Levtrona's sketchbook

[Levtrona]

not much mapping recently. practicing the human head. I used to do this a lot when i was a teenager. Some recent sketches:


manbluepencil3w.jpg
manbluepencilw.jpg
woman1w.jpg
this is red chalk, which i loved immediately, and it broke immediatly.
woman3cpw.jpg

The others are watercolor pencils without water.

The second is my FIL, the others are from images from unsplash

[Levtrona]

Yesterday i was working on a map and messed up the coloring. So some more drawing practice
toadbp.jpg

[Ilanthar]

Those looks great!
I particularly like the sulky toad .

[mixerbach]

That's two votes for the sulky toad! I dig it!

[Levtrona]

Very little mapmaking recently. A lot of drawing practice though.

Here is the Map for the AUG/SEP 2020 lite challenge.

I found in the original version the light was somehow off. i couldnt get my head around it. Shadows should be falling away from the viewer. But on the other hand light looked better coming from top left.

Here are they both

original
mekava_original.jpg

flipped and twisted in Photoshop

mekavaweb.jpg

The composition was better in the original.

[Ilanthar]

Very nice and effective!

[Levtrona]

zya_floatingcity.jpg

WIP of the floating city of Zya.
ready for color but i cant make up my mind...

[Levtrona]

20201214_182025.jpg

WIP
I thought i could finish this in one day but there is so little daylight these days here.

[Levtrona]

anyone remembers the good old Diablo 2 LoD Game with its confusing dungeons?
WIP
dungeonwip1.jpg

I startet this with Adobe CS Illustrator, then my sub was cancelled out of the blue. So i thought its time to look around for other software and found affinity designer. so far i can absolutely recommend. I have a few days of testing left, will see how far i get but i think i will buy Affinity.

[Adfor]

anyone remembers the good old Diablo 2 LoD Game with its confusing dungeons?

I grew up playing it online, before online games were really refined. Such a classic.

The pinnacle of confusion was when Nihlathak betrays you on Act 5 Hell difficulty, and you descend into his massive randomly generated hole.

The map looks great for your first shot on Affinity, and you certainly nailed that confusingly constructed dungeon feel from D2.

IR