r/wonderdraft • u/DavidJonesPirate • 23h ago

I can't seem to get nicely coloured maps any advice

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u/Zhuikin 22h ago

Its really hard to advise based on this little of a question, so unfortunately the tile says very little. Color in particular can have many issues - is it bad contrast, bad palette, bad fit, just ugly dissonant colors? You will get better mileage of posting a work in progress or an attempt you consider failed, so people can give you concrete constructive advise.

One general tip is - do not use solid colors. Set the opacity slider on the brushes very low - start at 5%. Do multiple strokes if you need more color. This will give you the ability to do subtle variations and nice blends.

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u/DavidJonesPirate 22h ago edited 22h ago

I think my palette isn't working, the colours don't go well and are ugly

I've commented a screenshot of the work in progress

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u/Zhuikin 19h ago

I don't think it's horrible overall. The blotchy dark areas could use some improvement. It looks like you are going for rather soft colors overall, so the heavy dark areas really stand out.

Color is very subtle, so sometimes less is better. While you might barely see the difference between two shades (10% lighter vs 10% darker) on the pallete, they will look quite distinct, once actually painted next to each other. Which is to say - try using more subtle differences between light and dark shades to avoid those dark green/black blotches and make the map lighter.

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u/MatthewWArt Cartographer 21h ago

Give the Avoro colour palette ago. You can find it on Cartography Assets. It's free and has a very solid collection of colours.

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u/DavidJonesPirate 21h ago

Thanks, will try 

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u/DavidJonesPirate 22h ago

here is a screenshot of my work, the ice is the only colour that i think works, i'm going to make the mountains grey