J's Inkman Experiment thread

[J.Edward]

Yeaaaaaaaah ! I call it your Erwin Raisz map.

Hehe Raisz is a worthy aspiration.
I have a map I haven't shown yet that relates to Skenara..
I think you'll like it. It's much like Algefar, but I did it before working on Algefar.

Do you do add color with Photoshop and a (wacom-style) tablet? If not, what do you use? The blending is very natural looking.

Hey nam, I use photoshop and a wacom. I do all of the color work in Photoshop.
I've worked for a while at trying to replicate some natural media techniques in digital format.

[ThomasR]

I have a map I haven't shown yet that relates to Skenara..
I think you'll like it. It's much like Algefar, but I did it before working on Algefar.

Cannot wait to see it

[ThomasR]

I'd love my 30+ hours maps to look half as good as your 35ish experiments ...

[Voolf]

Wow, drawing this in such a short time.... this confirms my previous post in my thread, dont know if you read it J.E but i will paste it here.

I know one person who appears to be not fed up by drawing buildings at all. Its a robot J.E. (all due respect). Just look at his last city commission. It is crazy ! I have an image of him doing this kind of maps within an hour before breakfast sketching something with one hand like he didn't even wanted to.

I was talking with Mouse and the city map i mentioned is Archensheen

[Mouse]

Aye - I remember you saying that

John - I said this of Ilanthar the other day, and its just as applicable to you:

You are one of the Poets of Cartography we are lucky enough to mingle with on this forum on a daily basis

[Josiah VE]

30 minutes for that colour!? Beautiful!

[Voolf]

I hadn't seen that What thread was that in?

It is here, The conversation which led to it starts from post #24. We were just wondering how you can draw such fast, beautiful buildings all the time and dont get tired of it

[J.Edward]

Cannot wait to see it

It is pretty cool. I am not sure if I will color it first before posting.

It is here, The conversation which led to it starts from post #24. We were just wondering how you can draw such fast, beautiful buildings all the time and dont get tired of it

Thanks Voolf

[J.Edward]

So, Chashio was doing this map thing and I got the idea to take that oblique view and see what the whole world would look like.
It is a small deviation from that image. What we realized was that this would be a rather small world.
That seemed like a sort of fun thing to do... little worlds.
So, this is the first in a possible series of Little Worlds.
Maybe even stories from Little Worlds.

This is Grey World, or the Lands of Chaoshi Unogwaja
Chaoshi is a character in several worlds of mine, based loosely on our mutual friend, Chashio.



This is just at a sort of advanced sketch stage right now.
Colors will prob change and land features are still being developed.

[Chashio]

So, Chashio was doing this map thing and I got the idea to take that oblique view and see what the whole world would look like.
It is a small deviation from that image. What we realized was that this would be a rather small world.
That seemed like a sort of fun thing to do... little worlds.
So, this is the first in a possible series of Little Worlds.
Maybe even stories from Little Worlds.

This is Grey World, or the Lands of Chaoshi Unogwaja
Chaoshi is a character in several worlds of mine, based loosely on our mutual friend, Chashio.

And you totally just one-upped me x30 It's fantastic!

Voolf - Going by the amount of terrain height and horizon curve I put on my little painted oblique map view, it would have made quite a small world. J made it a bit bigger, sort of.

J - You are so not getting out of those stories. But I will help with illustrations and ideas if ya'd like. ;P