I actually had a lot of fun working through this but I think I need to actually draw the buildings straight onto the map. I tried drawing Mideel Village in a new document and drew it just a little bigger. The thought process was that I would be able to just shrink it down and place it onto the merge file but there was some quality loss when I shrunk it down and I did not like the look of it. Especially when I compared it with the other assets on the merge file, such as the Fort Condor asset. Which I had drawn it straight onto the larger map file.
The left building sketch (Mideel Village) is usually what you would see on the world map in the game. But I thought about adding one more building. I picked the hospital that Cloud is found in during the time he’s separated from the party. It had interesting parts of it and it’s a shame that the bigger asset can’t be used as some of the details were a lot of fun to work on.
Unfortunately this asset is taking a bit of time because I’ve been trying to work through and improve my perspective drawing. For now I might move onto a different island to work on. I have been looking at YouTube vids on different perspective drawing exercises in hopes to fix up and improve the village. I might just wait on the building until I get better or more familiar. I have tried the different exercises that I remember doing in college, so that took me right back to my college days, sitting in the drawing room for a 4 hour class that started at 8am. The longest days being we had to sit there and draw the still life display. Funny enough that was actually my first introduction to traditional drawing. I had drawn in High School but only doodles in my notebooks, so it was definitely something out of my comfort zone but it was one of my favorite classes.