Commission 2016: Lightbay & Orden

[tainotim]

Haven't posted anything in a while. Been a busy month!

Anyhow, here is a commission piece I finished today. This was extra fun to do because the client wanted a map similar to this map, which was one of my first maps last year. Still much to learn, but I think It shows some progress

Cheers,

Tainotim

[Chick]

Hey tainotim, nice job!

The greyscale map seems much too dark to me, and I think you must have just desaturated the colored one. If I may suggest, you could try using something like photoshop to lighten the entire picture considerably, and then to bring back the things that need to be dark, increase the contrast.

I just tried that on your greyscale map and I think it looks much better. Of course if your intention was to be very dark, that's a whole other story .... I won't hijack your thread by posting it, but if you would like to see it, just email me at yodercm@earthlink.net .

[jshoer]

I agree with Chick, the grayscale one just doesn't have quite the same contrast level as the color version.

Your maps always strike me as being from an unusually oblique perspective - I like it! It's a signature style.

[Bogie]

Great maps, very cool!

[- Max -]

Nice map Tainotim. Though I also have to agree about the greyscale version. It lacks some heavier contrast to be as pleasant as the colored one.

[Domino44]

Damn Tainotim! Your work just keeps getting better, I just love your style so much! I agree that the grayscale version could be better but I still really like that version. The colored one though is amazing! Your illustrations are incredibly descriptive and I love their detail.

[Deadshade]

Amusing detail - at least it amused me.
Novy Svet means "New World" in many slavic languages. At the same time the cyrillic alphabet uses b to mean v in latin alphabet.
So your SW town Novy Sbet looks like if a Russian wanted to write Novy Svet in latin alphabet and subconsciously glitched into cyrillic alphabet while wanting to write the v

[Sapiento]

Love it! Too bad I can't rep you at the moment.

[Carnifex]

Haven't posted anything in a while. Been a busy month!

Anyhow, here is a commission piece I finished today. This was extra fun to do because the client wanted a map similar to this map, which was one of my first maps last year. Still much to learn, but I think It shows some progress

Cheers,

Tainotim

I love the color one! If you use PS you could use the color to grayscale conversionin the image menu.

[tainotim]

Big thanks everyone! Really happy that people like it. Hopefully there will be another with the same theme shortly

I definitely concur about the grayscale version. It's just a straight conversion from color in PS, without any work to it. Not part of the commission or anything. Guess I added it mostly for my own sake. The full size highres version is not as dark!

Cheers,

Tainotim