I'm rather new to this. What do you mean by "isometric-style" mountains?
I've begun working on a commissioned map for a novelist friend of mine, and I'm having lots of fun drawing mountains again. In this progress image (actually a screenshot from my iPad, in the app ProCreate) you can see those isometric-style mountains taking shape, and a bit of my process...drawing lots of little chevrons and then connecting them and filling them in with details. I'm always trying to "mix it up" a bit and create more interesting ridge lines, so that the mountain range doesn't just look like a bunch of little triangular traffic cones.
Also, you can see how I'm working the rivers into the mountains. Draw the rivers first, then lay the mountains down around them.
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I'm rather new to this. What do you mean by "isometric-style" mountains?
Really nice and very realistic! i love iso maps!
It means that the mountains seem to "stand up" from the map, as if you're looking down at them from a 30 degree or 45 degree angle. The other major style of mountain mapping we see around here are top-down mountains, where you're looking down on them as if from a satellite directly above.
Technically, the "isometric" name itself also refers to an intentional lack of perspective in the drawing. So, I haven't drawn the mountains at the top of the range as though they are taller and further away--not really--nor have I drawn the mountains at the bottom of the range in a way as to imply they're actually closer to the viewer. It's all an illusion. If I were doing an illustration of this world, rather than a map, I'd be taking perspective into account and trying to depict things as though they're being seen from a specific point in space.
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Open to cartographic commissions. Contact me: christian [at] stiehl.net
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Thank you. Appreciate the info.
Oh wow, those mountains look fantastic! Great job, so far. I presume the map will be line art only, and not coloured, since it's for a novel?
I'll be watching this develop with interest.
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Quite spectacular!