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  • Forest Trail project - part 1

    Do I keep the non-mossy ones now I've figured out how to do the mossy ones?

    Of course, Sue.

    You should never ask the Internet and expect anything other than a resounding "Yes" to any question though ๐Ÿ˜

    LoopysueJimP
  • 175 million years ago

    Should be roughly mid-Jurassic Pangaea break-up period around 175 million years ago, Jim.

    Not so sure about the climatic zones, assuming that is meant to be high-latitude ice and narrow desert belts in the lower mid-latitudes. Evidence suggests little ice and a warmer planet overall around this time, with a much smaller temperature gradient between the equator and the poles than we currently find. Arid areas may not have been quite so belt-like as this drawing suggests, though possibly more extensive in some places than others.

    Be interesting to know what the sources for this map were, certainly, as new ideas about paleoclimates are always surfacing, so my knowledge may be out of date already!

    JimP
  • Live Mapping: Herwin Wielink Overland

    I've done a lot of mapping with this style (and indeed I currently am again), largely because I like it so much. I picked it as the basis for the 40 maps in my ongoing Errynor mapping project for the Community Atlas, after all! It'll be nice to see it get some live-streaming love and attention though!

    I find it actually has quite a good range of symbols, more so than some styles, which, in combination with the range of textured fill options and colours, is what makes it so attractive for me.

    Of course all styles could always do with more symbols - as many of us have commented here before ๐Ÿ˜

    [And I think we all also know in most cases, that's not going to happen!]

    JimPScottAEukalyptusNow
  • [WIP] Winter Village

    It's a good looking drawing.

    Maybe a bit too pristine in places on the worn paths, but that's likely by choice for this scene, I appreciate.

    I might have been tempted to add a snowflake design indented into the snow somewhere - maybe for the dot on the "i" instead of the tree there, for all they can be a bit tricky to draw.

    Also, the shadows from the bare trees seem too heavy. I know this is how the effects generate shadows, by looking not at what the symbol is, but what its physical edges are only. They really don't look right for these leafless trees though.

    That really threw me off on the night scenes especially, as at first I couldn't work out why certain bits of the scene were darker than others. The pale lower left corner still looks odd though (light source is where?), even after that, and the bird looks weird in the night scene as well.

    Gotta feel for those deer too - frozen to their respective spots by day and night, poor souls. Deer, deer... ๐Ÿ˜‰

    JimP
  • Path to the Temple of a Thousand Gates

    I think the only cloud in this style comes with a volcano attached, which isn't entirely helpful ๐Ÿ˜‰๐ŸŒ‹

    At least it's possible to draw effective cloud shapes fairly easily in it though, as you've demonstrated!

    EukalyptusNow