Forest Encounter

Jeff B · July 2022

My weekend project for this week. An encounter map while traveling through a forest. Comments are welcome. Once completed I will break the map up into 8 80' x 100' images for printing.

JimP · July 2022

Looks good and unless the characters have a boat, can be used to move them towards an encounter or ruins.

JulianDracos · July 2022

This style seems to like to having disappearing grids. It is mostly the trees, so unless PCs walk off the path then it won't be an issue.

Loopysue · July 2022

Could it be that the grid is black/white, and the trees have black/white in them? Try a grey.

jslayton · July 2022

As Sue points out, the trees have a lot of the same colors as the grid. Your eyes have trouble tracking that thin line through the similarly-colored high-frequency details of the forest. A contrast color (either light or otherwise tonally different than the trees) around the grid will make it very discernable

Copying the grid and then changing the line width and color is one way to get that effect. Another way is to apply an outer glow on the sheet with the grid.