El Dorado - City of Gold

[snodsy]

Getting back at it after a week of vacation looking at mountains Will undoubtably influence my drawings after seeing Zion, Bryce and Capital Reef.

Here's an update adding some shadow and color to the background photoshop image. The Huts were done in Illustrator to start, added roof lines in photoshop and then brought back into illustrator. Then made the hut a SYMBOL in illustrator and copied the symbol (symbols reduce file size and redraw time in illustrator) Still need to do the structural smaller buildings and continue to work back and forth in both programs.

[Mouse]

Hey Snodsy

I hope you've come back all fresh and revived!

I was just admiring the lovely splashiness of the falls of Muisca... you know how I value artistic expressiveness... when I noticed a typo in the caption to the little gold covered God statues at the top.

...on the roof of the Sun Temple to protected the citizens...

Other than that, very tidy and well thought out composition - extremely well presented

[ThomasR]

It's developing quite nicely ! Do you plan on giving the other building some texture ?

[snodsy]

Thanks for the typo finds MOUSE, spelling not one of my strong suits. Thomrey, yeah I'll probably bring each component into photoshop as individual illustrations and add the texture, then place them back into illustrator. I probably need to work on the line weights of the mountains too, not sure yet.

Thanks for the comments. Good to be back to see what's up here, not so good that I have to go back to work

[Bogie]

Thanks for the comments. Good to be back to see what's up here, not so good that I have to go back to work

Going back to work is the hardest part about vacations. My kids were in the Valley of Fire last week, not to far from where you were.
Oh, and the map looks great!

[arsheesh]

This is really coming along nicely! Great work on the perspective. The placement of each of the elements works together well within the overall composition.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[snodsy]

Update of the top two illustrations - not sure how much further I'm going to take it, losing interest, may just set aside for awhile. Comments welcome.

[Mouse]

Well it looks fairly finished to me

I do actually like this map after all - very educational!

[mat_r]

Oh wow, this is great! Love the overall presentation with the illustrations around the plan of the site.
Not sure what I would do to take this one a step further, if I were you. Maybe add some green (trees, bushes) to breathe a little more life into the scene and to loosen the transition between the light green plains and the rocks a bit? I'm not sure if that's a good idea, but I would probably try and look if it doesn't distract too much.

/edit: just saw you had trees in your initial sketch. So if you were planning on doing those or already decided against them, forget my comment.

[ThomasR]

I hope you'll come back to it, it's really beautiful !