July/Aug '20 Lite Challenge: Tropikopolis

[Kisachik the Wanderer]

Hello Friends! How's it going?

I'm mapping an archipelago, so far anyway. My initial Idea was to make this shape a body of water, or a sinkhole of some sort, but you know how it goes with creative ideas... Maybe this might turn out to be something completely different as well.

I have this basic composition of the shapes, but it's a rough idea, some of them will probably get edited out. The large shape on the main island is going to be a forest, or a settlement, or, who knows, it could end up being a volcano... We'll see.

### Latest WIP ###

Tropikopolis preview.png

[Bogie]

Welcome to the Challenge Kisachik

[Kisachik the Wanderer]

Hello again, Friends!

Hey, it's still quiet around here, wasn't this one of the most popular challenges last year?

I'm not yet sure how to paint this, here's my third already attempt at putting those lands in. This is very much an experiment.

I'm working from dark shapes this time. I had put a sandy colour first, but it was difficult to look at and work with for some reason. I have also simplified the shapes for now, and will start drawing the coastlines when I figure out some good base texture for the land, because the detailed lines were too distracting to work with as well. The sea has the colours that I want; I've always wanted to learn to paint those lovely turquoise waters over the reefs, so this is a good opportunity to try out ideas and make a few mistakes, until something nice comes out of it.

### Latest WIP ###

Tropikopolis preview 2.png

[Kisachik the Wanderer]

Hi there!

I'm still not sure where this is going, but hey, now I have more colours...

I think the important thing is to just keep going, so here's an update. Yes, I know, it's bad, but it just needs about 150 more hours.

### Latest WIP ###

Tropikopolis preview 3.png

[Bogie]

Liking the colors!

[Kisachik the Wanderer]

I have to rethink the scale of things here... or something. Anyway, what a crazy experiment so far, and every time I look, I see little progress. I have to think of some shortcuts... The shape constraint sure is making this a slow process.

But I like my newest rocks, I think I'm getting the hang of those.

### Latest WIP ###

Tropikopolis preview 4.png

[Bogie]

Nice rocks!

[SkryNRiv]

It looks so nice!

[Greason Wolfe]

Definitely some nice coloring on this one. It may just be my tired eyes, but it seems like there is some slight perspective shifting in a few places or maybe a bit of extra blur in those areas. Can't be certain though.

[Tiana]

Nice colors. It's an attractive one to be sure.