Principal Areas of Interest in an especially boring location

[tilt]

whoa.. map overload... what a great bunch of maps - lovely that you take time to doodle - I gotta do that more

[Chashio]

whoa.. map overload... what a great bunch of maps - lovely that you take time to doodle - I gotta do that more

Hehe, I know, right? Any more and I'll be smothering y'all with maps. I'm glad you like them tilt [ I spend a very large amount of time doodling. I have piles of doodled maps lying around and more in sketchbooks and more in the studio. ... at some point I'll share them ]

These are beautiful!

(not that the statement really needs an exclamation mark, since I've never seen you do a bad one )

You have to develop them - all of them.... Pleeeeeease?

These ones came off pretty well and I like them a lot. [I have a bunch of bad ones as well ] I had lost these for a while... the files got screwed up a bit and I couldn't open them until today. I will develop them at some point, definitely.

This is an excellent kind of thing to challenge yourself at speed and actually also at the basics of composition and thumbnailing.
As always, these are very cool, even small and not fully done. And of course, you always brings fun and creative ideas with you. ;P

I need to try this myself at some point.

Yes indeed. Sometimes I think... well... most of the time I think I'm probably better at sketching stuff than bringing it to completion. I need to practice more on all fronts. Lots of practice. Yes.

How about now?

[J.Edward]

Hehe, yes, now would be an ideal time...
If only I could get Steam to update properly, then I could sketch too.

[Chashio]

I had a bit of fun sketching some more timed thumbnail maps this evening [on the back of some scrap paper] and I added some color notes to one of them [not timed, because I totally forgot]. Here ya go...

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[J.Edward]

Ooooh, I like those.
The first and third ones are my faves.
You capture a wonderful bird's eye view and have such splendid waterways, something I need to work on.
You are also a wiz with color too. ;P

[Josiah VE]

Really nice sketches!

[Chashio]

Ooooh, I like those.
The first and third ones are my faves.
You capture a wonderful bird's eye view and have such splendid waterways, something I need to work on.
You are also a wiz with color too. ;P

Thanks J. That is nice to hear, though I feel like I more often I miss on those things.

Really nice sketches!

Thanks Josiah Glad you enjoy them.

[Chashio]

I took the first 5min sketch from yesterday and loosely interpreted it into a slightly larger color sketch, which i scanned and then warped/fixed the horizon line some.
I didn't define as much of the foreground [or anything else] while painting because the wrongness of the horizon was throwing off my visualization.
I'll likely do more with this piece in PS at some point... got a hi-res scan so I can play with it about 3x larger and turn it into a print if anyone's interested.

pencil and acrylic on watercolor paper, 3 x 4 inches
small bit of photoshop fixing

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oh yeah, here's the original sketch it was based on, for reference...
04 23 2017 5mMapSketch1 KaitlinGray.png

[ThomasR]

*rubs his gollummy hands together* "Printsssss you said ?"

[Chashio]

*rubs his gollummy hands together* "Printsssss you said ?"

Haha Yes.
My brother gave me his printer since he had another (free) option at his workplace art department.
I've been figuring it out and running tests for a bit and will soon be able to offer fine art quality prints up to 13" wide... which is not really that large, I know, but a lot of my painting works are between small and tiny so it's a great starting point.