August Entry: Spearmen & Dragon of the Rose

[pyrandon]

Hello, friends.

I'm not sure if this will be my actual entry to this month's challenge--and believe me, after seeing all the other entries I initially quailed at entering at all!--but I tried to go in a new direction by hand-drawing an image in which the rose was contained in the picture in some way. In this case, a couple spearmen.

The image on the left is the basic line drawing & colors (before PS effects applied), the middle is B&W on parchment, and the far right is colored on parchment.

Anyway, just "playing around here", having fun being creative. Take care!

[HellHound]

I like that one a LOT. I could see using it on some of my less "underdark-y" maps.

[ravells]

Excellent work! Voting is going to prove very hard this month!

Ravs

[Gamerprinter]

As complex and 3D looking as my rose is, I can see more use for a compass rose like this than my "monstrocity"!

Good job!

[pyrandon]

I don't know why you'd care, but I enjoyed seeing everyone else's "process" images that I thought I'd post mine too.

The first is a scan of the individual stick figures; the second is the "in the works" line tracing.

Take care!

[ravells]

Thanks Don! I find the thoughts behind maps and the works in progress as interesting as the final result.