Tesset Gallí

[Caenwyr]

Hi all! Now that my other map's finished, It's time I went back to the hand drawn style and make some progress there. Have no fear! This one won't be yet another version of my Twin Kingdons novel map (although I will eventually need a hand drawn map for the book), but a completely new setting. I will be experimenting with style and form, and it might just be I do several iterations before I get anywhere near the look I'm aiming for. So stay tuned if you like watching people stumble around in the dark, and maybe you might even see me discover the light switch and churn out something actually decent! No promises on that part though...

So this map is all about playing around. It's a continent / large island (I'm not picky this time) with the name *Tesset Gallí*, because even maps without a story (sad little orphans that they are) deserve a name to give them some character. To give them a fighting chance in this hard-knock mapping world. But enough with the nonsense!

Okay, time to show you some of my progress thus far.

I started out with a rough shape that I then gradually detailed:





I'm planning on adding little squiggly lines offvthe coast to get some texture going, but that's for a later stage.

As soon as the coastline was done, I sketched in mountain ranges, again starting with rough blobs and working my way inward towards more detail.





(and a full-scale version of that last one:
Teset Gari 6.jpg)

As you can see, I haven't finished the mountains just yet (I almost fell asleep doing the last ones I did), but I will come to that this weekend. For the time being, I would love it if you guys could give me some feedback on the land mass and especially the mountains that are already there! I've been experimenting quite a bit to get to this style, but I'm always open to critique. Are they of the right size? Not too close to the coast? Detailed enough? Do you like the strokes? Are they placed in believable places at all?

Thank you so much for all the support you've already given, guys. It means the world to me. Your suggestions and critique, even the slightly less flattering ones, have helped me get where I'm now, even if I still have a long way to go!