April 2020 Challenge: Once upon a time in the Guild

[Warlin]

Hi guiilders !

Here is the map I made for the April 2020 Western challenge.

I had already wanted to participate in a challenge of the same type long before when I started using the caterpillar style. I waited to develop my skills and a method that is beginning to be fruitfull. I hope to be able to continue on this path and adapt the method to other type of map.

The map itself: it fits in a quirky Western setting with references to existing locations: Lerami county for Larami county, Grey Hills and Little Horn for Black Hills and Big Horn. This fictional state is therefore greatly inspired by Wyoming.
You can see the three maps that inspire my work here :
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/ser...no%2Cseries_no
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/ser...no%2Cseries_no
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/ser...no%2Cseries_no

For the fictional part, the actions and the characters are freely inspire by three or four western films that I like particulary : Once upon a time in the west (C'era una volta il West), The good, the bad and the ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo), A fistfull of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari). I warmly thank all those who supported me in this adventure and I gave them through the names of my characters a place in this spaghetti production. They'll recognize each other.

Cheers,
Warlin.

[Arimel]

Really neat storyline and amazing looking caterpillars! The styles really seem to fit!

[ThomasR]

Sublime ! The map is beautiful and efficient and realistic ... You're so gifted ! And glad to see you back

[Warlin]

Really neat storyline and amazing looking caterpillars! The styles really seem to fit!

Thanks Arimel. I just wanted to make an apology of my favorites Western.

Sublime ! The map is beautiful and efficient and realistic ... You're so gifted ! And glad to see you back

Thanks Thomas. Glad to come back again.
Cheers Warlin.

[Marc Moureau]

As I said on the WIP thread, the XIXth century style is spot-on.

The map looks genuine enough to be an historical map, and the way the story is displayed gives the feeling to read the columns of a gazette.

Very good job !

[Warlin]

As I said on the WIP thread, the XIXth century style is spot-on.

The map looks genuine enough to be an historical map, and the way the story is displayed gives the feeling to read the columns of a gazette.

Very good job !

Thanks Marc. The gazette feeling was indeed my intention.

[Diamond]

I'm slowly looking through all the backlog of stuff I missed while I was gone, and hot damn this is a good one. I love me some caterpillar mountains, and this may be the most authentic look I've seen yet. Love. It.

[Warlin]

Thanks Diamond. I am well aware of your preference for this ancient style. Your work highlights our affinities for this cartographic era. It is particularly well suited to show the slope in top down while maintaining distances.