Atlaea - Fantasy Map Commission

[jaceface]

Hello everyone! This is my first post and map, and seeing as to how this awesome community helped set me on the right track with it's tutorials and resources, I want to say thanks, and keep up the amazing artwork people!

Was originally contracted to do illustration artwork for a trading card game, but when my clients asked if I could do a map, decided to give it a whack, having wanted to for a really long time. Did a ton of research on this site first, and was going to use the lighting effects/relief trick for the mountains, but ended up drawing about 70% of them instead and clone-stamping the rest as they wanted more of a tolkienesque look. (photoshop cs6)

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Close ups:

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From the website:

The peaceful alliance between the gods of Planet Spire has been broken. The dark god Xeon has betrayed the other gods, and has formed a very powerful army in the city of Vawen. He has commanded his army to conquer all of continent Atlaea in a quest for global domination. To start their path of destruction, Vawen defeated the neighboring city Haenna. As an ally of Haenna, Cree is in disbelief that their close neighbor has fallen at the hands of Xeon and his army. To avenge their fallen ally, Cree has declared war on Vawen in an attempt to end the city's ruination. It is with this that the war between Vawen and Cree has begun...

Also had the luxury of painting the locations featured in the map, if you're curious as to what they look like, here's a link!