Kai's sketchbook

[KaiAeon]

Playing around with some sand dunes, but these look more like hills

[rdanhenry]

Dunes are just nomadic hills, so they're going to look similar. Throw a sandy color wash onto those and I think they'll do fine as dunes.

[KaiAeon]

I will give it a try.

[Arimel]

I think they look alright as dunes. It all comes down to the scale and color (for my maps at least! My dunes tend to have less substantial edges but seem to be the same size, in many cases, to my hills).

Dunes are just nomadic hills, so they're going to look similar. Throw a sandy color wash onto those and I think they'll do fine as dunes.

I love this description. I can just picture a hill with a small bag-on-a-stick over its shoulder walking into the distance

[KaiAeon]

Thanks, @Arimel

I played around with some colours and changed the shape of the sand dunes.

[Simkin]

Hhi kai, good work with colours, but I think dunes are more "soft". Softer than the first version (those that seems like hills).

[KaiAeon]

Hi Simkin, I will try what you said. I was going for a blend between the texturing of the hilly dunes and that proposed by Josh Storlaz.

Here's an oasis I tried my hand at.

Back to the drawing board...

[KaiAeon]

Some more experiments with sand dunes...

[Arimel]

That looks pretty good to me! Those actually look like palm trees instead of the windmills I create

Edit: Despite just missing beating the latest post, my comment still stands.

What size are you doing these tests in?

[KaiAeon]

Thanks, Arimel!

I'm using the 1inch map format (1" × 1") that @XploringMap made a challenge of earlier in the year.