

I almost added an evil marsh around the river's estuary, but then I went "...Naaah, too cliché !"... XD

[Ilanthar]

Great work on this Loukana! The buildings/Cities are excellent and I love the frame. One nitpick : the title box doesn't really fit with the frame, imho.

[Korash]

Loukana, this is looking great. I love the way the mountains turned out. Not to mention the city/town icons.

One comment/question if I may...I assume that Mount Durn is the required volcano, but at the mo it just blends in. Are you planning on adding more to it to make it clear as to what it is?

[Loukana]

Great work on this Loukana! The buildings/Cities are excellent and I love the frame. One nitpick : the title box doesn't really fit with the frame, imho.

I'm happy to hear that you like the cities. :-) By title box, do you mean the frame around the legend, compared to the frame of the map itself ? If that's it, the current frame of the map is just a random sketch, I plan to redo it much later, as well as the dragon and griffin illustrations (it will certainly be one of the last things I'll work on)

Loukana, this is looking great. I love the way the mountains turned out. Not to mention the city/town icons.

One comment/question if I may...I assume that Mount Durn is the required volcano, but at the mo it just blends in. Are you planning on adding more to it to make it clear as to what it is?

Yes, I'll certainly comme back to the mountains shading later (once I figure the color scheme I'll use for this map), and plan to add a red glow coming from the crater, as well as smoke if I can manage to blend it nicely with the rest of the map.

[Warlin]

Great map and yes, your cities are awesome and inspiring. Beau boulot !

[Loukana]

Ok, new WIP !

### Latest WIP ###
Escoba_06_LD.jpg

Next and probably last one will have cleaned illustrations, symbols and lines from legend, and I'll try to find something for the grasslands instead of this empty color. Oh, and drop some shadows for those forests and cities !