Reply With QuoteAnd an update with some darker shadows and a few more colours in there.
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[WITHDRAWN] January Entry: Western Mythkir Bay - Ship's Graveyard
So I was in the process of putting together a map for my home game and thought it might fit rather nicely into this month's challenge. I love Tear's dark colours of Mythkir Bay. With the corruption from the south and sparse landscape I thought it could do with an old sea battle. Here's the map so far - a ships graveyard deep beneath the waves of Mythkir Bay:
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Moved from the original WIP thread (with all the associated line art and WIP stuff) here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=8621
Last edited by torstan; 01-09-2010 at 11:59 PM.
And an update with some darker shadows and a few more colours in there.
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Last edited by torstan; 01-09-2010 at 11:57 PM.
That's cool. Reminds me of my old fish tank from when i was a kid too.
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Looking awesome. Love the palette you've got going.
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That is looking really great. From your refined sketch I could tell this would be a really nice piece of work.
Thanks guys. Fiddling with the colours a bit more, added a runic spiral to the sea floor, and a few light rays coming from above to give some sense of depth.
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Last edited by torstan; 01-09-2010 at 11:55 PM.
Great stuff here Torstan!
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... and a bit more tinkering. I added a subtle lighting effect over all the flat surfaces to simulate the effect of light coming through the surface of the water. To get this I used Clouds+Difference Clouds. Bumped the levels to get sharper lines. Inverted it so that the lines were white. Stretched and squashed the whole thing to get a more elongated pattern. Set the layer to soft light. Masked the whole layer and then brought it back by brushing the mask with a low opacity white fuzzy brush in the regions I wanted to light.
I'm unreasonably pleased with how that came out.
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Last edited by torstan; 01-09-2010 at 11:52 PM.
Wicked! Awesome map
That lighting effect looks awesome, well done. I just opened up this image and the previous one and kept flicking between them to see it. Great stuff.
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