I am going to go ahead and suggest that the bottom tree knows what's up, and that the rest could do with some online tutorials 😆

Part of the time-sink is going down the rabbit hole of looking at pretty paintings for sure, @Loopysue . Then, once you have sort of started figuring out how to set up sheets it's eons of looking at pretty paintings again. Because that's what paintings are for, after all.

Then, you remeber how layers mean you could have at least sixteen different versions of the same map accounting for season, time of day and weather and around that time - "wouldn't ink and brown wash be just amazing?".

I think the core message of the article is perhaps not so much the time you pour into the map you make but the ones you don't.

And sheet effects that can go well together, of course!

C: wine before, during, and after

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.