October/November 2014 Challenge: Lingon's request

[Chashio]

Let me say first that this is a fantastic Challenge theme, and I'm thrilled that Lingon came back just in time for it and was willing to team up! and subsequently dump a fabulous request on me! The first bit is the guidelines we both agreed on and the second covers Lingon's parameters:

- natural media on paper or canvas
- size between 8x10 - 30x40
- nice quality, but not something that will take more than 20-30 hours of working time
- includes water of some type and some variety of altitude
- style, design, color by request - else open to whatever you want to work on or try
- for labels, there should be a title at the least, and... whatever else is desired/fitting I guess, within reason.

- acrylic painting, in that style, ish (refers to the landscape panorama style from this thread)
- Equatorial setting, a hot feeling
- A focus on the nature rather than human influence – if it's because the human influence is small, or because the cartographer doesn't find it important enough to make the map's main focus, I'll let you decide
- Story potential is never wrong

Started off with a few rough thumbnails:

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thumb sketch maps.jpg

He asked if it would be possible to mesh the bottom two together, with the harbor sketch being a fallback if the combination doesn't pan out.

[Chashio]

Got them patched together, though still mostly unrefined for now. There will be a few revisions/additions along the way, but I think I can prep the canvas to start transferring the sketch. Probably do a small study or two on paper to figure out colors and find any troublesome areas.

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thumb sketch patch.jpg

[Gidde]

What a great start! Looking forward to seeing this develop.

[Jaxilon]

This is awful because I haven't even started and I'm impressed already, lol. Nice work!

[Lingon]

This is awesome, it's beautiful already

[Chashio]

Thanks guys I'm looking forward to it too.

So, things slowed down for a time due to a hectic long weekend and life colliding, and I've only just begun to think about color sketches and canvas. But it'll get there. Lingon and I have been shooting ideas back and forth, and once we pin down a thing or two I'll have something up to show.

[Chashio]

A soft update. It's thoroughly inexact and missing a bunch of green, but here's a very loose preview of the color samples. I've started transferring the sketch onto the really big canvas and will hopefully have a decent value wash laid on by the end of the month.

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color sketch.jpg

[J.Edward]

This looks like it's going to be a really good one.

[Chashio]

This looks like it's going to be a really good one.

I hope so.

[Bogie]

Great perspective on the mountains!