J's Inkman Experiment thread

[Josiah VE]

30 minutes for that colour!? Beautiful!

[Voolf]

Voolf, you're assuming he eats breakfast. I think he just recharges a battery or something.

Yeap, you got it right here.

[J.Edward]

I'd love my 30+ hours maps to look half as good as your 35ish experiments ...

Well, it took me years and years to be able to draw this stuff in five minutes

Wow, drawing this in such a short time.... this confirms my previous post in my thread, dont know if you read it J.E but i will paste it here.
I was talking with Mouse and the city map i mentioned is Archensheen

I hadn't seen that What thread was that in?
Hehe, more than one person has said about robots and machines..
I like robots and machines.
I laughed at the part about doing a city before breakfast.

Aye - I remember you saying that

John - I said this of Ilanthar the other day, and its just as applicable to you:

You are one of the Poets of Cartography we are lucky enough to mingle with on this forum on a daily basis

Thank you Mouse - that is a wonderful compliment.
It is ironic, as I do write often and I started writing poetic work when I was younger.
I write a bit every now and again too. Poetry, that is.

Hmm... Yes. Clearly not. [shakes head, chuckling at J.Edward's ridiculous comments]

Voolf, you're assuming he eats breakfast. I think he just recharges a battery or something.

Hehe, I don't actually eat breakfast ;P I usually only eat one meal a day.
And then drink coffee all day long

30 minutes for that colour!? Beautiful!

Thanks Josiah The watercolor style makes for faster work on color.

Yeap, you got it right here.

Oh, I am still slowly working on Algefar too, along with like a million other maps.

[ThomasR]

oh, i am still slowly working on algefar too, along with like a million other maps.

Yeaaaaaaaah ! I call it your Erwin Raisz map.

[nam37]

Thanks Chashio
Well, I took about 30 minutes to try to get some color going for the three 5 minute sketch ones, which I spent a bit more time on adding in some darker lines and such.

Do you do add color with Photoshop and a (wacom-style) tablet? If not, what do you use? The blending is very natural looking.

[J.Edward]

Yeaaaaaaaah ! I call it your Erwin Raisz map.

Hehe Raisz is a worthy aspiration.
I have a map I haven't shown yet that relates to Skenara..
I think you'll like it. It's much like Algefar, but I did it before working on Algefar.

Do you do add color with Photoshop and a (wacom-style) tablet? If not, what do you use? The blending is very natural looking.

Hey nam, I use photoshop and a wacom. I do all of the color work in Photoshop.
I've worked for a while at trying to replicate some natural media techniques in digital format.

[ThomasR]

I have a map I haven't shown yet that relates to Skenara..
I think you'll like it. It's much like Algefar, but I did it before working on Algefar.

Cannot wait to see it

[Voolf]

I hadn't seen that What thread was that in?

It is here, The conversation which led to it starts from post #24. We were just wondering how you can draw such fast, beautiful buildings all the time and dont get tired of it

[J.Edward]

Cannot wait to see it

It is pretty cool. I am not sure if I will color it first before posting.

It is here, The conversation which led to it starts from post #24. We were just wondering how you can draw such fast, beautiful buildings all the time and dont get tired of it

Thanks Voolf

[J.Edward]

So, Chashio was doing this map thing and I got the idea to take that oblique view and see what the whole world would look like.
It is a small deviation from that image. What we realized was that this would be a rather small world.
That seemed like a sort of fun thing to do... little worlds.
So, this is the first in a possible series of Little Worlds.
Maybe even stories from Little Worlds.

This is Grey World, or the Lands of Chaoshi Unogwaja
Chaoshi is a character in several worlds of mine, based loosely on our mutual friend, Chashio.

K-world Grey World 01a.jpg

This is just at a sort of advanced sketch stage right now.
Colors will prob change and land features are still being developed.