This is Esha, my first map. It's 3200*2400, because I felt ambitious when I started out. Photoshop with free-to-use brushes because I suck at drawing. I know the water looks boring, my focus was on the land.
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Esha
This is Esha, my first map. It's 3200*2400, because I felt ambitious when I started out. Photoshop with free-to-use brushes because I suck at drawing. I know the water looks boring, my focus was on the land.
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Hi and welcome to the Guild! That's a pretty awesome first map! Your land shape looks good and your mountain ranges seem realistic. You've mostly got your rivers right too, though some of your lakes should have an outlet that will eventually flow towards the sea (whilst there are some exceptions, I understand, most lakes will usually have an outlet that joins a river system somewhere).
A couple of little things that jumped out at me.
Firstly, I'd move the title. It's not best positioned over that mountain range, especially when you have lots of relatively empty land nearby. You might also consider changing the colour a little to make it pop more. I feel it doesn't contrast particularly well at the moment. That could apply to your labels too, but it feels worse when it's the main title. Your coast lines are a little smooth and I think could do with some more raggedness around the edges. Finally, I hope you will do something with the sea areas. They're so flat compared to the nice green textured land areas.
Overall, a fantastic first map and thanks for sharing with us. Have some rep. Looking forward to seeing more from you.
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Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep all of that in mind.
I dig it! The colors are nice. I'd say lightly brushing a bit of gray in the mountain areas would improve it even further.
This is a great first submission to the guild, and I look forward to seeing your future projects.
I agree with what ChickPea had to say about the labels. The shape of your landmass is interesting, and it fills almost all of the map, so kudos for not having wasted space. It is very green, however, and I think going with a dusty color for the land and reserving the green for the forests would have helped to diversify the map. I definitely think you should consider adding a border, a legend, and a compass rose to this project; that would make it look a lot more complete. If you then were to texture the ocean, you would have a very nice looking completed map.
The best maps are the ones we like the most after looking at the longest.
Seems like it's not really a finished map if I change all of that, so then it's the wrong forum, haha! I have no clue how to draw a proper border or such though, that's a bit too advanced for me (for now). I might look into that though!
This is a beautiful fist map!!! My first one wasn't half as good. I love the overall colors, crisp and clean!
You have already received some suggestions that would improve an already good map. I hope you don't feel overwhelmed if I add one or.two more?
If you were.to add a.slight lightening to the inside edge of your land masses, and a lighter, softer contour to.the outside, it would give the I.pression of beaches...the land CO.ING up out of.the ocean, instead of.running flat up against it.
Then, if you were to add a subtle lightening in some areas of your ocean...maybe a touch of. A.sea.green here and there...your ocean would seem more.alive.
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she comes with no form
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