Version 2. Already I have run out of space, quite apart from the problem with the hard edge at the top of each bevel. So it looks like this is more of a sketch than the actual map. But at least I am working out the sheets and effects.

Version 1, after a lot of messing around and false starts. I'm starting at the very bottom and working up to the top, level by level. Haven't quite decided if there will be anything desirable or dangerous in the water.

Hi guys :)

I think I have time to do just a small map of an ice cavern near Kristol Springs (hence the name of the cavern.

The basic idea is... well, it's an ice cavern... but I'm going to see if I can draw most of it with vector shapes and use no bitmap symbols at all.

There are no deities or beasties involved, and at first glance it seems like a pretty ordinary ice cavern. That's as far as I've got at the moment. I'm still at the thinking and dreaming stage.

It's a nice idea, but in reality most artists have their own style and produce their best work almost exclusively in that style. In the beginning I believe Ralf Schemmann provided most of the artwork. He still does a lot of it, but it is nearly impossible to continuously and single-handedly pump out good quality art at the rate of 12 new styles a year without ever taking a break - especially if you are simultaneously responsible for a great many other things.

What normally seems to happen these days is that Profantasy find or are recommended to consider a particular artist's work and may invite that artist to do an issue in the current annual. As you may appreciate this doesn't always happen at the convenient rate of one per month, so I and a few others help Ralf to fill in the gaps.

This is just a suggestion, but perhaps it would be better to use this thread as a way to recommend the work of artists you like, so that Profantasy might use it as a sort of 'direction finder'.

I know this is early for my usual 30 minute heads up, but this one is likely to be really useful for a lot of people.

So here is the 50 minute call instead :)