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Published: 2011-12-29 17:39:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 43883; Favourites: 611; Downloads: 1933
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Another small step-by-step tutorial. This one is on how to draw canyons for your fantasy map. Didn't plan to submit this here, but it seems people like these kind of tutorials, so I thought why not
. I hope you enjoy! cheers
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Really useful! I almost want to use this type of canyon in a top-down map to make it more pronounced. To hell with correct perspective!
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I've only just stumbled upon your impressive work here, and I'm sold. Your tutorials make me seriously want to finally start creating some rough sketches for my book.
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These tutorials are some of the best I've ever seen. Pure awesome!
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love these. i've always loved intricate details on maps, and now i know how to make them.
think you could do a tutorial on 3d cities? (modern/scifi and fantasy if possible)
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thanks, glad to be of help, you want a tutorial on a complete city..? or just a map-city-icon, as I have a tutorial on that already... [link]
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like how to illustrate a view of an actual city (if you are able to, i'm sure it'd be a hassle to make). not sure if you ever do modern looking stuff, but i figure i'll ask.
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for a top-down view there are loads of tutorials on www.cartographersguild.com. if you mean a birds-eye view of a city, this mainly comes down to a lot (and I mean a whole lot) of work. Tricky part with these is perspective, it has to be very tight to make it look believable. I usually use google sketchup to plot the most important buildings in 3d, chose a nice perspective and then export the bitmap to use for reference in Photoshop. Using that, I draw/paint each house the same way as the little tutorials I did. maybe once I have some time
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well, whether you make one or not, i appreciate the thought.
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I like this way better than the way I learned canyons.
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glad to hear it, how did you learn it, if I may ask?
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I taught myself to do isometric cliffs (or a good imitation of), so I thought I'd just draw two opposite cliffs next to each other. It looks pretty bad.XD But the way you do it is definitely the better way to go.
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well, it may work as well, though maybe it's a little harder to shade and get depth when using two opposite cliffs..
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Oh man, you are my hero! I was hoping you'd post something like this...
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Thank you so very much again. Love easy easy and digestable yet awesome and useful tutorials of yours!
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Very useful! I'm not very good at drawing these type of landmarks usually, but this would definitely help.
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Very good! I'm sure it's very useful for many people.
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