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A Luddite's Map
The title of this thread is a joke, of course, but seriously: I like to try out a lot of different styles using the tools and materials available to me. My most recent adventure has been experimenting with a decidedly simplistic Baroque style. Here is a little sample. It is very blurry because it is a low-grade scanner -- but I'll scan in a better version at some point. There's obviously a lot of work to be done (really only outlines exist at this point, and the whole map will be a ~16x16" square -- this is only a tiny portion of that). Consider this more a "hello" kind of post... just didn't want to show up empty-handed.
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. This looks quite nice. I'd love to see a full scale map done in this style. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future. In fact, why not post some of your previous work up in the finished maps section?
