Ok, so here's my first attempt on the creation of a world map. There are two land masses (at the size of countries like Belgium, Denmark etc) and the names come from a database that I've been building at my leisure over the years.
Iridia & Danais; First take
Ok, so here's my first attempt on the creation of a world map. There are two land masses (at the size of countries like Belgium, Denmark etc) and the names come from a database that I've been building at my leisure over the years.
Wow that looks pretty good already, especially for a "first attempt"! How is your overall idea, do you want to leave everything hand drawn or do you think of digitalize it?
Thank for your kind comments! I appreciate it!
I am not sure how to go about it. For now, I'm leaving it as it is (not even inked, it's only pencil) and I'm making smaller maps of individual places where I put some dungeons/encounters etc.
What may seem as an obstacle to me (for now at least) is that I've never used photoshop, oddly enough. I'll have to learn on the go, but I think I'll manage eventually.
Of course there is no force to digitize maps! Your drawings look good in my opinion (but to clear that, I draw with Photoshop, so of course I am not the expert to handdrawings) as they are.
Although as a Photoshop and QGIS user I see some advantages in using software:
- mistakes could be easily "erased"
- effects (especially colors, papertype and the like) could be done afterwards and tried in many different ways without destroying your map
- management of maps (especially a whole mapset of one world) is easier
But that just might be a feeling of someone, who wholehearted works digital. However, if you want to try some software, I recommend to have a look into the tutorials section, where many great tutorials for different software (e.g. gimp and photoshop) are stored. They gave me a lot of help starting my own mapping and improving skills.
Thank you very much for your ideas. I'll have a look at the tutorials version.
Now that you mention it, I am fairly well versed with ArcGIS and QGIS so I'll give it a try to see how it can work out.
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