EttinCon Mega-Map (Part 6)

More colouring today.

I've tried to get more images, and even a couple more videos of the work procss, but my iPad hasn't been charging well, and there have been some glitches, so hopefully these images will suffice.

My aim in colouring is to get cooler colours mixed with blues and more whites toward the south pole of the map, and warmer colours with more yellows toward the equatorial regions. There's lots of splotches and blending and varying techniques to give a range of terrain impressions. Darker areas indicating forests and jungles, lighter areas indicating grasslands and plains.

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One of the last steps is giving some more definition to the mountain ranges which have started to get a bit lost among the other colours that have now been added. 


Almost done.




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