Kacey's Practice sketches, experiments and not so mapy things

[Arkidemis]

The trees made the B&W version look a bit off, but with they coloring the map looks very nice.

[kacey]

It's looking great, Kacey!
Your forests are very nice. Did you try to indicate the topography under them? Sometimes, it "anchors" them more efficiently in the land, so to speak.

Thanks Ilanthar, that's a really good tip I hadn't thought of that, I'll definitely try to accentuate that in the next one. I'd like to try some more cliffs and chasms too that's anther area I feel I'm lacking in.

Looks really well done Kacey.

Thanks Voolf.

The trees made the B&W version look a bit off, but with they coloring the map looks very nice.

Thanks Arkidemis, I agree with you on the version with only lines, if I were doing a proper black and white map I would definitely do things differently that's something I'd like to tackle in the future as well as full color which I haven't managed to pull off yet. I depend too much on the back round texture and haven't managed to make anything look good in anything other then sepia tones and subtle colours so I feel a little limited in the styles I'm able to produce.