High Horn Keep [reanimate]

[J.Edward]

Freakin' amazing, it's unreal how great it looks. If this was colored in a pleasing fashion I would put it on my wall and I don't say that too lightly, this isn't just great city art, it's just charming in so many small ways. Really well done.

Though I don't personally think the seamless double perspective transition would be hard. I guess I'll have to prove it eventually, but I used to do panelless comic pages which had transitions into tons of different perspectives, so I imagine the concept will be similar. By hand it would suck but digitally, you have the ability to layer and clean up the transition if you don't nail it on the first go, and also, you could do the two separate maps on two different files and then bring them together and just draw the transition.

Thanks so much, Tiana
I'm hoping that the end result of the color is pleasing, but we'll see. ;P
I haven't completely decided what color direction I will go.

I can imagine doing comics would get you used to many perspectives of similar scenes.

Great progress, J. I love how the shadows make the town pop up. It looks like irradiated with magic.

Hehe, yeah. The shadow part is arguably the best, most powerful bit. nods.

This is gonna be brutal

I am already glad that I redid that old piece.
It makes me want to try some other ones.

You're so good with shadows... So you use sketchup, or it's juste a special mind ability you have ???
(same question for double perspective illustration... )

Thanks Joel
I did use sketchup and other 3d software for a number of years.
I used to do 3d stock modeling, so I got very familiar with thinking in 3d.
Sometimes I will use sketchup if I need to visualize something that I can't get with sketching.
Or if the time to model is less than the time to sketch and I have a tight deadline.
Doesn't happen often, but it can come up.