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The Forgotten Ruins Battle Map [25x50]

🕑 Added 2025-06-01 02:27:25 +0000 UTC

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Domille's Wondrous Works

It honestly makes me so happy to see that someone read my blog! haha. Thank you! It's funny you mention that you thought it was watercolor, because I started this Patreon with watercolor and paper maps! I used to draw them on stream on Twitch. These days I do everything in Photoshop. As for your question: most times I try to find a good reference source for the palette, but I never really stay true to it, as I tend to start with basic colors and eye ball the rest of it as I go. I also try to apply the basic concepts of light dispersion - i.e. transition color from light to midtones to dark, and reflected light, although I don't always apply all of it. I used to pretty much universally do highlights = warm, shadows = cool, i.e. yellows, oranges, and reds for highlights / transitions to midtones, and blue, green, purple for shadows and transitions from mid-tones... but I moved away from that and now my shadows can be within any range from warm to cool, and same applies for highlights... and sometimes I do both warm and cold shadows AND highlights all in one map... Does that make any sense at all? Your second question: I use Photoshop for my entire process. Although I've been very tempted to pick up traditional media again (not for maps though). I've been itching to learn oils. I have experience with watercolors, acrylics, ink, and charcoal, but oils always felt too intimidating. I checked my blog, and even though I did enable comments, it looks like they are still somehow disabled :(. I need to look into it. Thanks again for reading and commenting!

James Long

Hey, thanks so much for sharing your blog post on this! I would have guessed that this was hand watercolored, or watercolored with tempera paints or with pastels for the flowers and highlights. It's really quite interesting that you can do all of that on the computer. I have two licenses for Clip Studio, and I've been collecting brushes and etc. for it. but I haven't started playing with it yet. ...To actually draw, I mean, I've used it to create base layers for maps before. :) One thing I'm curious about, do you use a specific range or pallet or something to separate out your highlights, mid-tones and shadows, or do you just eyeball it? I'm curious because I've seen filters that will specifically target one of the three, or all three separately. What are you using for your post-processing? I've used GIMP for decades, but I'm seeing a lot of chatter about some of the newer products out there. Also, I knew about the cat, but you're married?? I missed that update! I guess I layed-low for a little too long, eh? I'm just joking around, certainly your husband is a very lucky man, indeed! Oh yeah, is there a way to add replies to the blog posts? I didn't see one, or I would have commented there.