Feedback, advice and pointers sought

[damonjynx]

Overall, that's a great effort. Personally, I think it's a bit too dark - it's all very similar looking to me - particularly if you intend using it on Roll20. Try lightening either the floor or the negative space outside the walls for a bit of contrast. It wouldn't hurt to have a highlight on the walls either, to make them "pop" a bit more. Not that I'm an expert by any means! I like the subtle glow from the wall sconces and the way you've done the floor tiles - a more than adequate substitute for a grid I'd say.

Keep up the good work. Practice makes perfect so they tell me...

Are using PS, GIMP or something else entirely?

[EliodeGM]

Cheers Damon -

I'll take on board the pointers... highlighting the walls could help, you speak wisdom with the comment about contrast. I found when sharing with friends on Facebook that the white page background made the image way too dark to view.

I'm working my way towards adding details, working out methods for the light effects was one of the latest moves I made. Eventually I hope to be able to add in furniture and fixtures as overlays. So I suspect I'll be aiming to just do room layouts as mapping without contents.

I am using Photoshop for the colouring, lighting and props, walls and shadows. I draw my own slabs on the IOS Adobe draw, getting vector based grids for my stone work.

I'm coming at this as a technical exercise, working smart to make the most of the software. So my layer effects are doing most of the work getting the style I'm after.

I'll share a brighter (better contrasted image) that uses many of the same method.

[EliodeGM]

And here's the same map but with the contrast raised so we can see a little better




Note this is a post production alteration - if I redid it I'd control the balance and contrast a little more.

[EliodeGM]

A new one I did tonight, taking on board some of the advice. Also smaller so the detail can be appreciated a little easier.