Kacey's Practice sketches, experiments and not so mapy things

[kacey]

I'm hopping this thread can be sort of a catch all for the things I don't normally post here at the guild because I don't want to start a million threads for tiny things that will probably never be finished or are just for practice and learning. I may also post some other non mappy things here that I work on when I'm not doing maps.

As always feel free to critique my work, I hope that this thread will help me improve on some of the things that I struggle with.

Like trees.... I did this little sketch today to practice trees, the mountains here aren't spectacular but that wasn't the point, I may try colouring and shading it later when the little ones go to sleep. It's not very big so sorry for the poor resolution, I think it was like 3 inches then I enlarged it to 6 and sharpend it a bit but still the quality is not good.

Little tree test .png

[kacey]

I added some color and shading, definitely need more practice on trees... Sorry again for the poor resolution.

Little experiment map.png

[Ilanthar]

It's looking great, Kacey!
Your forests are very nice. Did you try to indicate the topography under them? Sometimes, it "anchors" them more efficiently in the land, so to speak.

[Voolf]

Looks really well done Kacey.

[Arkidemis]

The trees made the B&W version look a bit off, but with they coloring the map looks very nice.

[kacey]

It's looking great, Kacey!
Your forests are very nice. Did you try to indicate the topography under them? Sometimes, it "anchors" them more efficiently in the land, so to speak.

Thanks Ilanthar, that's a really good tip I hadn't thought of that, I'll definitely try to accentuate that in the next one. I'd like to try some more cliffs and chasms too that's anther area I feel I'm lacking in.

Looks really well done Kacey.

Thanks Voolf.

The trees made the B&W version look a bit off, but with they coloring the map looks very nice.

Thanks Arkidemis, I agree with you on the version with only lines, if I were doing a proper black and white map I would definitely do things differently that's something I'd like to tackle in the future as well as full color which I haven't managed to pull off yet. I depend too much on the back round texture and haven't managed to make anything look good in anything other then sepia tones and subtle colours so I feel a little limited in the styles I'm able to produce.

[ThomasR]

That's great to see you start such a thread as it means more maps from you And I love that style !

[Meshon]

Hey, this looks great. I think it's really cool that you did the outlining with the intention of colouring, I hadn't thought of that before. I really like the ravine a lot, and those mountains are cool.
Cheers,
Meshon

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[ChickPea]

Lovely work, kacey. I'm really enjoying this style of yours.

[kacey]

Thanks Thomas, Meshon and ChickPea I appreciate the kind words.