Voolf's miscellaneous art

[DanielHasenbos]

I think you've pretty much nailed the colours, especially in that second crop. I don't really see a need to change it. I can imagine that the barren area looks a bit flat to you, especially considering you've probably spend a good amount of time staring at it. However, to my eyes, it looks just fine.

[Voolf]

Maybe it is due to the parchment being darker.
That can really affect how colors look on a background.
As an example, many of mine would look wrong if I change the background color.
That's due to them being multiply layers.

Yes, parchment affect the colours and "evevation" of the land made by shade. I tried to edit it so it does not break some elements of the map.
I *think* the map looks good just with the parchemnt, but when i add colours some areas are off.

Try a second fractionally more purply deep water colour. Maybe the shallow could then be edged towards aqua (closer to the green of the land), for purple-green harmony.

Colours aren't the easiest things to play with. Sometimes I google 'green paintings', 'blue paintings', colourful paintings, or something like that - steal colour ideas from other people's work. You could try that? Remember also that if you happen to like a painting you see for its colours, the balance is just as important. For example, if you find a glorious blue painting with a small amount of yellowish orange in it, the colours won't look any good used in an artwork where the proportion of those colours is different - where there is the same amount of both, or more of the yellowish orange than the blue.

You could even use that second extract to do an image search for similar images - see what you can find that is almost but not quite the same colour balance. Sometimes things can look wrong but only be very slightly 'off'.

I still really like that second sample.

Thanks Mouse. The water does affect the whole thing as you said, but i can deal with it. Problem is, with those closer regional maps with a lot of mountains i have hard time to actucually shade some parts of the land and have no idea what colour i shold pick for it. It just doesnt look good.

I think you've pretty much nailed the colours, especially in that second crop. I don't really see a need to change it. I can imagine that the barren area looks a bit flat to you, especially considering you've probably spend a good amount of time staring at it. However, to my eyes, it looks just fine.

Thanks Daniel. The two crops are actually only ones i felt confident enough to post as "almost" done. The problem is with the rest of the map, unfortunately :/

I marked the upper part which i have the most problems with, but honestly when i look at whole map, it just looks off. Don't mind the forests, they need to be redone too

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