September/October 2024 Challenge: Pursuit of the Fountain of Youth

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Thanks! The two lakes were originally clouds, but I was not sure what to do with the endlessness of sky so changed them to lakes and added forests, farms, and so forth.

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Lol... I am going with watercolor pencils... Don't hate me.

Clock: 4:13

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[Chashio]

I couldn't possibly good choice. Only one thought, with pieces that have depth like this it's a good idea to use multiple colors/values for atmospheric perspective so near vs far elements don't fight for the same space.

[ThomasR]

Floating islands are always a good choice

Maybe a digital treatment to add some blur to the background and like Chashio said, some lighter colors to emulate mist ...

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Thanks for your great suggestions but it was written in stone long before I could read them. Lol.

Clock: ~5:17

It took 5 hours to draw and color it, and another 17 minutes to literally iron the wrinkles out of the warped paper and touch it up in GIMP. If yall think I exceeded the limit to much, that is fine with me if you disqualify it. I just could not upload it at the 5 hour mark.

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[Chashio]

Lovely! And no, de buckling paper and making the scan presentable does not count toward creation time here, not in my book anyway.

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Thank! I hope the challenge leaders feel the same. lol.

I've used water color pencils with better success. I'm not sure what was the matter with this one. I guess, I was drawing too light and the water could not spread the small amount of pigment.

[Chashio]

Sounds plausible. Too much water to pigment ratio is often a stumbling block with water media. Also too much water to paper not designed for water media ratio. I'm surprised it worked as well as it did.

[Chashio]

By the way, your latest wip tag is missing the last # so the color version isn't showing up in the thumbnails.