September Entry: Speed Challenge

[Torq]

Excellent work as usual Ravs. Where do you get your inspiration for place names though?

Torq

[ravells]

Thanks, Rob! I was running out of time to think of anything suitable Fantasy-esque! I just went to the members introduction forum and started running down the list of names!

[Sagenlicht]

Thanks guys, but honestly, it's a lot simpler than it looks - anyone can do it. I think we get so hung up on using textures that we forget that you can actually get a reasonable map done much faster by just using a round brush in photoshop or gimp and playing with the brush settings.

I'll try to do a video tutorial for this. It's really quick to do. The only bit which requires any artistic knowledge / talent is the mountains and as you can see from them, I really don't have much of that, but I'm sure if I fiddled with the mountains for a couple more hours and looked at references I could have got something more decent.

It's a real nice map Ravs, especially the mountains are really great

[ravells]

Wow, I thought the mountains were the worst bit, but thanks.

[Morshwan]

Only four hours to draw this map? Are you taking drugs or something like that? It is unfair, I have to spend days and days to render something quite good, and you only four hour for beautiful map.

[ravells]

When I post the tutorial you'll see how easy it was to do. Seriously, anyone could do it and in probably less than 4 hours.

[mmmmmpig]

I like the overall design, but I think you relied on pre-set filters a bit too much. They come out being very strong and a tend towards the "gimmicky" IMO. The color choices are great and the overall appearance is nice until you start seeing all the different textures.