Quote Originally Posted by FrancescaBaerald View Post
They are both excellent maps! I prefer the first one because of the fantastic depth effect you have created
Thank you Francesca!

Quote Originally Posted by mat_r View Post
wow, the colors and the lighting on the first one are very cool!
What's your process for this one? Did you use 3d software to help with the shadows?
Thank you Mat! The layout, shading and coloring were all done in Krita, a free paint program (no 3d software involved). I mean all I did really was determine the direction of lighting and then draw in the shadows and shading by hand. I divided this into two steps: 1. add shadows to the lowest points (i.e. to the ground and vegetation that would be shaded by larger objects; 2. shade the trees themselves. I did however use a shortcut for shading the columns of the memorial: basically I created a horizontal rectangular selection, filled in a shadow for one column, move the selection to another column, fill with shadow, rinse and repeat. Nothing too fancy really.