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I really like your colour palette here. I haven't found a good solution for removing the paper's grid myself, but i think your idea to map future dungeons on graph paper with a blue grid is a really good idea. Curious to see how this'll work. The shading looks quite good already. You could also add even more depth to it by highlighting the "edges" of the walls/ground and respectively shading along them inside the rooms. I tried something like this here. Not sure if it looks good in combination with the "dyson hatching" but i think it's worth a try. Keep up the good work!
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