That parchment map... oh lord it's beautiful!
That parchment map... oh lord it's beautiful!
Shakes head - you guys have tons of skills. For real.
Thanks CP
Thank you Damon
Thanks Domino. Very muuch appreciated.
Your work is awesome Ilanthar, and you know it as do I
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Here's a somewhat quick-ish map I did last night, as I was sort of falling a bit behind.
Just wanted to knock out a little ink map. It ended up a bit larger than planned, but is still not too overdone.
I just recently bought some colored inks and may try them out on this piece.
I'd love to be able to do more traditional work, as it leaves you with a sellable piece afterwards, which would be helpful.
This one sort of goes along with the House of Morgyle piece done a little while back.
I'm not yet sure which story world this and Morgyle are set in. It could easily be Luma and relate into the story of Briarhall and the Lady of Wold.
But it could also fit nicely into the World of Nhyn and the Guild of Quills.
And, sadly for me, it could also fit easily into the new world I am crafting.
Needless to say, I have too many worlds going on.
Anyways, for now, The Village of Frogsmord
It's done mostly in a style I used for some Luma rpg maps which no one here has seen.
I am just not sure if trying to do an rpg product with no game mechanics is really of interest to gamers.
And as such, is a viable sellable product. sigh... the life of a freelancer; the struggles of Ronin.
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Perfectly fine map for something quick-ish!
I always like the layouts of the villages you draw; they look very quaint and cozy.
Yes please! Would love to see that. And I know how you feel (I think). I'd love to have the painting chops of say a Francesca Baerald (why aim low, right ), and produce a completely non-digital piece. But I'm even afraid to touch my pen+ink work with paint for now. I can only ruin them. My attempts at watercolour so far haven't been very encouraging xD
What are those story worlds exactly? Imaginary creations for private use as a backdrop for maps, or settings you've worked on (or something else entirely)?I'm not yet sure which story world this and Morgyle are set in. It could easily be Luma and relate into the story of Briarhall and the Lady of Wold.
But it could also fit nicely into the World of Nhyn and the Guild of Quills.
And, sadly for me, it could also fit easily into the new world I am crafting.
Needless to say, I have too many worlds going on.
Dyson's Dodecahedron
an RPG blog, with a few maps
Pretty much all my maps are drawn by hand - ink on paper - and then scanned and contrast-enhanced
100% agree.
It totally is. Over on DRIVETHRU.RPG there are lots of system neutral products; I'm sure that just the ARTwork in yours, would sell them, regardless of the text component!
RPG products with no game system attached, particularly settings & adventure locales are great because Games Masters just need to provide the game stats for Non-Player Characters & monsters and possibly traps for whatever system they're using at the time and if they change system...it's a just a matter of re-doing the stats. Probably not so useful for players but GM's love them, well I do at any rate.
I have been holding back from traditional color work for a long time.
I can do it just fine digitally, but my efforts were also subpar with watercolor.
Maybe i can get going with the ink and then move into some watercolor as well.
I'm surprised that you haven't noticed the slow drip of these worlds.
Almost all of my personal maps relate back to one of these worlds.
Luma, Nhyn, Ta-Uhn, Mim, and several others.
They started with one or two worlds from gaming days, then moved on into worlds for stories to happen in.
It's actually sort of a side thing that the mapping thing got so big so quickly.
I was doing general illustration and graphic design stuff before my mapping really took off like this.
Poor little frogs Thanks Chashio
I am getting the feel that I need to get on that, as evidenced by Thomas's response.
I am hoping to give it a go this weekend I hope i am happily surprised by some unknown skill with colors.
Thanks Dyson Which is high praise from a master of the ink map.
This is wonderful to hear Damon. Thank you.
I have been away from gaming for a long time and had forgotten much and just wasn't sure if system neutral would appeal.
I have some work to complete then.
As a quick question to you Damon [and any others that use gaming maps], do people want a specific campaign world with related setting specific stuff?
Or just the general location info?
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