Jan / Feb '17 Lite Challenge: Opikanoba, daughter of the mists

[ThomasR]

Thanks everybody !

I plan on dimming a tad bit more the blue to get a sterner feeling, sorry Joel And big thanks for that "close to perfect" Mouse What would you tweak to better the sea ?

I think I won't color the forests as I want a map FROM the world and not only OF the world. It's not supposed to be a fancy piece ... says the man who had fun drawing the skull compass.

About the compass, thanks Daniel ! I wanted to keep the ivory feel of the map and the bone. Do you think that works ?

Next I'll try to do the canopy and the shadows on the mountains (on the forest and coasts too). I might have gone crazy with the mountains and maybe I'll redo them more simply to have a less fractured shading. What do you think ?

[Mouse]

I think the sea should be taken more to the ultramarine side of blue - which is what you meant by a sterner feeling isn't it

I agree on leaving the forest not coloured, but I also notice that you have used a very cold almost silver grey to do the skull. Perhaps a colour more in line with the parchment itself? Bone is astonishingly warm in colour unless its been bleached by the sun, and even then its still a warm white rather than a cold white.

The mountains might look more impressively 'mountainy' if they weren't so minutely fractured, but don't take it too far the other way

Looking forward to seeing the next WIP!

[Bogie]

I think the Skull compass is fantastic!

[Ilanthar]

The coast is very broken... and I guess there are a lot of reefs, underwater. Nice watery colors and great compass (t'es un spécialiste pour dessiner des crânes maintenant, non? ).

[Greg]

This is looking great Thomrey! Loving the colours and the great linework! By the sound of it, I think you're definitely heading in the right direction with everything already so I probably don't need to say anything more!

One thing I might try with the skull compass and rhumbs is just to fade them out a bit to make them look a bit more worn into the parchment, as I don't think they quite match the same scratchy style the rest of the piece has. It might not work at all, but it could look pretty cool, especially if you make the fading slightly uneven.

Also, to really nitpick those rhumbs don't quite align with the compass point zoomed all the way in.

[DanielHasenbos]

Yeah as Mouse said, perhaps a slightly warmer white for the skull would really help to blend the skull with the rest of the map.

[Josiah VE]

I see a slightly different dragon scull in the land form. (the drawing is an even more child-like impression of a dragon than yours Mouse. )


Good job so far, the map is looking awesome.

[DarkInfinity]

Are you sure?

Ok then - LOL!

Just don't laugh too much at my childlike dragon impressions

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That should go into the challenge suggestions, Maps with hidden pictures or maps that resemble animals or something like that...

That is looking really good Thomrey. And thanks for the background, I will have to try that out sometime.

[Abu Lafia]

Somehow i missed the new challenge entries so far. This is a fantastic start Thomas and the subtle colours fit the parchment background very nicely indeed. The forest outline could be a tad more squiggly(?) or bubbly if you dont want to colour it in my view.
Btw. here's another possible dragon living in the map.

[Straf]

Hahaha! Poor thomrey, but these fan arts are hilarious