Jan/Feb 2025 Challenge: The Northern Realms

[Bogie]

The line work is excellent!

[Diamond]

Oh wow, that's gorgeous! Question: On your mountain line art, for the secondary ridges do you use a lighter pen pressure to draw them, or just have them on a separate layer and turn the opacity down?

[Kellerica]

Question: On your mountain line art, for the secondary ridges do you use a lighter pen pressure to draw them, or just have them on a separate layer and turn the opacity down?

Just lighter pen pressure, assuming you meant just pressing the pen lighter on the screen. I don't usually touch the settings while drawing, although I do sometimes alternate between two slightly differently sized brushes. The exact size depends a bit on what I'm working on, but something like using a 0.3 size brush for the larger peaks and a 0.25 for the smaller ones is pretty common for me. I use Clip Studio Paint for line art these days, and it's got a pretty powerful brush engine, so the pressure sensitivity to your tablet is far more advanced that anything you can get out of Photoshop.


Also, first touches of colour and texture added in now.

### Latest WIP ###
Remake_05.jpg

[Kellerica]

Quite a lot of progress now; colours and shading are looking pretty close to being done. I also ended up expanding the coastline at the bottom right corner, as I finally concluded the frame looked better without the empty space around it.

Still needs some cities, roads, labels and forests, but it's getting there.

### Latest WIP ###
Remake_08.jpg

[Diamond]

Wow, I REALLY like what you did with the border and the 'points of light' in the seas. That is delicious. Can I say that about a map?

[Bogie]

Love that shade of Slate Blue, excellent choice.