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Looks really good! The colored pencil texture is really good for this map!
Beyond the Sidewalks
A rural homestead in the autumn.
This was my entry for the September 2019 Challenge: Autumn themed Map.
The WIP thread is here.
Drawn free-hand on light card stock, inked and colored with colored pencils.
Drawing is not in my skill set. I have the knowledge but the skill has eluded me...
But one afternoon I started laying out a map for the challenge and I was really surprised by what my pencil had produced.
So I redrew it on better piece of paper and inked it.
I had been planning to color it digitally, but I was on a roll...
I got out the set of colored pencils from my childhood (circa 1960) and... got this result.
This is the best traditional drawing that I have produced as an adult.
(There was a watercolor that I did in 6th grade... It got a blue ribbon at the county fair.
But I didn't keep it when we cleaned out my parents' house in '95.)
Last edited by bkh1914; 12-24-2019 at 08:21 PM. Reason: WIP link was in wrong spot.
Looks really good! The colored pencil texture is really good for this map!
Hehe, this is just so cute and cool, Brian !!
Thanks Arimel.Originally Posted by Arimel
I hadn't used colored pencils since... before the dawn of time?
It took a bit of time to get familiar with them again.
But once I did, I was pretty happy with the results.
Thanks Beee!Hehe, this is just so cute and cool, Brian !!
Actually, I was sort of going for the cute feel.
I knew that if I got fussy I'd probably loose it... and the map.
I'm surprised you got my name right. My one-shot signatures aren't always good.
(You should see the one when I registered at the doctor's office for a physical last week. I couldn't read it and I had just written it!)
Oh, it's not that bad... I not even folded my eyes to read it. But I read somewhere European people are more accustomed to hand-writing and cursive ? And I do have terrible hand writings among my family and friends I'm the only one to decrypt ^_^
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