Eastern Eudorea WIP

[Sapiento]

Some time ago I had the idea for a Greek-analogue empire in a satellite style.

This is the eastern part of the continent of Eudorea (sizewise: Norway to Italy in N-S direction), where the Chyroneian Hegemony has risen to power over the last 50 years. First it had conquered weaker neighbors and then smashed a coalition of those and then attacked and seized the northern provinces of the Empire of Satramond.

[dangerdog15]

This is looking good. I like the southern cold, and the mountains have a really nice flow.

[lostatsea]

Looking great so far . Like the looks of the mountains alot ! Are those volcanoes or fires in the south west ?

[Sapiento]

Thanks!

Looking great so far . Like the looks of the mountains alot ! Are those volcanoes or fires in the south west ?

Yes.

First labels and borders added. This time I decided for German labels.

[Sapiento]

More details added.

[arakish]

Sweeet!

Care to share technique used for making those mountains?

rmfr

[ScotlandTom]

Looks amazing! I especially enjoy all the little icebergs breaking off from the main glacier in the south - adds a lot of character to that area of the map. My one critique is that the dropshadows on the larger red titles are offset a little too much in my opinion. Either that or they're too hard edged and thus make those titles in particular a little more confusing to read in some cases. My suggestion would be to either soften the dropshadows or don't offset them quite as much.

[Sapiento]

Sweeet!

Care to share technique used for making those mountains?

rmfr

There's a mountain tutorial by Pasis, it's basically this technique with a few alterations. The search function should display it.

Looks amazing! I especially enjoy all the little icebergs breaking off from the main glacier in the south - adds a lot of character to that area of the map. My one critique is that the dropshadows on the larger red titles are offset a little too much in my opinion. Either that or they're too hard edged and thus make those titles in particular a little more confusing to read in some cases. My suggestion would be to either soften the dropshadows or don't offset them quite as much.

Thank you. I'll play around with the dropshadows.

[Sapiento]

Dropshadow reduced on the large state labels and a scale bar added - I borrowed from the antique Persian parasanges, which is around 5,4 km.

As next step I will add important monasteries and temples.

[dangerdog15]

The dropshadows look much better. This is a beautiful map.