Val Nevan

[Blaidd Drwg]

No, I do not consider Máisandras a failure
But I've wanted to do an isometric* map for quite some time and every attempt so far was a complete disaster. Usually because I want to get to the fun parts of drawing and skip planning and sketching things out first. I never posted those, of course

Starting from both ends like that, how do you avoid smudging earlier work as you add lines?

Not really. I drew the castle in the top left corner first as a sort of scale reference for myself and only a very light general layout of the city plan in pencil. Now I'm working from the bottom up because of overlapping buildings. The ink doesn't smudge at all and the pencil lines I erase immediately once I've inked the building. I'm constantly switching between pencilling a few buildings, inking them, then erasing.

What I'm more worried about is scale, projection and drawing vertical lines vertical.

* I say isometric, but that's not really what this is. I don't what to call it ...

[Hai-Etlik]

* I say isometric, but that's not really what this is. I don't what top call it ...

It looks like an Oblique projection to me.

[Seraphine_Harmonium]

* I say isometric, but that's not really what this is. I don't what top call it ...

You could maybe call it "aerial" or "bird's eye" view