September Challenge - Gymnopus P
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I've decided to enter the September Challenge at Cartographer's Guild.
The Challenge this month is to draw a map - any map - using only the colours dictated by a minimal palette. There are 6 days to go, and the other 15 entrants have already been working on their maps for the last 3 weeks.
This is the preliminary sketch, which includes a copy of the palette I have chosen.
Wish me luck!
The Challenge this month is to draw a map - any map - using only the colours dictated by a minimal palette. There are 6 days to go, and the other 15 entrants have already been working on their maps for the last 3 weeks.
This is the preliminary sketch, which includes a copy of the palette I have chosen.
Wish me luck!
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All things considered, I might actually make the deadline with this one, even though I now only have 5 1/2 days left, and despite the highly experimental style
I hope to get the block colours sorted out in the next day, and move swiftly on to a number of layers of different coloured line drawing to soften the edges and detail everything.
New smaller size, owing to unexpected loss of broadband quota.
While I love having access to a higher-resolution version for closer inspection, it is much better to have that one linked from the post, and a more viewing-friendly size like this embedded in the actual post.
I really like how this is coming along though.
And I agree on the smaller size thing. When I get my broadband renewed I'll replace the other images with smaller ones, but right now all I'm doing is conserving as much as I can.
I'll post a link to the final image, since that will have to be a large one on Cartographer's Guild - the final entry to the Challenge. You should see some of the other maps I'm up against. They are just jaw-droppingly beautiful.
I've already picked the sure winner (and I have absolutely no grand illusions about winning a gold compass this time around):
https://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=35381&page=5&p=314885&viewfull=1#post314885
(You have to take a close look at the map to see the real artistry involved in this one by Kacey, as personally I don't really like the purple ocean, but then - this is a restricted palette challenge)
This is the sister thread to my own at the Guild, at the post equivalent to the one above, but right now there's not much more to be seen in the bigger picture because I've only been working on it for the last 3 days, whereas the others have already been drawing away for the last 3 weeks:
https://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=35579&page=3&p=315311&viewfull=1#post315311
NB: For anyone who doesn't already know, my alter-ego over on Cartographer's Guild is "Mouse" - I am Mouse.
Think I will do the cities as plain blocks of red, only suggesting a man made outline. Haven't got the scale or time to do anything more than that.
Problem with the left hand side of the river - its way too high coming down to the sea. think I know how to correct that without having to redraw too much, but that's a job for tomorrow when I'm fresh
Its probably an optical illusion at the moment due to the palette and the fact you still have work to do, but just an observation from my point of view.
I do think your work on the mountains is beautiful and well done.
Keep it up, great work as always.
Bill
You're right about the amount of work to be done, and its not helped by the way I have to waste tomorrow by going for bloods and then having to walk back from town after dumping my car to have some work done on it, but I'm hoping to have it mostly fleshed out for the Challenge, which is due to close to entries on Friday evening.
I have just so many fields and towns to put in....
They are the reason why the foreground doesn't look right yet - there's no detail in the valley floor whatsoever apart from the river, and I haven't even finished coming down the right hand side of the valley beneath the mountains.
The mountains had to come first. Being a painter, I always work the background, and then the foreground. The fields will help with the illusion of foreshortening, as this is a relatively oblique view of the land from quite a distance out and above the sea
I would offer you a ride, but its a bit of a long haul from the states.. ;P
Bill
The map will be finished, since its just about half done right now - and that's even if I miss the deadline
LLAP
Nacon4
Things are getting a bit frantic at this end. I'm beginning to panic - and it shows...
I deleted some of the hills, but when I changed my mind I realised I'd only just that second saved the file over the top of the version I was going to get them from!!!
Having to do quite a bit of redrawing...
Urgh! Why do I always have to go and panic!!!
Well, if I don't manage to get this right before close of Challenge, then at least I tried.
Going square crazy at the moment. Too many fields!!! (But I need them to reinforce the perspective, so I can't just not do them)
C&C welcome
https://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=35579&page=4&p=315403&viewfull=1#post315403
I think I must have gone into autopilot last night, as I don't really remember actually doing most of it.
That's not a good sign - its the way I used to cope with sticking to deadlines in the days when I used to write tender bids for a living, and indicates near exhaustion.
I don't know what it is about this palette, or this map. All I know is that I just have to finish it in time.
It looks like an alien landscape. Terraforming Mars?
Wonderful!!!
I hadn't seen it that way before now, but you could be right - complete with GM red and purple cereal crops! LOL
This is just a process shot. Its just for anyone curious about the way I visualize the scene just a few moments before I set about drawing it properly. Its a screen shot of a few white lines on the previously blank orange space to the left of the map, showing where I see the mountains and forest when I look at the picture in my head. Whether the finished item will look anything like this, remains to be seen. Another interesting experiment
That means a lot coming from a professional cartographer like yourself
How's it going, by the way?
All around the world?
Oh no! Now I really am panicking!!! LOL!!!
Numb fingers and toes... sick feeling... can't breathe...
I've got stage fright!
What a good job I'm not trying to do this on Skype!