September 2016 Challenge: Varenthia

[kacey]

Congratulations! As to doing more, I think that's always true. Let me paraphrase the words of my first critical theory professor, a delightful Scottish gentleman who tended to answer questions with paragraphs:
"A good piece of work is never completed, only abandoned at a reasonably coherent point."

cheers,
Meshon

Thank's Meshon, you're professor sounds like a very smart man.

[Meshon]

Thank's Meshon, you're professor sounds like a very smart man.

I agree, I think I learned a lot about everything from him.

I should have also added: This map has been abandoned at an extremely reasonably coherent point! Very nice work.

cheers,
Meshon

[kacey]

I agree, I think I learned a lot about everything from him.

I should have also added: This map has been abandoned at an extremely reasonably coherent point! Very nice work.

cheers,
Meshon

Thanks again Meshon, and thanks for the rep it's much appreciated.

[Greg]

Great work on this, kacey! Gorgeous themes and style here and you really have to love that border!

Can't wait for your next map if this is but your first!

[Raven Moon]

So I dont have any computer programs nor the skill to use them if I did. Is there a way to do this by hand, a physical color pallet for this?

[kacey]

Great work on this, kacey! Gorgeous themes and style here and you really have to love that border!

Can't wait for your next map if this is but your first!

Thanks GLS, and I really appreciate the nice rep comment. I've started many maps, but this being the first I've ever completed, it means allot to me that you like it.

[Greg]

Thanks GLS, and I really appreciate the nice rep comment. I've started many maps, but this being the first I've ever completed, it means allot to me that you like it.

No problem, it's a great pieces and all those unfinished pieces no doubt built towards it!

[kacey]

So I dont have any computer programs nor the skill to use them if I did. Is there a way to do this by hand, a physical color pallet for this?

Hi Raven Moon, I’m not quite sure how to answer this. I suppose you could do this by hand if you felt like spending countless amounts of hours on shading the mountains. I used real world data from naturalearthdata.com as a grey scale texture layer. I cut, and pasted my terrain, and spent many hours blending the patchwork I’d created.

I don’t think it would be too difficult to shade the border, and text elements to get them to stand out using a pencil, or even prisma colour pencils, they have some good metallic colours that look really cool if you spend the time doing many layers to build up the form, and then burnish them, they even have a clear pencil for just this type of thing, you’d be surprised how shiny you can get items to appear using prisma colour, they really are fun to play with. You can mix the colours by doing thin layers, and they blend quite well. I did some knot work using them, and was able to make it appear as tho it was raised, if that makes any sense. I don’t think drawing that border by hand would be much different, just time consuming, and drawing the tiny gems in the icons with them would be a sure win, in fact, I think I might try it some time...Might be fun.

I don’t know what you mean by a physical colour palette? But I think if you know anything about paint...Which I don’t, I suppose you could match the colours. I just used the colour palette I chose for the challenge, and used blend modes, opacity, and textures to create variation.

I took a peek at you’re profile, you’re hand drawn maps are really nice. I think if you have the patients to draw all those tiny buildings, then you might also have the patients to do some shaded relief style mountains by hand. I’d definitely be interested to see it.

Sorry if this post is long winded, you just made me think. I’d never considered doing anything like this by hand, might be interesting to see someone try.

[ChickPea]

Fantastic work, kacey! It looks incredible. And congrats on finishing your first map. What an achievement. You've really made something to be proud of.

[kacey]

Fantastic work, kacey! It looks incredible. And congrats on finishing your first map. What an achievement. You've really made something to be proud of.

Thanks so much ChickPea, I'm just glad I finished when I did because my computer went for a crap yesterday, and now I'm only stuck with my iPad for the next few weeks until my replacement comes in the mail. And btw I did get you're message the other day, but I wasn't able to send one back because it said you're inbox was full, I wasn't ignoring you.