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Thread: May/June 2024 Challenge: Bay of Biscay

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    Default May/June 2024 Challenge: Bay of Biscay

    I thought I'd take a punt on this. Spoiler: I haven't gone out in a wee boat to survey the coastline or anything so I've just chosen an old map and traced it. It's circa 1750 I think. I just want to try something out using a very limited colour palette. I've chosen the green/blue one (#1 I think) and added one more colour to it - the parchment/background colour. I'm going to attempt to create a dithering effect using the two colours with the parchment as a background base colour. i.e. no colour, blue (water), green (land). I've greyscaled the border for now - I've used a plasma filter to try to make it a bit wishy-washy and I'll attempt to do some colour bleed as well. Anyway this is the starting point:

    ### Latest WIP ###
    Bay of Biscay.jpg
    I started a DeviantArt page
    https://strafwibble.deviantart.com/

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    And here it is coloured in. Right now it's just the colours of the palette. A few labels, a compass rose, maybe a scale, and this would be a map. But this is gold medal territory so now Straf needs to do something a bit more out of his comfort zone. This amount of pigment? Really?

    ### Latest WIP ###
    Bay of Biscay.jpg
    I started a DeviantArt page
    https://strafwibble.deviantart.com/

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    Go Straf go! Leave your comfort zone! For the glory of the Guild!

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