I seem to have failed designing a ship.

40% of the map in one go. Bit too high up for an encounter map but the file size wasn't too awful. For the big one I just might be able to make do with 30 pixels per square and the 70-75% jpeg quality range in post-production. I'll have my dragon-rider air assault yet!

Drop Shadow would be the ticket, as per @Loopysue's suggestion, with the addition that because sheet effects apply wholesale to all entities in a sheet you also need multiple sheets to accomodate the sense of variations in height.

Range difficulty modifiers, people.

Sloppy execution here, but a grand total of 72 "slab" shapes as symbols (randomized and whatnot) made for some interesting paving. Colour Key:ed out the bits that didn't fit the room boundaries to clear the space for the wall. Kind of circling back to Bande Desinnée aesthetics.

Symbols as contours for the paving was also way quicker than the below 15 x 5 ft corridor section. But it, too, has qualities that I enjoy. The idea of keeping modular sections as symbols is very tempting.

Proably should have clarified it's for an encounter map....article! It's for an article. But also an encounter map. An article about an encounter map.

C: wine before, during, and after

Sunshine, moonlight, good times, vampire assault boogie.

Moat needs sorting out next, I think.

The cartoonish quality probaby works better for the VTT token (below).

Trees and giant spiders, it is!