Dusting off my digital painting skills

Some practice sketches

Monkey Studies

Environment Pen & Marker Sketches

Doing more environment art Direction for my world's design. Each page contains quick sketches of environment shots for a different part of the world. Each Sketch takes about 10 - 20 min. 

For each page I do some research and gather references to help me generate ideas.

Cold Mountainous/Forest Region 

Icy Mountain Region

Fantasy Castles/ Ruins/Fortress

Exotic Island Region

WIP

Quick Environment Sketches

To help me in my process of creating this fictional world, I needed to do some rough visual treatments for what I imagine certain parts of the world looking like. These treatments are meant to help stimulate ideas for the era, cultures, technology, politics, religions, and important landmarks that might occupy these places.

I liked the look of inked sketches, they were fast and fun to do; however I ended up running out of ink partway through and didn't get all the places done.

World Map Progress

Using the original world map as a starting place, I cropped each continent or major area and printed them. I then took the prints and traced over the top to create a higher resolution, more detailed version of each. Then I scanned them in again.

The only problem I have is that the line weight varies when I put them all together into the world map. I'm hoping this won't be too noticeable after I paint them and landmark them.

Original Map

New Version of World Map with Hi-Res Areas