Equilas (commission WIP)

[Klaus van der Kroft]

Well met!

A few days ago a good friend of mine asked me to help him with a map for his own campaign setting, Equilas. While not much of a mapping expert myself, I decided to give it a try.

He handed me his original hand-drawn map (the black and white one) and asked me to slightly distort its shape, in order to disguise a bit the star shape while still maintaining it.

Here's the original map, for reference:

Mapa Équilas.jpg

Here's the first modified version I drew yesterday. I tried to vary up the coastline without going too far away from the original:

Equilas_small.jpg

And here's the testing I've been doing today with mountains, forests and a bit of colour on a corner of the picture. Never actually used colours before on a map, and the forest style is an experiment I'm trying for the first time (based on Torstan magnificent tutorials), so I defer to your better judgement and humbly ask for opinions. The portolan lines were drawn using Gidde's rhumb line diagram for the strokes:

Barat.jpg

Here's the download link for the full-sized version (13mb): Download Link

Any and all opinions are more than welcomed. Thanks beforehand!