Upstairs Wizard Tower

[saria]

Oh, no rush! Commissions are more important, and I can wait Doesn't have to be today! Also, for anyone curious: I ended up going with the Huion 610Pro, since I'm new at this, I thought I'd start small and the reviews for it were really really good.

[Larb]

I just looked that tablet up - it seems to have a lot of good reviews. There seem to be a number of good tablets coming out of China lately. A while ago I heard good things about one made by a company called Hanvon. It will be interesting to hear you find it.

And J.Edward: I use an Intuos 4 Medium. Best thing I ever bought!

[J.Edward]

I just looked that tablet up - it seems to have a lot of good reviews. There seem to be a number of good tablets coming out of China lately. A while ago I heard good things about one made by a company called Hanvon. It will be interesting to hear you find it.

And J.Edward: I use an Intuos 4 Medium. Best thing I ever bought!

Not sure why I thought you used a Bamboo... but a tablet is ground breaking for digital drawing. No question.
My own is still the best thing I ever bought myself too.

Saria - okay, so I did a little bit. I'll state ahead that I'm generally crap with tutorials so this may or may not help.
If you want the full .psd files to look at I can send them to you.
I saved a copy of you map and then did a few layers over it and tried to explain some of what I was doing.
If you've any questions I'll try to answer them.
WizardTower-Fulltower - tips1.jpg
Then a screen capture to explain the layers
Saria - screen 1.jpg

[saria]

Ohmygosh. I am literally speechless right now. This is... amazing. And gorgeous. And so nice of you to do this for me. I'm going to stare at these for a while and see if I can process everything that's in here. How can I ever thank you for such an awesome tutorial, taking my work and showing what I could improve is an utterly perfect way of teaching. Thank you!!

I would love the files, if you happen to be willing to share them! Also, I love how you took my sketch and used that as the basis for the rest. It's really wonderful. I'm going to see what I can create and hopefully show an updated version. I think I also learnt that the smudge tool looks like its very useful - I'm going to go do some tutorials on how to use that effectively as well.

THANK YOU!!

[saria]

Well - it is time for the update!

I made the bed, carpets, barrels, doors and crates myself too. Slowly building up some useful things.

I'm a bit nervous posting this since it's a follow-up to the lovely tutorial I just got. Hopefully I was able to incorporate some of those examples in my own style and add some of my own. Let me know what you think!

I think I'm pretty much done... but I always tinker for way too long.

WizardTower - WIP8.png

[J.Edward]

It's looks great saria.
I think you did well incorporating those suggestions.

[Jacktannery]

Great development. Well done for getting such good advice and following it Saria, and best of luck with your mapping.

[Bogie]

Excellent work!!

[saria]

Aw thanks guys Really glad you like it!! It is SO hard to judge your own work, I feel like by the end it's a blur in your own mind and hard to see if it's any good, especially as a newcomer who doesn't know how to judge anything. Thank you!!

[Ilanthar]

Hey, I missed this! Nice work Saria, very fine wizard tower.