Echoing the comments about the mountains. They look fantastic! I love how you give the feeling of texture to them, and they'll look amazing when coloured. Looking forward to the next update.
Nice mountains, now get some other details on there.
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Echoing the comments about the mountains. They look fantastic! I love how you give the feeling of texture to them, and they'll look amazing when coloured. Looking forward to the next update.
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Update.
Filling in some of the bigger mountains.
Mountains are fun to draw, and put me in a meditative state.
But it's time to start fleshing out some of the other aspects of the map.
Don't want to spend all of my remaining time on mountains--just showing how they come together.
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That's quite a bit of detail going on there! I really brings the mountains to life though. I'm really liking where this is going.
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Update.
Adding in basic color and texture for sea and land.
Creating a big desert in the rain shadow of the "southern" mountains.
Experimenting with "grasslands" look that takes advantage of color (I've been doing a lot of pure line-art BW maps lately).
Experimenting with a border treatment...there's one version on one side and a similar but smaller-scale version on the other.
Happy to hear all comments on what is working/not working.
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For me, I think I like the smaller border best. I'm not sure just by looking at it if I should interpret the southeast region as low grassy hills or forested, but it's a neat look. The colors look nice so far... maybe check that they will work as well in greyscale. That desert is wonderful
Update.
Trying out some highlight and shadow on the mountains at the bottom.
Also shading in some of the desert.
Adding in some coniferous forests in the upper reaches -- outlines that need to be filled in.
Plopped down a big, high-altitude glacier in the upper region between the tall mountain ranges.
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Man your linework is just amazing, love the Mountains and the drifting sands. Great job!
Update.
This a new view, delving into one of the alternate sizes of the island, as described in the Challenge brief from Chashio.
This is a much smaller version of the island, with sea cliffs around much of it that are a few hundred feet high.
This version is just getting started. Lots more detail and color to come. There will be buildings, perhaps a fort, lighthouse, and manor house, as well as gardens and pastureland with trees here and there.
The little harbor is just big enough for a few ships.
There's a big volcano dominating one end of the island...though "big" is relative at this scale. It's actually smaller than most of the mountains you see on the larger version of the island on the previous map.
I'm considering doing an animated GIF or something like that which will alternate between the larger island and the smaller.
At this stage there are multiple theories as to why the island appears at such radically different sizes. Will it be explained, eventually?!
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This is really interesting and I can't wait to see it all come together. Cliffs and volcano look great.
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