Haldeshar

[Klaus van der Kroft]

Absolutely stunning. Would rep you twice if I could!

[Akae]

Really beautifull map! Amazing work <3

[J.Edward]

And let me say - I am really happy this was so well received.

Beautiful map. You really have your own great style for mountains and your illustrations are - as always - top notch. I think your really mastering the frames as well (the clouds on the top, such a great idea and render), and the water colors are perfect on this.
Glad to know you've got a lot of work, that means more candies for us!!

Thanks Ilanthar It was harder to do in pencil but more fun than doing it digitially.

I love the oversized castle and clouds to the north. I've been meaning to experiment with exaggerated elements like this myself and this piece is a great inspiration toward that end. Lovely work as always J.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thanks Arsheesh. I'll be happy to see them when you do.

As always, I'm short of words (especially in english...) to describe the beauty of your maps, included this last one..

I admire your skills, your imagination, all the ideas that you have to make your maps specials (clouds, castle, dragon....)

You are a true inspiration to me ! Thanks so much for sharing your work !

And, as a castle-fan, I add extra applauses for the castle of Shadir !!!!

again : thanks ! That the best I can say...

Thank you JO That is a wonderful compliment.
I have some more castle pieces planned, when time away from work allows.

Just wonderful. Inspires me to want to get back at it which is great, cuz I need the inspiration since I'm low on energy for art lately.

Thanks Jax I know what you mean. I hope it gets you going. I always enjoy your work.

Another beautiful piece. And completed in a single day! I dream of that level of output!

I agree with ladiestorm and thomrey: this map would fit just as perfectly into a Miyazaki film as it would in some ancient fairytale.

Your ability to not only consistently create great maps, but seemingly do so effortlessly, is a mystery to me...but a mystery I am keen to solve

THW

Haha, well, thank you THW I had no idea it would come together quite so quickly.
I was actually surprised that the pencil work took less time than the color.
I thought it would be the other way round.

Would love to just see the pencil drawing, once again inspiration and awe all in the same package

Thanks snodsy
I will try to upload a pencil version for you snodsy.
Might get to that after all the comments here.

This is a wonderful composition; you really have a great sense for how to lay out the image and how to meld the soft hand-pencil with the digital labels and color.


You must have a top-notch nice big scanner. :-)

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Thanks jshoer I have a big scanner.. though.. it may not be top notch.
But it does get the job done, so I can't complain.

Absolutely stunning. Would rep you twice if I could!

Haha, thank you Klaus Once is more than enough, but I appreciate the sentiment as well.

Really beautifull map! Amazing work <3

Thanks so much Akae

[J.Edward]

And since snodsy asked about seeing a pencil version, I'll add that here.
I kept the title text on there... since things have a way of migrating around the net....
Just would rather have it migrate with the title on there.
Haldeshar [sketch] by sirinkman.jpg

[snodsy]

Thanks appreciate you always willing to share your work and process as I drool over your line work, another great map, thanks

[J.Edward]

It's amazing. There's a reason why I hold you as my biggest star around here.

Having that said, Im still lurking that city map.

Thanks Ilgoth Quite a compliment.

Very nice, I particularly like the surround

Thanks Rob

Wow!! Another incredible map!

Thanks Matthew

J.Edward, do you do all of your drawings this way? Do you ever do 100% digital work?

This must have been done with some impressive detail to be able to zoom in as far as we can and still keep quality on image.

Tiger

Hey Tiger - I do more of them as 100% digital. Occasionally I will return to traditional pieces like this.
It just depends on my mood, or what a client wants.

Thanks appreciate you always willing to share your work and process as I drool over your line work, another great map, thanks

You're welcome snodsy

[jshoer]

That's lovely! It really shows the breakdown of how much detail you accomplish with line vs how much detail you accomplish with shading. There's a tutorial in here somewhere! Or maybe a master class.

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[paulotutu]

Dude, that's amazing!!! Love the color palettes!
So many details and awesome drawing!

[ThomasR]

Thanks for that pencil work ! More study ahead

[Obbehobbe]

Nice work! I left the pencil/scan for a Wacom cintiq but may return to it after seeing this. What kind of pen did you use? Also, have you made some subtle work on the background (outside the borders) or is that the paper?