Vodya : testing my new tablet!

[ThomasR]

I learned how to give depth to my coastlines from Torstan's tutorials and I thing it does wonders with very few efforts. For the plains, a little texture, either by drawing hills and grass tufts or using horizontal-ish shadows (overlay and various opacities of black) will do the trick (and it's quickly done)

[Ilanthar]

I played mostly with shadows & coloring, for coastlines & different elements on the main island.

Not sure it's working though, what do you guys think? About the colors too?
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[Ilanthar]

Small update...

Just added colors on the town icons roofs and the main illustration for the frame. Working on a compass...
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[ThomasR]

This is looking very good ! It was obviously way past time you got a tablet, the results are wonderful !

[fol2dol]

So nice!!! :drooling:

[Sapiento]

Looks good! Which brush do you use?

[Ilanthar]

Hey, thanks a lot for the support, guys !

So I suppose it's fine with the coasts/plains?

@Sapiento : A lot of different brushes... I'm testing a bit of everything . But Mainly, Ink Brush 25 for the drawings.
And a test for the compass...
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It seems that Krita isn't really useful for labels (unless I use my own handwriting... which I won't do). So, I'll probably do it with another software.

[- JO -]

That's really great drawings ! Really nice towns and villages ! I love the dragon too !!!

[Ilanthar]

Thanks JO!

It's not a dragon, though . It's a mythic bird, emblem of the Vodya nation, the "Stymphale". It's a bird with eyes capable of zooming and focus like prisms, talons as sharp as razors, a beak as hard as diamond and dotted with reddish feather razor-sharp that he can shoot like arrows.

I'll probably go with a simple frame like this. And some tests for coloring both compass and stymphale... Plus a try for labels.
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And... going to sleep soon .

[Abu Lafia]

Wowow, looking awesome Ilanthar! The city icons are superbe and your birdy seems to be quite a mythic final boss monster