Ok. I'm putting my pencils and stuff away now... John, you're not a cartographer, you're an artist, in every sense of the word, that draws maps.
Ok. I'm putting my pencils and stuff away now... John, you're not a cartographer, you're an artist, in every sense of the word, that draws maps.
Thank you Voolf Glad you are enjoying it.
Hehe, i aim to please, Mouse
Thanks JO
There is a lot you can do with little squiggles or dots or lines.
Arrrrggg... the zombie still crawls through the tomb of mappery!!!
Thanks Ilanthar
Thanks chashio
Ya gotta pull those pencils back out Damon, ya gotta.
There was a time I felt the same when looking at some people's work. For real.
Best thing - practice. Try new things. Practice. Work on core principles. Practice.
Oh, and practice. A lot. Draw as often as you possibly can. Best thing you can do.
And thank you very much. That was incredibly nice to read.
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Okay... so, Chashio was showing her 5 minute sketch maps in a thread the other day and it got me thinking of doing the same.
I did some 5 minute sketches, a 3 minute sketch, and a 2 minute sketch.
It was interesting what you think to draw under pressure. I went straight for the top down, initially.
Then I tried to get myself going in a perspective direction.
5 Minute sketches --- and then --- 3 + 2 Minutes sketches
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As a note.. I added a bit of a darker line on those 5 minute sketches, after the fact.
Now I will try to speed paint them... maybe. If I can stand it.
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No 1 Minutes?
Those look fabulous. Much cleaner with the line work than my technique, but... different styles. I've always liked shading.
It is interesting what you fall into; I definitely have a preference for the panoramic views and struggle more with top down, though I pull them out occasionally.
These are really nice J. That bottom one on the first page reminds me a bit of your Harlasea map for some reason.
Thanks Chashio
Yeah, trying to break trends in your own methods can be tricky.
It's so easy to fall back into what you always do.
Ironically, I think I was thinking of Harlasea a bit at a point while doing that third one.
Well, I took about 30 minutes to try to get some color going for the three 5 minute sketch ones, which I spent a bit more time on adding in some darker lines and such.
Perhaps an additional 1-6 minutes on each. Probably 1 minute on sketch 1, 4 minutes on sketch 2, and possibly 6 minutes on sketch 3 [though maybe more].
It is... okay, but, clearly not enough time for me to really get it going well.
Still, it is a good experiment to do just to see what you do and how you do it so you can look for ways to change, improve, add in new techniques, etc.
And it's fun.
30 minutes color total for all 3 images together
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Well, it took me years and years to be able to draw this stuff in five minutes
I hadn't seen that What thread was that in?
Hehe, more than one person has said about robots and machines..
I like robots and machines.
I laughed at the part about doing a city before breakfast.
Thank you Mouse - that is a wonderful compliment.
It is ironic, as I do write often and I started writing poetic work when I was younger.
I write a bit every now and again too. Poetry, that is.
Hehe, I don't actually eat breakfast ;P I usually only eat one meal a day.
And then drink coffee all day long
Thanks Josiah The watercolor style makes for faster work on color.
Oh, I am still slowly working on Algefar too, along with like a million other maps.
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