May/June 2024 Challenge: The City of Endoth

[Tiana]

So in my mega lore, there is this city, the city of Endoth, located on a river by the mountains.

I have an old map of it, which is cute (I was testing a new style) but unfortunately very tiny and low res, it was just a thumbnail sketch and I can't find a larger copy so I never finished it, as well as a front-on illustration. These are what I will be using as reference for the map. As for which color palette I have selected, well, I think that will be PAINFULLY obvious very shortly...

But for now: references

endothnano.jpgendothoirtfolio.jpg

And for additional lore:

Dau map, another city from this setting done for the challenge in April 2022!

[Tiana]

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YES THAT IS RIGHT! I HAVE SELECTED THE HARDEST, MOST GARISH COLOR SCHEME POSSIBLE IN THIS CHALLENGE! To... probably... no one's surprise! I hope someone out there was hoping that someone was gonna go with the psychedelic neon map because YOWZA

Although I was very tempted to do the green and purple too, since that is also thematically appropriate.

I am using the exact colors so far with nothing new added, the river is just the pink at a lower opacity over the purple.

[Ifrix]

Haha, yeah when I made the challenge I did think if anyone was going to go for that palette, it would probably be you

Looking forward to seeing where it goes!

[Tiana]

There is also this option for how to set it up, where the land isn't the darker color and the darker color is only used for lineart flare. I'm not sure which is better.
endoth map 2024 alt.jpg

[Tiana]

Haha, yeah when I made the cahllenge I did think if anyone was going to go for that palette it would probably be you

Looking forward to seeing where it goes!

Thanks!

Yes, who else would dare to say, well, my map COULD look like this

endoth map 2024 it doesn't hurt the eyes.jpg

and that makes a lot of sense and looks good and doesn't hurt my eyes but...

...but I could have...

LURID POP PURPLE PINK AND ORANGE??? YEAH!

We will see if I can actually resolve this into something that looks good though, lol.

Quite frankly it was very good enter-the-challenge bait because I was like "ohhhh you put that there for me YOU KNOW I CAN'T SAY NO TO THAT"

[Tiana]

Experimentally leaning into the pop art nature of this. Possibly this reads better than the dark background? Then that leaves me with the dark purple to also use as labelling. Color variations are created with the original palette on different blend modes so far. I might stick with this base. We'll see!

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[Ink_alpinist]

Indeed a challenging colour pallete! kkkkk ansious for the result... Good that you have got a lot of creativity.

[Tiana]

Indeed a challenging colour pallete! kkkkk ansious for the result... Good that you have got a lot of creativity.

Thank you! I like lurid but this is a little out of even my comfort zone.

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I ended up giving some pop to the main roads and I'm experimenting a bit with fill now that the walls are done, testing out some calligraphy labels in the conlang. I also added a toning to the green space (which is in yellow) to help separate it from the orange water.

[Tiana]

I added a compass and a frame (possibly still in progress). This city is famous for their storytelling tapestries made of embroidery so I am using that for the frame.

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[Tiana]

Update. Filled in the rest of the buildings, maybe, and a bit more of the frame... and a crude legend with English markers to let you know what the things on the map are.

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