Small Island Style Emulation (de Fer)

[BookOwl]

I see what you mean about the rivers, but I like the mountains!

[Gidde]

I liked the mountains too, but I decided I was straying too far from the goal, so I hit the reset button. Here's the new version with all hand-done shading around the island, new rivers and new mountains (this is it for the mountains, I guess I should have said this is a very HILLY island).

[BookOwl]

I like this version a lot better than the other! The rivers are better looking too, I think. Nice

[Gidde]

Mountains and hills are done now, I think. It's certainly not an exact style emulation, but I think it's a lot closer now.

[geamon]

Awesome work Gidde! Keep it up.

[Gidde]

Thanks geamon!

[wally-d-feed]

Definitely a promising project ... I am really looking forward to seeing further process

[Coyotemax]

Holycarp!!! that's totally the look I've been going for all this time with my own hand drawn mountains, you've nailed it perfectly in my eyes.

Ok, now that work has settled back into a routine, I'm starting to feel the creative itch again, and you've just pushed me over the edge. It's time to start drawing again!

**dangit, i can't rep you for this, seems i've done so too recently... i think you deserve double rep off this project...**

[Gidde]

@ wally: Thanks! It's been fun so far

@ CM: Thanks, what high praise!! It's really good to see ya again

[Gidde]

Ok, it really goes against my instinct to bump this with so little progress, but I'm stuck and need a little help here, please.

I'm working on the settlements, so that I can put forests around them and fields in the rest of the empty places like deFer has on his, but I've never done the tiny-house type settlements before and I've hit a snag. The first city I did was all very even, tiny little buildings (by the biggest mountain). Then the second city I did was on the south coast, and the buildings grew. Now I'm trying to do the largest city (between the other two) and I realized I'm all over the map, as it were, on size. So ... here is my question, and it's multiple choice, so there's very little effort involved in answering

Are:
-- a) the small buildings much better and I should delete the other two cities and keep my buildings from growing?
-- b) the bigger buildings much better and I should delete the tiny-building'd city and keep my buildings from shrinking?
-- c) the size difference really isn't that noticeable and I should quit being so anal-retentive and draw the rest of them?
or -- d) they all suck and I should take a good long look at deFer's map and then try again.

If the answer's (d), please don't think I'll think less of you for saying so.

Oh, and try to ignore the fact that I haven't bled the ink -- once I do, they'll match the rest better.