New Haven 2015: private map

[tainotim]

A small map I did last week, just to try some simpler coloring. Don't know how I managed it, but this was drawn on a A4, and then labeled/colored in PS. (Apart from the city icons, which are some older brushes I made the other year).

Feedback and comments are much appreciated. Especially concerning the style

Cheers,
Tainotim

The Great Haven 2015.jpg The Great Haven 2015 gray.jpg

[Domino44]

Fantastic work! Lovely map, as are all your pieces.

[tainotim]

Thanks a lot Domino. Means a lot

Cheers,
Tainotim

[Diamond]

Lovely style - spare and stark, gives the impression of cold moors and lonely plains. Love the city/mountain/tree icons.

[Chick]

This is a beautiful map! The labels are done in PS, right? I find them just a little hard to read where they overlay a forest or hills. Would it be possible to add a touch more outer glow to them, to help separate them from the background? Otherwise, this is splendid!

[tainotim]

Thanks a lot friend! Definitely see what you mean Chick. In previous maps I have felt that I had to much outer glow, perhaps I went too far trying to avoid it in this one. Something in-between should hopefully work

Cheers,
Tainotim

[arsheesh]

Love this style you are developing Tainotim. Keep up the lovely work.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[sensimelon]

Nice map


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[Ilanthar]

Excellent map Tainotim, everything is very well done (as usual with your work).

[rdanhenry]

"was built" in the text should be "were built"

As for the map itself, I like it. The geography is convincing and the composition pleasant. The names have a nice mix of types. The symbols work well together. The only thing I see that could be improved is a few issues where text isn't quite as readable as it could be because of running up against terrain features (I'm especially thinking of Blackmar, where it looks like a tree-shadow is actually over the "L", although I think that's an illusion due to the font representing low print quality putting a break just at the point where it would run into the woods there). It is more of a problem for me in the color map, rather than the monochrome version.

Oh, and the map reads "THE HIGHREALM", while the text has "the High-realms". I assume that the hyphen is only for the line break, but the final "s" is still an issue. It is possible, of course, that both forms are acceptable.