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    Wip Kitina - city in Dalmatia

    Wanted to do a city map, so I took a city from my Cartographer's Guild World Country - #12 Dalmatia.

    Kitina is in the Northeastern mountainous part of the country, bordering Max's Land. It is home to the regions ancient people who many years ago were beaten back to this area, which they held strong and have continued to reign over. The mountains in this area produce a valuable BLUE STONE - Lapis Lazuli, which is mined and processed in this region. This region provides a large amount of the countries economic success. Due to this the Kitina's elders hold high ranking offices in the Countries Government.

    Kitina is an old walled city sitting up top a plateau but lower than the mountains to the West (top on drawing), it has seen many battles over the years, due to the BLUE STONE, both internal battles and with other countries. A large river flows through a corner of this region and is fed by the nearby mountains, which both support the city and it's agriculture.

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    I needed someone to inspire me to make some town maps of my country, I think this has done it. Awesome start!!

    I want to find a super quick way to make decent maps so I can just pump them out, however among other maps I'm doing that have priority I don't have time to make a super detailed map, and I haven't found a way to make a quick but decent town.

    I believe the houses are okay, I wouldn't have thought of that when looking at it, maybe have different districts with bigger houses?

    Also, can't you post this in the 10th Birthday forum thin?

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    [QUOTE=Josiah VE;301496]I needed someone to inspire me to make some town maps of my country, I think this has done it. Awesome start!!

    I want to find a super quick way to make decent maps so I can just pump them out, however among other maps I'm doing that have priority I don't have time to make a super detailed map, and I haven't found a way to make a quick but decent town.

    Josiah
    Two ways that I have seen, as tutorials, here on the guild and I've used them both.

    The method I used here uses the LINE TOOL, it's nice in that you can draw any angle of house easily - the line weight can vary to create different size houses and I just overlap the lines to create shapes. The LINE you draw turns into four adjustable corners. This method uses the PATH TOOL, so then I just fill the path with black and color and stroke layer overlays.

    The other way is to use a brush with size and spacing jitter on the brush and draw lots of blocks quickly - again there are tutorials on these methods on the guild.

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    Added more towns, cliffs, color, etc. Comments welcome. Redrew tree line work to scale better with buildings.

    Kutina2.jpg

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    It's looking fantastic, Snodsy! I love the sense of elevation you've given it.
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    Great start Snodsy! Very "vauban" for my french eye .

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    Nice, though for a second I thought it said "City of dirty bitches"!

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    Looks very good and nice progress. The shadows from especially the large walls need to be grounded a bit more to avoid the floating look. You'll get that by darkening it more directly under the walls
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    Wip Kutina a city in Dalmatia - Cartographers Guild World #12

    Update on Kutina - lots of work since last post. Spent about 12 hours on it this weekend. Pretty happy with it, getting this top down style down somewhat (about the 4th map I've done in this style).
    Comments welcome.Kutina4.jpg

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    Wip Petromka - Dalmatia

    Second City in Dalmatia (cartographers guild anniversary country #12) - Petromka - this city is on the western coast and is the main trading/shipping port for Dalmatia. Trying to keep the look and feel of Kutina so these serve as a series of cities. All top down drawings. Comments welcome.

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