Quote Originally Posted by Ilanthar View Post
Kelleri, if you are letting down this to do a better one, PLEASE DO !!!
It's great, with your particular style for shapes and texture/color. The heraldry and mountains are also particularly excellent. How did you do those mountains, btw??
Heh, now look at the pressure you just put on me. Shame on you!

The mountains are a mess, to put it shortly. I started out with a base of relief style mountains made with a Bewel & Emboss layer style - the technique basicly straight out of Tear's Saderan tut even though I use custom made brushes to do it. After that I flattened the base, copied it and hit it with a couple of Photoshop premade filters. Poster Edges, Sponge, etc. until I got a look I liked. I added a light layer of hand-painted shadows and details on top of it all.

Sorry I don't have a better step-by-step for you, I kinda cooked it all up as I went along and don't even fully remember how I did it anymore...