February 2018 Challenge: The Fall of the Kingdom of Cauldrons

[ChickPea]

Welcome back, Abu! Gorgeous work so far, and looking forward to the colouring stage.

[Abu Lafia]

Oh wow. That's a super strong contender already.

Nice to see you again, Abu!

Haha, we will see! Thanks Diamond, glad you found another randomized gem in donjon's cellars to make a challenge around it.

Yay, an Abu map!!!

Where have you been? ... have you been somewhere? I feel like I haven't seen your work in ages!

Hey Kelleri, well i was never really away... only had a long period of lurking instead of drawing and posting

I'll keep quoting Kelleri today. I'm so glad to see you back Martin ! Hope the little ones don't take too much energy outta you. The map makes me think of your "Withered lands of Markand" that I love so much I printed it to gaze at it from time to time.

The lineart(no linework with you) is so crisp ! There's almost no bleeding. I love it in black and white but I'm sure you'll make it even better with you're signature palette

Welcome back mein Freund !

Hey Thomas, thanks for the warm welcome! Hope this year will be a bit more productive mapping-wise for me. Well, i might never get to your numbers of absolutely breathtaking maps you made the last months, but i'll try my best...
Yes your right, like "Markand" it is handdrawn on A4 (worked more on A5 or A6 lately) and i forced myself to pretty much use the whole page. Glad to hear you even printed it!

Welcome back, Abu! Gorgeous work so far, and looking forward to the colouring stage.

Thanks a lot ChickPea! Your wonderful work with managing the CG's twitter, was pretty much the only way to keep at least a bit up with all the daily awesomeness shared here for the last months.


So, I wanted to try a slightly different approach with colouring this time. Normally i pretty much block in the base colours over (under) the linework and then shade and highlight with black and white on overlay or multiply layers.
Here i wanted break up the oftentimes rather harsh edges i use between the base colours for the different sorts of terrain, to blend them a bit more and making the whole landscape more interesting colourwise. Also i'll skip the usual parchment background i think.
I'm quite happy with the result so far. Let me know what you think about it!

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No time for adding more of the promised lore, gotta go to bed now.
Next, i'll add some highlights to the whole thing.
Cheers,
AL