[Award Winner] Hand drawn hills - a quick tutorial.

[Ramah]

Thanks all. I'm glad that people are finding something useful in this.

This is great, man. I always wondered my my hand-drawn style looks so simple...it's that third layer - I do mine with outlines and shading layers but never thought about that third (hollows) layer.

Yeah, without the layer to join the hills together they can look ok but they look like individual hills rather than a range. When I was first struggling with how to do the hills on Vaniya I went through several attempts trying to get them to look right. They either looked too spaced apart or if I moved them all closer together so that there was no space then they just looked too busy and clustered. It was the shading between the hills that allowed me to go in the middle of those two extremes.

Your map looks great by the way. I love it when you go for a hand drawn style and look forward to you posting the finished product if you can.