Pleeease do more of these drawing tutorials. I'm more of a classic painter/illustrator but your style of character and world design is really interesting and beautiful.

Your point towards the end about how important it is to complete full compositions is really good advice for the beginning of a new summer, when finding self-motivation can sometimes pose a bit of a problem. Great insights as always!

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Self-motivation is the real final boss of art. Perfectionism, Anxiety, or even just gathering the energy to get started, can be really tough!!

I've struggled with these things for a while. Forests and deserts are my favorite and I've been too wary to map them for a while now

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

I'll bet you'll have a ton of fun if you just go for it!!

your channel and these demonstrations have been a great joy and inspiration for me. especially these tutorials on drawing in isometric perspective have motivated me to draw maps for my kids and to create a little board game for them. I am struggling with the terrain in isometric perspective. I learned some things by watching you, but slopes, rocky hillsides sloping away from the viewer I don't quite get. e.g. a naturally elevated structure like a citadel on a rock in a village. maybe it's of interest to highlight this in a video. anyways your approach is always encouraging to me!

Crystals are something I really struggle with. I'd really love to learn to draw them better, especially in this inked, black-and-white style. Thanks for the advice!

I found your channel just a few days ago, and i need to say that what you do and your tecnique is so inspiring! i've been some time without drawing but this encourages me to take the pencil again and make some cartoony shit again hahahahaha

I don't know what's happened to your KZread but I'm so happy for your success, name-brother.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

You've been with me near the beginning on this wild ride too! Cheers!!

I have been a gamer and moderator since i was 12 yo and am now 50. I have seen so many "unique" map icons over the years. THANK YOU for this channel! I hope it helps so many people with their maps! LOL! 🐺

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!! Cheers!!

@olwolf

2 жыл бұрын

@@mapcrow Not to be pushy, but i post my artwork on my channel if you would like to see my work. I JUST got into digital. I'm a tradtional rapidograph and watercolor artist. 🐺

I first watched either your isometric figures video or your reverse 5 step dungeon video and I’ve been hooked since. I’ve only been seeing your content since maybe a week or two ago, but I love your content and your art. Thank you for sharing with everyone!

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Well thank you for watching and for the kind words!!

Even your ugly trees is something I've always arrived for!

Amazing! Thank you! You are very pleasant to listen to, and I am very thankful for you following up on the request :)

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! It really helps to get requests like that to make sure that I'm making videos that folks are curious about!! Thank you!!

I love these videos so much.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!!

It’s hilarious how useful this information is to me, was trying to figure out a good way to draw a snow on my map and you upload this while I was eating breakfast before I got to work on it. One of my favorite channels the algorithm led me towards, please make more of the content it’s really helped me get excited to draw again. Even if mapmaking isn’t my priority it’s a fun thing to do for my campaigns.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Ain't that just something!! Thanks for watching!!

Awesome, you should make more videos like this! Both the drawing tricks and the commentary here are top notch teaching wisdom pepitas! One other thing that I noted about the "final boss" you mention is that it's always better if I go for drawing things that I really like and consider "mine", instead of making supposedly "standard" stuff just to practice.

HOPE YOUR CHANNEL CONTINUES TO EXPLODE, YOU'RE LOVELY & THIS INFO HAS BEEN INVALUABLE

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I'm glad this is useful for you!!

your channel is incredible! Thank you so much for all the lessons!

This is all pretty amazing as always man

Dude, your videos are an amazing asset to the art community. Even if people don't want to create this stuff for dnd, this type of art is great for isometric game design like Diablo or final fantasy tactics.

I stumbled across your channel recently, and I love it! Your videos are making me appreciate this art form so much more than I did before, and I can feel myself become more motivated to be engages with art and ttrpgs. Thank you for making them!

I just wanna say that I absolutely adore your voice! Keep doing what you're doing, super helpful stuff

great vid as always!! Looking forward to the next video!

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Next week we start talking about World Building! I'm looking forward to it!! Thanks for the encouragement!!

