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May/June '20 Lite Challenge: Castle of the Coast
I picked the castle on the coastline and went for a top-down view basically because that's the only thing I can even remotely draw. I'm about 90% done inking in the line work (even went ahead with some detail in some places); the coast is still just a pencil sketch. I'll probably do the shading digitally unless it turns out that I do a crappy job again and then I might just shade it in with brush pens and leave it at that.
