Mountain test:
Any preferences between the two types of mountain? Can't really nail this at the moment and it is irritating me. I'll pick this one up again tomorrow.
Mountain test:
Any preferences between the two types of mountain? Can't really nail this at the moment and it is irritating me. I'll pick this one up again tomorrow.
The upper mountain... with the darker accents.... coincidently ... this is how I used to make all my mountains for many years.... I like it
oh ... and .... SCALE?!?
Originally Posted by torstan
Mountain test:
Any preferences between the two types of mountain? Can't really nail this at the moment and it is irritating me. I'll pick this one up again tomorrow.The upper mountain... with the darker accents.... coincidently ... this is how I used to make all my mountains for many years.... I like it
oh ... and .... SCALE?!?
Hmmm... I wonder how it would look if you put the ridge lines like on the upper one over top of the lower one, and then blurred/smudged the borders(smudge better IMO) to get it to blend the white with the parchment background.....
FYI, this is a great map.. I love your style with the hand drawn look, I just wish I could do that...
Joe
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Agreed, especially love that water color look.
Okay, made some decisions on the moutains. The line art wil now look like this:
Thanks for the compliments. I like the style too, but is still needs tweaking. I thought I'd play with a different hand-drawn style to all the iso-mountains we've been seing recently, but now I understand why people do iso mountains - much quicker to draw
I first started drawing those kinds of mountains because of dragonlance maps ... if you ever seen any of those... that was why I originally started drawing them in that fashion because it looked different and cool and I wanted to show off to the ladies...
as a maybe, you might try a bit of shading from the ridge down to sort of show some height and elevation .... just a thought tho
Had a look at the DL maps - I see what you mean.
Okay, lots of progress here. Added a second dodge/burn layer to get more detail on the mountains. Also added snow and grass and darkened the sea.
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