Thanks for making these videos. I find them excellent.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Cheers!!

Thanks for all the insight you give! I've never really liked making maps for my games, but since discovering you last week, i've learned a lot and really like making maps now!

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

That's wonderful to hear! Thank you for watching!!

Love your recent success. I am a new viewer myself.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Hey, found your channel a couple days ago, so far I love it. I've always loved drawing maps, but I didn't know how to make them look detailed. This is the channel I've wanted to find for a long time. :)

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! If you have anything you are itching to know about art or maps, let me know! It might be a good video topic!! Cheers!!

@Bluedinoaur

2 жыл бұрын

@@mapcrow possibly a short video on mountains? I love drawing those.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bluedinoaur Yeah! Mountains is a great idea!! There are all kinds of ways to draw them!!

What advice do you have for drawing different types of river and lakes? From smooth streams to big old rapids?

Great video as always Kyle. Have you ever thought about doing a video on voice acting for DMs? I know this is mainly an art channel, but I'd definitely like to learn more from your awesome goblin and treant impressions.

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! I'll write it down as an idea! I've been meaning to go over some reoccurring NPCs of mine, so that might be a good way to do it!!

@nelly5954

2 жыл бұрын

@@mapcrow inside joke characters are really the bread and butter of campaigns I find

The only trees I have seen look like that are pines, and they are much taller, thinner, and have a texture closer to scales with small points on the end.

Am very impress by your work! is there a course to learn the basics of isometric dungeon drawing?

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, no course I know of. But check out my playlist on map making, that should be a good start.

I find deserts in particular quite difficult to draw on maps, just simple 2d maps with very plain details. They keep looking like hills so I appreciate your work here, those little lines inside the dunes seem to be what I was missing but even so I'd love to see more of them from a perspective that is like hundreds of miles above the landscape. (I'm thinking of like the big continent maps like the one on the "Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide") Arid areas as well are difficult for me, no life seems to exist in them and there's no reason people would want to live in those places aside from maybe nomads so it's hard to think of things to fill them. But I also don't want to leave blank spaces on the map.

Nice

I love your videos so much, and I'm trying to get into crafting and art more recently. What sort of materials (pen, pencils, the essentials) are the most important to getting started?

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I link to the microns that I use in the description. Also, just regular pencils for roughs and some bristle board for inking. Try to start as cheaply as you can, then when you feel you want to expand and experiment, you can start having fun by trying stuff you're curious about!! I'll bet you'll have some real fun!!

@iris1389

2 жыл бұрын

@@mapcrow Thanks for the quick response! I'll check that link out. Definitely have a lot to learn (I had to google bristle board lol), but I'm excited.

What is the red thing on your pen? It looks like something that could help with cramps when drawing

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! Check the bottom of the description!

Could you possibly create a public discord server? also love your content- I just found you but I expected you to have many more subscribers. Extremely underrated, but I recently got into character design and art and videos helped a ton tysm!! (also you're really good at explaining stuff)

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouraging words!! I actually had to shut my public discord down recently. With the sudden influx of people, it became difficult to moderate without a plan. When I get some time to think about how to build that discord again, I'll try relaunching down the road, but it may not be very soon.

@arillshukla9220

2 жыл бұрын

​@@mapcrow Looking forward to it, and when you do please announce it cuz I'm sure it'll attract tons of talented artists and discussions I can learn from. also it's crazy you reply to practically every comment lmao

What white out pen do you use?

NO BOSSY TREES!! LOL

Why do you hold that carrot? Holding the pen straight wont be more controlled?

@mapcrow

2 жыл бұрын

It reduces hand strain. I don't notice that it affects control that much.

🥕🧡 carrot pen glorious orange and thick wonderful carrot pen

I'm pretty decent at drawing trees, but I struggle a lot with connecting them to the environment (the roots, basically) the top and trunk are fine, but when I reach the bottom, I literally stop drawing. Any tips???

haha rime with it

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