Cartoonish Washington state map in semi-nordic style

Video is up! Colored Pencil Hillshade

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) holds a marvelous annual conference, and this year’s was in Tacoma, Washington just 90 minutes down the road from my house. I gave a talk on the techniques I use to draw mountain topography with colored pencils. The first few minutes give a little background of my PNW

Colored Pencil hand-drawn map of area in North Cascades

Drawing Color Hillshade: A tutorial (with time lapse videos)

Last year I shared my technique for drawing hillshade with graphite (pencil). Since then, I have explored a few different methods for drawing color hillshade. I will be sharing one of those methods in this post. This method uses those graphite drawings as the base, or the starting point. So to get started, make sure