wait, did you draw this?

Yar, 0.3mm mechanical pencil + Prismacolor pencils

oh wow i need to get prismas too o.o

Your going to droolgasm once you're able to experience the blending Prismas have. The price isn't too nice, though, when you want to work in many many colors. :s

k 'orderd <3

In my art store, even the Prismas on sale burn a hole in my (well, accually my dad's) pocket ;~;
About $109 for 120 pack. Luckily we caught the sale price and student discount XD
Lol, wewt for going to school.

i discovered a discond shipping, 132 prismacolor pencils for 104$

Whoaa...132?
When I'm done I'll have to really, really search through that store.
But then again, I haven't been using Prismas that long, hah.

yes 132 XD~ this is so awesome~

ooooo. Nice :3 *question answered!* XD

Oh huh, didn't know Jay Naylor outsourced some of his work.

that´s an eyeopener O.o outmost splendid work

wow cool, hehe looks like on of those maps of the water parks x3

OMG, what a wondrous image that gives me: playing with friendly snuggly Lutrai at a water park, hugging tight in the water toobs and watching 'em body surf!

Woh, I remeber this =D It's that AD&D mod isn't? Rym or Ryn or something. I came across the website years years ago and fell in love with it XD

Originally yes ^_^ (my favorite setting). Apparently, it is now part of Furry Faire.

I've been following your work among the years, and you've put so much time and effort into the historical background of all of this! Bravo, mr :)

Thank you! It's a long trip, still have a lot to learn, but it's coming.

Trust me, you've very little left! :) Truly skilled!

Very nice ollie! Will you be expanding on what's what in the village

Maps <3
I love drawn maps

this is awesome :D
musta taken alot of time to do something this good O.O

do you think you'd be willing to volunteer to help draw up the maps for my game ^-^;?

Great ! =D

Gorgeous! Was this with colored pencil only or is there a marker/watercolor wash underlying it?
I've been trying to figure out how to do my own maps and this one is a nice bit of inspiration. :)

Everyone's always asking how Ollie colors!

I've watched him. It's insane. those poor prismas!

lol, well with coloring like that it's not a surprise. Now that I think about it, it must annoy the shit out of him XD

Holy crap, I would totally watch a youtube vid of him coloring, just to see him working

Wow such beautiful work.. I remember when this was part of Ryn.. in fact i made music for it but I felt it wasn't' really that good so i stored it.. But I love the background and the world itself that I wanted to play in it. great work

Fascinating architecture and city design. I also like the design of the catamarans by the docks, they have a sleek, almost futurisitc look. This certainly makes me want to jump into this world just to have a look around.

I adore multihulls (catamarans, trimarans), particularly after reading David Lewis' book "We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific". The Polynesians navigated without instruments or maps, but by their skill and sensitivity to the sea. Lutrai, having more keen senses than humans, ought to do even better!

I learned of Lewis Mumford as an undergrad for an energy & society humanities course (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford ). You'd like his ideas for planned communities where everything's close enough to walk (no need for cars or buses) and shared community places are center-most. In particular: "Mumford argues that urban planning should emphasize an organic relationship between people and their living spaces". You seem to have discovered that on your own - so awesome!

Frank Lloyd Wright also dabbled with dreams of ideal communities that are beautiful to see and very functional for the people living there & their guests.

The New York Public Library hosted an awesome exhibit "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World" http://www.nypl.org/node/29525
It looks like you took some notes

Wow, this is a very nice little outpost. It is detailed and functional it looks like, I don't know that much about architecture but this looks like a well functioning village.

*puts a stylized 'X' on the map and jots notes on the back to make it prized by pirates*
Now the Lutrai can trick, trap, seduce or whatever the pirates who come visiting and get nice new shinies to play with!

It's beautiful. :3 Now, get the Crytek Engine and bring your maps there for kicks. <3

That has to be one of the coolest map layouts I've ever seen...the parchment effects are awesome, everything looks neat and clean...seriously, that's gorgeous

This is really nice. Even on the map I can see your rounding out the boats and feel a depth to it. I'd love to check out this village

I tell ya, I haven't been around for the years, but I know that each try you submit, you get even better. Trust me, you look as if you learn well, and pretty fast. I see an even brighter and much more successful future for you. x3

Hell, I wish half my maps turned out this well using *digital* means, let alone doing it by hand.

Awesome work.

<3 tribal

This reminds me of the legend of atlantis. =^^=

I have been following your work for years and have been on a couple of MUCKs where your stuff has shown up. You've come a long way on your drawing style and all. I love maps like this and similar things. Reminds me so much of an RPG. It oddly looks like something out of my stories, too. My people build their stuff in a semi-circular pattern that looks suspiciously fractal.

I've always loved your incredible coloring style, and not just on your characters but on your maps. Do you still hold your prismas the "wrong way"? :D As far as I'm concerned there's no wrong way as long as the result is as beautiful as what you come out with.

I think we're all glad that you continue drawing because you're only getting more amazing as time goes on.

Moon dock and Sun dock?

great job!

It astounds me how you get such smooth tone from your work. I've tried repeatedly to get the same soft texture. It could be the paper, but I tried to smooth it down with white first -didn't work so well- Prisma color has very great blending capabilities though and I believe you have long since mastered it. Well done mate.

What a paradaisical looking little place! Perfect for the Lutrai.

Beautiful attention to detail. Would love to see it from another view aside from this.

I love maps (and making them). Great work.

I love the aesthetic of intersecting circles and radial lines. I find it amazing that even for a map, you don't stop at a schematic representation, but go all-out with colour and texture. It gives a sense of richness so that despite the orthogonal projection, I feel I can get a sense of what it would be like to be in that environment.

Your work always blows me away. ^_^ Thanks for sharing!

O.o You got nice ideas ,,,it looks very questish as a map like this.

Hmm, maybe I should get going on changing the outlay on the SL lutrai village to match this?

Gorgeous work.

Great work dude!

It reminds me of the Imperial City in Oblivion...

The aerial shape you present reminds me of the same way the Imperial City in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion looks.

Nice map.

i had an thought about something, i wish to draw a land/village for my own that belongs to a char of mine, and i was wondering on how you would draw a mountain o.o

and yes, this inspired me, so i love it ^^

The precision of these lines amazes me. I can't wrap my mind around this being done in traditional medium D:
That's awe-inspiring, and very professionally done C:

I live in a place just like this on SL. Thank you from all of us Lutrai!