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?!?
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 it looks good like that
oh ya... the mountains really show ... mountains now ... coming together great now
Looks very sweet. Reminds me of some of the Topo Maps of New Zealand. Try this link
http://www.linz.govt.nz/core/topogra...q32/index.html
Try the saving to disk the PartB Hi-Res-JPG and look at the bottom left peninsula.