Quote Originally Posted by Bogie View Post
The problem with the mountain shading is that the shadows are on all sides of the mountains. You haven't taken light direction into account. Pick a spot for the sun and make all the shadows consistent with that.
That was what I started out trying to do, with the Sun SSE of the island, if you can believe it. The shadows crossed the ridgeline and got kind of muddy as I tried to blend them out. Painting them in is not something to hurry through I guess

I have added more mountains and have tried a new method of shading the mountains. This time I duplicated the ridge layer, moved it to the upper left, changed blend mode to Darken, and put a motion blur on it. I duplicated that twice moving one down and right and moving the other up. I blurred both layers above the line with more blur on the second. The layer below I changed the blend mode to Add (Glow).

I think this turned out better but I'm not quite sure yet. And I still have mountains to add on the left half of the isle.

### Latest WIP ###
The_Alveolate_Isle_WIP5.jpg