Quote Originally Posted by Kellerica View Post
Always glad to see you resurface, man, however briefly. We miss your work around here.
I believe a point about still being able to draw an island was proved! Nice little piece.
Hey Kell, many thanks! I missed being around here too...I already have more mappiness in the making...

Quote Originally Posted by Arimel View Post
Really, really amazing mountains here. This is a style that always looks amazing but I have such a problem drawing, particularly when they are headed vertically along the page. And it is confirmed that you can draw a mountainous island!
Hey Arimel, i'm glad you like the map! I'd love to give you at least some hints for this style of mountains. Always helpful is drawing with an isometric grid (as a layer when working digitally or at least in mind when drawing traditionally with pen & inks..or even directly on isometric graph paper) as it lets you think more about "rooting" your mountains in the isometric plane... hope it makes sense?... The single most important tutorial for me, maybe you stumbled upon it before, was the "How to draw a horizontal mountain range" Tutorial by Jonathan Roberts (aka Torstan here at the Guild). I interpreted his way a bit to my liking, but the basic principles are the same. Also Xpian's illustrative in-depth critique/commentary of a mountainrange is really helpful and i referred to it numerous times, as are his video tutorials....Well Maxime's mountains inspired many around here too i guess Hope it's helpful to you

Quote Originally Posted by ThomasR View Post
Glad to have you bakc Martin Fantastic piece albeit simpler than your usual (it has it's charm). If I had one comment it would be that you could dare starker contrasts for the shading/highlights, it would look even better. Also, I hope that one of the reasons keeping you away from the forums is growing well

Cheers mein Freund !

PS : that art-déco aesthetic is superb, especially the compass, clever idea
Hey Thomas, hope you 4 are doing well too! Well, in the midst of writing these replies, my lovely daughter got up from her noon sleep and i find myself back at my PC now in the evening...you know what i mean XD (...at least i can paint with her together now and count it as her AND my hobby time ) I went deliberately with the more subtle difference of shade and highlights relative to the base colour. On the next piece i'll go for starker contrasts, i promise.