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    Default March/April 2011 Lite Challenge Entry: Watery Cavern

    I just saw what the latest Lite Challenge category was today, and I feel silly for not noticing sooner, I love dungeon tiles!

    So I think I'm gonna throw my hat in and try my hand at my first competition. I started doodling while at work, trying to come up with a neat tile concept that would be fun to draw and useful to use. It got me thinking "What does every dungeon need?" The answer: lots of things, but I'm gonna go with a seeping watery hole filled with fungus. Fun!

    Here is my pencil sketch first concept, with the walls inked in. I hope to start in earnest on this project very soon.

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    Nice sketch. Looks good.
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    Cool. Kind of looks like a stomach. (What is wrong with me..) looking forward to watching this develop.
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    very nice ... and good to show that one can go with the organic look as well
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    Looks like a fine start.
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    Here's the next update.

    Sketched out the walls and ledges, pillars, and pools on a tablet. Masked and filled the preliminary shadows. Inked in a portcullis.

    Next up, put in some mute stone textures and some room features.

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    I like it and I'm curiuos to see how it will look like with the textures.

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    Thanks Katto, your entry is looking pretty rad too.

    In update news, Here's an update.

    Reworked the room contours and shadows to a more organic presentation. Still preliminary, the shadows will need to be blurred and blended later, but I like the look better for now.

    Still trying to decide how to texture the floor.

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    Looks good
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    Thanks Ryan K

    Progress update. I decided on a texture style for the cavern floor. I messed around with textures to fill in the negative space in the walls, but I wasn't sure how this would jive with the contest requirements of solid black lines for walls so I am leaving the void space in the wall regions white for now. If necessary I can fill them black also, though I personally don't like the look (way to much black).

    Toyed with some shading gradients to give the room more depth perspective, but I think I will just shade this by hand sometime in the future instead of using a gradient.

    Here is the latest WIP

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