Feb / Mar '17 Lite Challenge: The Grey Dawn

[Greg]

Firstly, apologies to Mouse and Dan. I said I wasn't going to enter this one, but thanks to you guys, I ended up changing my mind!

I've not got very far at the moment and didn't do my flying frigate type ship in the end since Dan was doing similar. I've opted instead for a battlemap style plan of a battleship. I've not actually decided much about the ship so far so we'll see how it goes.

Here's a quick photo I took of its start:



Also, it's my first time in a long while properly working with pen and paper again which is a bit strange, but nice to do again.

[DanielHasenbos]

Welcome to the challenge, nice to see you joined in! Not much to comment on so I'll just keep an eye on it and watch it develop.

[Bogie]

Welcome to the challenge GLS. Yup, that's what I say when I can't quite get started on a project,,, "Frigate".

[Mouse]

Hey GLS

Welcome on board!

I don't think I've seen you doing a hand drawn map before, but I wander around with my brain half asleep quite a lot of the time, so don't mind me if you've already done quite a lot of them and you're really quite famous for them

Can't really say much about the drawing just yet, but... and don't take this the wrong way... that's one heck of a lovely piece of paper you've got there. What is it?

(You have to forgive me. I'm a landscape painter, and the sight of a really cool painting surface snags my attention every time! LOL!)

EDIT: Oh and Bogie - that sounds like a great idea for a new Challenge - draw a Frigate map!!! LOL!

[Greg]

Welcome to the challenge, nice to see you joined in! Not much to comment on so I'll just keep an eye on it and watch it develop.

Thanks Dan! I wish I could just watch it develop too, but alas works needs to be done!

Welcome to the challenge GLS. Yup, that's what I say when I can't quite get started on a project,,, "Frigate".

Haha, I love bad jokes sometimes... not to say yours is bad... I mean it's good... but it is bad too...

Hey GLS

Welcome on board!

I don't think I've seen you doing a hand drawn map before, but I wander around with my brain half asleep quite a lot of the time, so don't mind me if you've already done quite a lot of them and you're really quite famous for them

Can't really say much about the drawing just yet, but... and don't take this the wrong way... that's one heck of a lovely piece of paper you've got there. What is it?

(You have to forgive me. I'm a landscape painter, and the sight of a really cool painting surface snags my attention every time! LOL!)

EDIT: Oh and Bogie - that sounds like a great idea for a new Challenge - draw a Frigate map!!! LOL!

Yep, world famous for them! No, I haven't done many for a long time, so you haven't missed much. I've only really just done doodles in my sketchbook by hand for mapping recently. As for the paper, it is lovely. It's actually a watercolour pad, so might be right up your street. I bought it from a Trago Mills somewhere and it's got the super snappy title of "Daler Rowney The Langton Extra Smooth (Hot Pressed) Grain Satiné - Watercolour 140lb 12in x 9in" Essentially I think it's just the one with the green cover in their Langton range.

I've never actually used it for painting mind, just found it nice for ink.

[Mouse]

...As for the paper, it is lovely. It's actually a watercolour pad, so might be right up your street. I bought it from a Trago Mills somewhere and it's got the super snappy title of "Daler Rowney The Langton Extra Smooth (Hot Pressed) Grain Satiné - Watercolour 140lb 12in x 9in" Essentially I think it's just the one with the green cover in their Langton range.

I've never actually used it for painting mind, just found it nice for ink.

Ah-ha! I think I may have a pad of that someplace around here in my art chest... if I can just manage to find the chest itself under the 4-bed house clutter I've still got piled around me in my shoebox sized 1-bed flat...

I've painted plenty of watercolour sketches as preliminary works to oil paintings, but I would never have thought of doing an inked map on one!

[Straf]

Nice one GLS. I'm not really familiar with 'battlemap style' - is it the style of turn-based strategy games where there are a number of tiles you can move across in a given turn and certain actions available?

[Greg]

Nice one GLS. I'm not really familiar with 'battlemap style' - is it the style of turn-based strategy games where there are a number of tiles you can move across in a given turn and certain actions available?

To be honest, Straf, I just use that term for any maps that are plan views of a scene, or a building, or whatever where you can clearly see the layout of a place. They can be with grids or what not, but equally without. In my mind just as long as they are to scale, and, I guess you could imagine and plan a battle of some size taking place on them, then they are a battlemap.

Anywho, a quick update. I'm still hoping I'll finish it in time but we'll see!

### Latest WIP ###

[Mouse]

I'm glad to see you working on this

The Grey Dawn seems to be positively bristling with guns, which, providing they aren't electronically operated, would be more that capable of shooting a rather big hole in the Cephalopod! LOL!

[DanielHasenbos]

Looks cool! What's the scale of this ship?
Hope you'll finish it in time!