Coloured pencils may be a good choice for map colourings, too. Also, as an artist, my advice as far as cold press vs. hot press watercolour paper is that it depends on what you're going for. Cold press has more texture to the paper, which lends itself well to looser art styles, but if you want a lot of fine details, then go with hot press, which is much smoother. BTW, I love your fantasy map series and it's the reason I subbed to you. :-) The map series has really inspired me to create my own fantasy maps-- not necessarily for games (though that sounds fun, too), but just for the art/creativity aspect of it. :-) I may have some map paintings to share soon(ish)!
Thanks for the comment! Good to know a bit of the difference. And thanks for your support. Feel free to share maps with me on Twitter or Facebook. Always love to see what people are doing.
Some people will scribble one of the markers on an acrylic block then dilute with water to get a more consistent color saturation to use on large areas. Basically using the brush marker color and using it like regular watercolor with a brush. This makes these brushes flexible as you can use the ink straight out of the pen for fine details but us the same color diluted for larger less defined areas.
Hi, I've just arrived to your channel (like 2 days ago, although I had seen some videos a few months ago too) and I wanted to know if you have any video where you explain how to do cities, towns, etc (apart from the video of names for cities, which I think is not enough to choose and learn, I mean, you say the kind of symbol you use but you don't show other options). If not, it might be a good idea doing a video about that? Thank you! PS: I love your videos ✌🏼
I really like the water color, I hope you revisit this and maybe even take a class. Mixing the ink and water color is kind of ideal for this. I was also thinking you could do some kind of wax layer for your rivers and lakes to keep them nice and clear and then remove the wax and add in your blues. For sure use a regular brush when you think that would work better, a multi media brush+watercolor pen+pen and ink+plus maybe some acrylic detailing would be amazing
Personally, I'm working on a watercolour map right now, and I like to colour in the rivers in light prismacolour pencil, paint the land, erase the pencil a little with a kneaded eraser, and paint in the river in very undiluted blue. It's working well for me!
And here I was thinking and sayin: what if Nate made a colored map? And here it is. Can't believe I didn't see this when it came out. Anxious to see what you can come up with some more practice.
Hello, just wanted to drop you a comment to let you know that I'm really enjoying your channel. I've wanted to try my hand at D&D for a long time and was recently invited by a coworker to play my first game of D&D in a couple of weeks. While doing a bit of online research in preparation I found your videos and have found all the ones I've watched to be well made and very informative. They've helped get me even more excited about playing. Thanks for your efforts in making the game more accessible and understandable to newcomers. Best regards!
this comment is a bit late, but I’m doing map of an ice world. it’s pretty neat to implement your techniques, and the painting with even fewer colours. I’m using acryllic paint though. It takes a bit longer when you have to wait for map to dry once in a while. But so far it looks pretty cool.
You are still getting the stain from the initial maker on your paper ,you would get a better effect if you used watercolour paper , iv have 2 sets of these and I find them brilliant but yes just letting you know 😂😂
The fact that i can't buy specific colors is a no-no for me. Don't need a pink / violet / purple etc... and they will always sell them within a pack. Gonna stick with the oldschool brush and paint ^^
I hear ya. The lack of individual colors is a factor that wouldn't be a problem for coloring one map, but for long term use it would be very frustrating.
It's obvious that you have little to zero experience with any brush pens or markers, I could do a FAR BETTER job with ZERO water and just the marker/pen by themselves!
I prefer black and white with maps. But this was a very entertaining video. As always great job.
Coloured pencils may be a good choice for map colourings, too.
Also, as an artist, my advice as far as cold press vs. hot press watercolour paper is that it depends on what you're going for. Cold press has more texture to the paper, which lends itself well to looser art styles, but if you want a lot of fine details, then go with hot press, which is much smoother.
BTW, I love your fantasy map series and it's the reason I subbed to you. :-) The map series has really inspired me to create my own fantasy maps-- not necessarily for games (though that sounds fun, too), but just for the art/creativity aspect of it. :-) I may have some map paintings to share soon(ish)!
Thanks for the comment! Good to know a bit of the difference.
And thanks for your support. Feel free to share maps with me on Twitter or Facebook. Always love to see what people are doing.
Agree. Inktense from Derwent work well.
Some people will scribble one of the markers on an acrylic block then dilute with water to get a more consistent color saturation to use on large areas. Basically using the brush marker color and using it like regular watercolor with a brush. This makes these brushes flexible as you can use the ink straight out of the pen for fine details but us the same color diluted for larger less defined areas.
