March 2016 Challenge: Silver Hollow

[Greg]

Okay, now the Lite challenge is out of the way (well, almost), I'm going to dedicate a bit of time to enter in my first big challenge. The Lite challenge before last was a crypt/tomb, so I don't think I'll be doing another one of those just yet.

Instead, I'm going to map out Silver Hollow, a city located underneath the surface in a large underground cavern. I haven't really created any lore behind it, and I might do as I go along, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Anywho, not much done so far, as I've only really just started, but here is a pretty rough painterly background for the cavern done in photoshop. I plan to add in the city in the bottom left in a less abstract and more clear style done on paper and scanned in.

### Latest WIP ###
Underground City.jpg

[Lingon]

Interesting start! Is that a river coming in from a cave opening?

[Greg]

Kind of, hopefully it will become more clear as I progress!

[Greg]

Decided to make this my first all digital map, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. Anyway, I'm still hand-drawing every element of it so have just started the time consuming process of constructing some assets for it. So here are the assets for a tower and one of the styles of house.

Buildings for Silver Hollow.jpg

I plan to do make all the elements separately then add them to the final piece, where, hopefully, I can blend them into a finished piece. I'll just have to wait and find out how it turns out.

[Greg]

Okay, here are a couple more buildings for the town. Two different styles of housing and a basic tavern.

More Buildings for Silver Hollow.jpg

[ChickPea]

These are cute. I really like the stonework.

[Tonnichiwa]

Wow GLS! you can draw like that and you think my maps are good? If I could draw like that my maps would be so awesome. I really love the way you drew your buildings.
I can't seem to get used to my Wacom tablet and pen. And even if I could my art wouldn't look much different than the drawing I posted first in my thread for this challenge.

Anyway, I really like what I am seeing here and can't wait to see what you do with it.

[Greg]

@ChickPea, Thanks, I'm pleased you like them!

@Tonnichiwa, Thank you for saying so. I haven't really drawn much until doing maps, and sometimes things come out well for me and other times they don't. Drawing with a tablet and pen is weird and I find it harder to get the lines I want compared to doing it on paper. But, at the same time, I can erase things and try them again much more easily. I really liked your start with your start with the Underworld and hope you continue with it, as I thought it was pretty well drawn and captured the essence I felt you were after and to me that is more important in a map.

[Greg]

Okay, here's an update on the actual map this time. I've started adding in a few elements as well as a key. I plan to blend in all the buildings and everything a lot more before it is finished rather than them just looking like they've been planted there from nowhere (which obviously at this point they have ).

Hope you like it!

### Latest WIP ###
Underground Cave Map rough.jpg

Still a lot more work to do on it though!

[Southern Crane]

This is really cool, I love the building styles.