Lost City of Zy'Ku

[XCali]

For the compass, what I mean is that it really looks like it's a knife put vertically on the ground, so maybe you should add the other axis. After looking a bit longer at your ocean, it's not so weird so.. why not. Your buildings are very packed and it looks like it was a huge city with towers etc, is that the case?

The compass can be changed. I will see if I do.
And yeah, it is kind of a big city. Though, I wouldn't say very packed. Looking at a lot of real world cities with their extremely compacted styles, I would actually say there is a lot of space here.

I understand what Jean-Abdel means, although I didn't feel the same way: For me the sword is well placed on the ground, a matter of personal perception surely. What bothers me a little is the difference in style between the compass and the rest. Maybe try to do it in 3d more in the style of the map? A good place for it would be the bottom right corner?
btw, I love the overall painterly style! You used GMIC GIMP filters here, didn't you ?

Hi Tenia.
Now that I consider the compass, I see what you mean. I took the sword drawing straight up without messing too much with it.

Thank you! I like the style too. And yes it is me taking my pencil drawing and laying the GMIC filters on thick. I was glad it came out this way, it saves a LOAD of time if I want to make a quick decent DnD map without spending months on it. The difficult thing here is getting the pencil drawing right for it to work.
For this one it was Dream Smoothing times 2, overlay/multiply(either is fine) onto the original pencil drawing to keep that grainy feeling of the pencil with the smoothed out lines of the filters. New from visible, hide the old layers, and put this one on multiply or overlay, and put a colour layer below it.
With that in mind, I did spend some time adding highlights.
So basically you are left with two layers, that you use. Hope that gives an idea of the process.

Have a nice day!



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I couldn't use the same techniques on the sword compass without losing a lot of detail. So I played around, and ended up with this one.