Hi, I've just arrived to your channel (like 2 days ago, although I had seen some videos a few months ago too) and I wanted to know if you have any video where you explain how to do cities, towns, etc (apart from the video of names for cities, which I think is not enough to choose and learn, I mean, you say the kind of symbol you use but you don't show other options). If not, it might be a good idea doing a video about that?
Thank you!
PS: I love your videos ✌🏼
Hmm. Great idea. I should do something like that. Adding it to the list!
WASD20 I'm waiting too
Oh no! The beauty of the watercolor is the flowing borders!
Great video though! Fantastic job for new to watercolor
Great job on the brush pens on your map! Looks fantastic. It really brings out the different areas on the map. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I really like the water color, I hope you revisit this and maybe even take a class. Mixing the ink and water color is kind of ideal for this. I was also thinking you could do some kind of wax layer for your rivers and lakes to keep them nice and clear and then remove the wax and add in your blues. For sure use a regular brush when you think that would work better, a multi media brush+watercolor pen+pen and ink+plus maybe some acrylic detailing would be amazing
Personally, I'm working on a watercolour map right now, and I like to colour in the rivers in light prismacolour pencil, paint the land, erase the pencil a little with a kneaded eraser, and paint in the river in very undiluted blue. It's working well for me!
And here I was thinking and sayin: what if Nate made a colored map? And here it is. Can't believe I didn't see this when it came out. Anxious to see what you can come up with some more practice.
Hello, just wanted to drop you a comment to let you know that I'm really enjoying your channel. I've wanted to try my hand at D&D for a long time and was recently invited by a coworker to play my first game of D&D in a couple of weeks. While doing a bit of online research in preparation I found your videos and have found all the ones I've watched to be well made and very informative. They've helped get me even more excited about playing. Thanks for your efforts in making the game more accessible and understandable to newcomers. Best regards!
Wow. Thanks a ton! I really appreciate the encouragement and kind words.
Happy gaming!
Omg I literally have that exact shirt! It’s downstairs folded on the couch lol
Oooh that is a tasty looking map! :) I really need to get back into some cartography and start making some maps.
this comment is a bit late, but I’m doing map of an ice world.
it’s pretty neat to implement your techniques, and the painting with even fewer colours.
I’m using acryllic paint though. It takes a bit longer when you have to wait for map to dry once in a while.
But so far it looks pretty cool.
Actually thanks I draw a great map and I wanted to color it!!
Thanks! This video helpped a lot. Specialy since i’m from Brazil and importes material isn’t very cheap...
I mix pen types when making my maps: Brush pens and fine liners....
I got to say “Nice!”
You are still getting the stain from the initial maker on your paper ,you would get a better effect if you used watercolour paper , iv have 2 sets of these and I find them brilliant but yes just letting you know 😂😂
The fact that i can't buy specific colors is a no-no for me. Don't need a pink / violet / purple etc... and they will always sell them within a pack. Gonna stick with the oldschool brush and paint ^^
I hear ya. The lack of individual colors is a factor that wouldn't be a problem for coloring one map, but for long term use it would be very frustrating.
Not affiliated, merely an example of refillable watercolor brush pens you could use/reuse whatever color you want: a.co/cyjNVht
Hi, love your maps, but wondering if you use miniatures with your dungeon maps or not?
I usually do.
Lot of trial and error with these pens it seems, but it still looks good. The mountains look really cool.
Yeah, most of it is a little meh, but the mountains came out looking great.
which dnd campaign should I run for my school's club, we have relatively short sessions with one session a week, any suggestions
I mean if you guys are just starting out the starter set adventure is quite good.
my group is about medium level players, we enjoy role playing, and i was looking at waterdeep dragon hiest.
Sure, but it would take a while to finish. Tales from the Yawning Portal might be a good one to pick up!
thx
I didn’t like the color....
But in all honesty, it’s hard to defeat the classic black pen on aged parchment.
I like your shirt
Nice
why are you egg?
Etrian Odyssey mapping is kooler
That's not cheating, using Photoshop and other digital art softwares is official cheating!
It's obvious that you have little to zero experience with any brush pens or markers, I could do a FAR BETTER job with ZERO water and just the marker/pen by themselves!
I just use highlight markers, the type of paper I use cannot absorb all that water