Galastan - hand-drawn city on a mountain

[rotti]

Eventually colours like blue, green and red are obviously natural. Like pink. Still, you won't make your old style map inked pink. A piece of art that we definietely have here, is supposed to pretend it's made by some medieval scribe. How lovely would be to see it made in sepia brown and yellow - kind of da vinci style.

[rotti]

As I can see - your awarded map (The High-empire of Korachan and the Inner Sea by vorropohaiah) is made in... guess what! In sepia. Why? Because this way it looks incredible.

[- Max -]

Hard to say without shading/lightning work. Imho the yellow dont work very well and yea grey is greenish on the second one. You could maybe try rather a desturated light brown or a grey blue?

[torstan]

How about a desaturated blue set to overlay? That should colour shift the background a little and keep it nice and saturated (might be a little purple, but a second layer set to colour at low opacity should help balance that out).

Looking really gorgeous.

[feanaaro]

I'd say that #2 is perfect as it is. The wall should not pop-out too much, so a grey-ish colour is good.

[Wingshaw]

Looking great, so far. I agree that the walls on the two examples don't work perfectly at the moment, and I think Max might be right about the light and shadows. Just to be different, though, as a suggestion what about toning up the red as a low opacity overlay; it might result in lower contrast with the building roofs, which might be what is needed.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Thanks for your suggestions, people! I'll give them a try.

[Freehand 5.5]

I'd say it would make sense to give the walls a colour similar to the mountain, because that was most likely the building material for the walls.
The grey tone seems to fit better in my opinion.
Shadows may be nice but you should keep it very subtle because after all the drawing has its emphasis on mapping and not on illustrating.

And: Wow!

[Lyandra]

That city looks amazing! I already cannot wait to see another one by you.

[Beoner]

Now that is something I'll have to try one day, yet I doubt I have the ability to do so.

A really beatiful map and piece of art, the same must be said about Val Nevan. I hope you can post more of your work, as it is a grea inspiration - at least for me.