Ephram's Fork

**sword peddler** · 04-25-2016, 04:32 PM

This is a commissioned piece; a small town with some sort of cult problem. The original one was done on strathemore parchment paper in mostly ink and marker. For this one I wanted to change up how to actual layout of the town was presented, as the order was for a town at a crossroads but the sizing was for a vertical half page. So I did the top part as a layout of the town, and the bottom has all the actual buildings and such. It was just something I wanted to give a go, and the publisher was happy.
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Here is a sort of before / after picture. On the left is the original image, with the goofed legend and whatnot. You can see where I was unhappy with the shape of some numbers, so I re did them off to the side and then used GIMP to add them back in over the crappy ones. The map on the right is a print out of the final version; I usually up the contrast and screw around with level settings to give the map more pop when it goes into the book. Blacks blacker, etc.
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Thanks for looking!