July 2017 Entry : Stronghold of Eternal Night

[Tenia]

OK, I'm in :
cg-july2017-list.jpg
I have chosen #6. I will focus on the Stronghold of Eternal Night, with some lava and maybe some tangled trees and bones as guest stars.
Will be done entirely with ArtRage, which I use for a week, so I will be completely out of my comfort zone.
### Latest WIP ###
stronghold_eternal_night1.png
i will probably use the paint tube, oil brushes and knives, I don't know yet if I will keep the ink pen lines.
Cheers !

[Mouse]

Brave you!

And... what a strange name for a country - 'Mary'? Oh well *shrug*

I'm really looking forward to this one. I might pick up a few tips

[Diamond]

There's something about Mary... oh yeah, she's PURE EVIL!!!!!!!

[fol2dol]

Nice start!
I like the Vauban style of the stronghold

[Tenia]

Thanks
Mouse, brave ? no just fool... and I am afraid you will pick up only big mistakes
fo2dol : Yes Vauban is a great source of inspiration, and a great architect too
Some tests here, I am absolutly not happy with the texture of the stronghold and the ink lines become more and more annoying /(
### Latest WIP ###
stronghold_eternal_night2.png

PS : Oups, I just realized that these textures are very space consuming (5 mb for this ?)

[Falconius]

Naw, it's the format. png's can get big. Same file in jpg would be way less. In any case this looks great. In the first thumb I thought it was a 3d model.

[Mouse]

Yep - try exporting in jpg. ArtRage does them REALLY tiny - much smaller file size than the same map exported from GIMP. I was looking for compression artefacts, and I honestly couldn't find any. I really don't know how they do it, but ArtRage are the bees knees as far as exporting jpgs goes

[Tenia]

Thanks both of you, I just did a jpeg export, thats what I do from Gimp usually (btw I didn't see any compression level setting) and my image is now 1,2m, much better !

[Mouse]

No. There's no compression level setting, which adds to the mystique of... 'how on Malacandra did they do that!' I love it

[Tonnichiwa]

I love this one. I've always liked the old Star fortifications that so many places in Europe had. Great job on this one.