Breaking ice with a little contribution!

[Jens Haumann]

So! I have known about this site, and have been inspired by you guys, for a long time.
However this week I got around to making a go for my own map.

I have been looking at various tutorials and stuff and I have invested (wasted) most of my time by trying out different techniques, just to delete my doodles again.

However, I came to some kind of epiphany this evening and suddenly ideas just came to my mind, which was a bliss. So have a look at my map and consider it my appreciation to you and this forum.

I was quite pleased with the mountains, but I struggled with getting the hills to my liking. I ended up deleting the hill-layer and brushed up this texture you see now. (Just trying to accept it and move on) So next up is coloring. I have no idea what approach first. :p (I just added a quick gradient overlay)

World Map.jpgWorld Map col.jpg

Ps. If this is of interest: I'm running Adobe Photoshop on a Cintiq Companion

[Chick]

Hello Jens, Welcome to the Guild!

Nice map, thanks for posting it as your intro

You seem to have started your mapping with one of the more difficult methods. It's a nice job, but you might want to try some of the easier techniques, as well. There is a great tutorial in the sticky section of Tutorials, called
Quickstart Guide to Fantasy Mapping: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=4276

From there, go to
Hand Drawn Mapping for the Artistically Challenged: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=10655

Those may lead you to other ideas and approaches to try out.