March/April 2017 Lite Challenge: Finding the Fleet

[Mouse]

An oxy-whaty?

Only kidding (I know what you mean), and no I don't think so, even though I hold that belief simply because what you say makes me feel even better about the design.

Thanks GLS

[Straf]

An oxomoron - it's someone too stupid to be able to use stock cubes.

[Mouse]

Precisely. Everyone knows that don't they?

[waldronate]

An oxomoron - it's someone too stupid to be able to use stock cubes.

What you're saying is that they need to get custom cubes made?

[Straf]

What you're saying is that they need to get custom cubes made?

Haha! Very good

[kacey]

The map looks good, I love the warm colours, but I'm not entirely convinced by the feather, I know you struggled with it so I feel bad saying this, but to me it looks very cut and paste. Did you use some type of stock image for the feather?

[Mouse]

OMG I laughed so loud when I read that! LOL!

I dreweded it all by myself - I really did! LOL! (and now you see that its genuinely true that I really am quite crap at drawing stuff unless its in oil paint and on a genuine physical canvas )

Here is the original I did as a vector drawing in Corel Draw, oh, lets see now... about 5 years ago now, when I first decided to plan and produce this series

Original.png

I like to think that I have at least improved it just a tiny bit?

Feather attempt 3.png

All drawn by hand and mouse in GIMP... apart from the bits of the original that still show through the new layers, like the bottom of the feather shaft

[kacey]

Well I guess you did a good job then because I thought it was a cut out photo with some smudge tool applied

[Mouse]

The smudgy bits are where I couldn't work out what to do with the detail

Thanks for the indirect compliment

I might have another swipe at it. We'll see

[tilt]

Its a very well drawn feather I think definitely better at drawing than me - then again, most in here are.. damn good illustrators around here Tried my hand at it in a challenge a lot of months ago, drawing a dragon skeleton across a chasm, thought it came out pretty good, but took me forever where an illustrator would just do that in minutes lol. So kudos for your feather