A new town

[Rochnan]

Maaaan, this is the kind of map I would like to have on my wall. The details! The craftmanship! It's gorgeous!

[Chlodowech]

Thanks a lot to you as well Rochnan, and glad that you like it!

I started doing some of the water reflections on the river, mainly to have some progress to show, since another dozen of tree shadows is just boring to look at

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[AntonioFrade]

Awesome map!! And yes!! Alsace is marvellous. I have the luck to visit it nearly Xmas and I only can recommend to everyone to go here.

Very, very good work Chlodowech!

[QED42]

I'm loving following your work on this map, can't wait to see the finished version!

[Rochnan]

Those are some nice reflections...I'm taking notes here for my sketchbook!

[Chlodowech]

I‘m slowly but surely running out of ways to say thanks for all the nice words , so it’s just THANKS now

And again, i have worked a bit on the map again, the majority of the trees has their its shadows now.

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This time, i‘ve got two questions as well:

First of all, i still haven’t got an idea what to do with the space in between the town wall and the houses of the upper town - my first idea were vineyards, but that feels rather odd concerning the fact that there‘d be a lot of empty space inside the walls and a large suburb outside. So if you have any better idea i‘d be glad if you tell me what it is.

Then there’s still the mountain range in the background left to be done, and i have literally no clue how to do that. Since i‘ll use watercolouring to do the shadows anyway, i thought about doing the mountains with a technique that relies mostly on that, but i don’t really know how. So, same thing about this question, if anyone got ideas and/or examples, please let me know

[Chlodowech]

Another update, the drawing part is done apart from the border and the subjects of the two questions of the last post (and some of the water reflections which i forgot )

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[Chlodowech]

Last one for today, the stuff i mentioned on the last post is now done (still except for the subjects of the questions)

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[MistyBeee]

Superb, as always !

In case it helps, I took some pictures for you this morning, from the amazing Topographia Alstaiæ by Matthæ Meriani :
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I tried to find examples for in wall area and for mountains in the background

[ThomasR]

This is splendid as are your pics Beee !