Anonyma, the nameless land

[ThomasR]

Hi fellow cartographers,

Here's a commission I finished a while ago for TTRPG author Logan Medved. Logan wanted to label it himself so you get a pretty barren map name wise but it's always best to see the little squiggly lines I drew I worked with TreeThing for the forests, the wonderful app designed by Ramah. The map was done in PS and you get half size file.

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© Logan MEDVED - All rights reserved - 2017

As always, feel free to speak your mind.

[Diamond]

Whoah, that's pretty spectacular. I love the colors, and that's some of the best treething forests I've seen.

[ThomasR]

Whoah, that's pretty spectacular. I love the colors, and that's some of the best treething forests I've seen.

Thanks a lot D ! Coloring is always a challenge for me, I'm glad it came out ok. I guess I can do better with TreeThing it was my first try and I need to adjust some things in my use of it. And the southern jungles are a bit too regular for my taste.

Great map Thom. Nice transition to the while on the parchment to the north and the trees look cool !

Thanks Rafal I also like the ice sheet. IT draws the eye but it's not too distracting from the rest of the map.

Beautiful - and all without having to draw a single tree by hand. Perfect

Thanks a lot Mouse but you're just a tad bit wrong on this I drew the individual tree brushes then used them in the app. They'll need some more details like shading and highlights the next time I use them.

Very nice Thomas. Those forests look great! You've also managed to fill in the map very nicely, even though it doesn't have any labels (:

Thanks Daniel The map having no colors, I needed to fill the terrain. At the time I was way less proficient in the terrain shading department so I kept it simple and drew instead

[Voolf]

Great map Thom. Nice transition to the white on the parchment to the north and the trees look cool !

[Mouse]

Beautiful - and all without having to draw a single tree by hand. Perfect

[DanielHasenbos]

Very nice Thomas. Those forests look great! You've also managed to fill in the map very nicely, even though it doesn't have any labels (:

[Ilanthar]

Great map ! I like the colors, land shape and I find the terrain shading quite good, actually . As others said, the render of the forests is very well done.
One small note : I wonder if it would look better with a faintest pen stroke at the basis of your mountains.

[ThomasR]

Thanks a lot Ilanthar I try to better something specific with each map, here it was the terrain shading. This map helped me a great deal for another one I'm working on with heavy shading. I hope to show it soon.

About the mountains, you're completely right, I'll make sure I do it not on the next map I work on.

[- Max -]

Great work Thomas. I'm a bit bugged about the different linework thickness between the forests and the other parts of the map though.

[ThomasR]

Thanks Max and you're right. I struggled with TreeThing. I drew my brushes and tried to thicken their linework but the TreeThing treatment reduced it a bit. I'll have to get a better hold on the software.