#watercolor map

[skrrtskrrtitsjrrt]

A wedding gift for a good friend of mine. He's a really big lotr/hobbit nerd, and he really enjoys trying new things and going on adventures with his lady. It suits them really well

[caleod]

4-11-24

[ihavesomejays]

you win this time

it's essentially just a sequel to this. inked traditionally with a gpen and scanned it to color digitally

closeups/og inks below keep reading

[deep-dark-fears]

No stars. A fear submitted by Michaela to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

You can find original artwork in my store, click over here to check it out!

[noctishy]

I recently started playing Arknights ! Here's doodles of my top faves so far

bonus silly scribbles

[2minutetabletop]

1 hour in 1 minute! Watercoloring a New Battle Map

Like what you see? Download our finished battle maps from our website: → https://2minutetabletop.com/gallery (Interested in the "other videos" I mentioned? You can find those on our YouTube or Instagram!)

[mayhw]

Masking tape ripped the side 🤡

[oliviarampaige]

“Caelid”

Day 5 - Map

Have it writ upon thy meager grave..

[theood]

#1 Place you wish you remembered better * @troutpaws inktober

I open Google maps, place myself back there. I know these streets. I know these highways. I walk along the car. You're gone now. Demolished. Only the lot you once occupied stands. I can see our old car— I cried when we got rid of that. That was stupid. My house is gone. I close my eyes, try to remember the smell, the daddy long legs, the tiny bathroom. I can't remember the feel of your laminate tile floor, the even smaller kitchen, I can't remember what you smell like. I never saw you again. I regret it every day. I'll miss you more tomorrow.

[evydraws]

One giant tabletop map in ink & watercolors on A2 paper.

This was a custom piece for a DnD homebrew campaign setting, and so much fun to make - especially all the little critter drawings!

If you’re interested in something similar for your own game or book, let me know!

commissions

[natalieriess]

A life-size “story mountain” map I made for a class Sara and I are teaching this weekend!

I have to finish prepping haha, more photos of this thing later!

[quakeandquiver]

I remembered I like drawing maps

[mira-kuznetsova]

“Have you ever been shipwrecked right on the back of a mastadont sleeping since the schism? And I even sketched a map of her back while those four *ugh adventurers were going to the temple there.

So you can imagine my surprise when the mountain that I had just drawn suddenly rose out of the sea and snorted!!

Anyway. So what will you buy the animal for?”

-Hymie, Traveling Cartographer

[chorne-the-firstborn]

Physical mediums are expensive and they scare me but WATERCOLOR EMBROIDERY!!! AGGHH!! I know that running my fingers all over it isn't good for the paint or the thread but it's really really tempting.

( this one is a map of our D&D homebrew setting I'm making for my partner's birthday. >:) )

[shelandsorcery]

IKEA wooden drawers box revamp: watercolour map style!

After my arm surgery, when I was wearing a cast and doing everything in my life one-handed, I needed a project to help the time pass, and I decided to take this filthy worn out old wooden Ikea drawers box and give it a watercolour map glow-up. Sadly i do not have a fully accurate before photo, but it was covered in dust and glue residue from being taped closed for many moves over the years, and had a few spots where it was splintering on the corners and edges.

First step was to sand the shit out of it. We didn't have much sandpaper on hand when this whim first took me, so I used scraps of griptape my partner had leftover from setting up his last skateboard; it was extremely effective!

After it was sanded with the grip tape, and a followup series of much finer grit blocks I picked up at home hardware the next day, I gave it a wipe to remove dust, and then went in with watercolours on the unfinished wood.

The first washes were all very wet, and once they had dried they'd raised the grain significantly, so there was another round of fine grit sanding afterwards. Once that was done I gave everything a workable fixative spray to lock in the paint, and then a diluted transparent watercolour ground coating so I could confidently layer more paint on top. This second layer of paint was much darker, much more detailed and had less blurry wet edges, as you can see here:

Then we did another round of fixative + watercolour ground, and then I got to go in with the final touches - adding highlights to the edges of bodies of water, etc.

Then I got out the metallic copper paint and the tape and added decorative border lines to the drawers themselves, and also painted the top edges of the drawers metallic to really lean into the luxe aspect.

No photos of the insides, sadly, but I tinted each drawer a blue or green inside to keep things interesting and on theme.

Then another coat with the fixative all over, and then as many coats of varnish as my krylon can held, and now it's my favourite piece of storage!

While I used archival art supplies, I can't make any promises to myself about how long they will stay vibrant -- the wood is old, well used, and ikea made me no promises about its archival features when I bought it on sale in like 2001. So this might all be a fleeting glory, soon to fade and chip and wear out, but until then I am very very proud of it!

And I did it all with my non-dominant hand! It was so frustrating! But the results were well worth the fight.

[scorndotexe]

time to break out the watercolors to make maps for dnd