Heian Shrine (personal project)

[Voolf]

My oh my!

That is gorgeous, and well worth the wait

If you ever do another version of this one maybe shade the trees many different shades of green between the two you have chosen?

But I have the feeling that I'm only nit-picking because I'm so JEALOUS! LOL!

Haha, i will work on this Mouse.... Does 100 km2 of plain trees in different colours is enough? I think i am ready to do that.....

Fantastic Voolf! I actually don't mind just two colors of trees, in my opinion it looks fine. But, I do have one nitpick on the font: It's papyrus! Just to let you know papyrus is way overused and you should stay away from it.
This is a gorgeous map Voolf, keep it up! I so enjoy your maps.

Really? I haven't noticed that at all. I was looking for some thin font and come across this one, so i used it for the very first time. I don't want to part with it so fast .

Its beautiful Voolf - sorry, but I have to rep you ... love the roof work most of all, and the small detail of the gateway breaking the border

Well if you HAVE TO, i cannot do anything about it.... i guess i will live. . Thank you.

You're amazing, I find myself in aw of you're work more times then not and you continue to improve with each one, I can only imagine what we'll see from you a year from now. This is stunning, and I'm seriously jealous of you're work. I much prefer to use the multiply and screen method over the overlay blend mode for shading and highlights, and you're work here definitely shows that you've mastered it because the results are really great... Can't wait to see what you do next.

Thank you so much kacey. It may be hard for you to believe, but i so much like your maps too. Some of them are in my inspiration folder and i already looked at them several times to please my eyes.
As for the blending i like overaly because i can work both shade and light on one layer just switching the colour. I know some people say that overly tends to alter the colour too much. That is true, it works simillar to burn. But effect is much better if you stack 2 low opacity overly layers.
Working with Multiply and screen is somehow strange to me, because those two layers works exactly the same as normal layers for me. If i take all my multiply and sceen layers and change their blending mode to normal, for my eye nothing changes in the picture, i can do the very same wilh all layers as normal. At this point i dont see the benefit i could get from those two modes over normal one.

This looks great Voolf.
Glad you did both English and Japanese versions.
I love seeing the Japanese. I find it more pleasant to work with.
Everything here looks really well done. The trees especially.

Edit - darn, must spread rep. And I just did that too.
I will return

Thanks J.E. I like to work with Japanese too, but since i stopped using PS (which was the only software that could handle japanese properly) i have some difficulties to arrange the text. Especially when i make it vertical. Some signs are positioning wrong during typing, especially ー this one. If text is vertical this sign should also go vertical。I don't know if you are aware of this, but you have same thing in your Umi no Toride in words like ルーム, ガード.

This is Goregeous Voolf, really a great job: clean lines and colors, the trees are awesome.. bravo!

Thanks Tom.

Perfect! Everything is really well done. The details of the roofs are crazy and the trees are just a model to follow.

Thank you, took me long to make them.

Absolutely beautiful. This is a work of art and there isn't a thing I would change. Your shading is gorgeous.

I'm so sorry, but I can't rep you and, oh boy, does this map deserve it!

Thank you ChickPea.

Great stuff Voolf and nice to see you around a bit more Your tonal choices are as usual very pleasing. If there was one thing I'd comment on is the water seems a bit bold compared to the rest and appears to stand out. The rest of the palette is more laid back if you know what I mean. Anyway that's just me. Overall it's a great piece.

Thanks Straf.
I thought i lower the saturation of the pond enough... i will keep that in mind for next one.

Is that a Japanese flag in the bottom left or is it a pie chart indicating how much of Japan is actually Japan?

I am sorry Straf, but sometimes i dont understand your humor :/. It may be cultural differences.

[damonjynx]

Voolf, this is simply stunning. Very well done. The whole piece is just...I can't think of any superlative that does it justice except to say every aspect is 1st class; line work, palette, shading, scale et al.

[arsheesh]

Um, wow. The line-work and shading in this piece are really top-notch. Just stunning!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[ThomasR]

I've postponed commenting on this masterpiece for too long. You manage to rival J.Edwards top down buildings and cities with a twist where, I already said it, I can see a Schley influence. Yet, you show something personal. Great ... no, not great, awesome performance here, Rafal !

[Voolf]

Voolf, this is simply stunning. Very well done. The whole piece is just...I can't think of any superlative that does it justice except to say every aspect is 1st class; line work, palette, shading, scale et al.

Thank you.

Um, wow. The line-work and shading in this piece are really top-notch. Just stunning!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thank you.

I've postponed commenting on this masterpiece for too long. You manage to rival J.Edwards top down buildings and cities with a twist where, I already said it, I can see a Schley influence. Yet, you show something personal. Great ... no, not great, awesome performance here, Rafal !

Wow, that is quite a praise. Thank you so much Thomas.

[Josiah VE]

Voolf, this is an absolute masterpiece! Flawless and masterful. The style definitely reminds me of J. Edward. The trees are fantastic.
You are an inspiration!

[Sapiento]

Beautiful map!

[Akae]

Wonderfull work! Amazing! I love this

[snodsy]

Absolutely beautiful, such precise linework, your trees are magnificent! Another inspirational piece.

[Greg]

This is technically stunning work Voolf. It was great to watch it slowly develop and build up to the wonderful finished piece it is now!

If I had to give any crit, like others have said, I feel like there could have been another green used in doing the trees to really make them pop with that blue, but otherwise this is marvellous stuff! Also, the English text isn't a patch on the wonderful Japanese script.