Windfoort (town map)

[Tom]

:O Your first digital town map?? I'm very jealous of your skills, and drooling over this map.

I really want to try to make a map like this now, any pointers or tips about your techniques?

Reminds me a lot of J. Edward's style, which I assume you got inspiration from, yet with your own style to it. I absolutely love it!! The side view of the town is awesome too.

Out of curiosity how long did this take you?

I'm going to be drooling over this for a while.

Thank you very much Josiah!!

I worked on this in the past 2 months, about 50 hours on concept+draw (the concept phase was very long, because when I try something new I'm always undecided about the style)
basically like this:

Concept --> sketch --> draw --> realizing that I'm getting nowhere close to the initial idea --> curse words --> more draw --> stuck --> more curse words --> panic attack --> more draw and fix --> work completed

This is just gorgeous Tom! The layout, line-work, colors and texture all are superb. In fact I think this may be one of my favorite of your pieces. Kudos.

EDIT: sadly I cannot rep you for this beauty.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thanks arsheesh!!

Awesome looking map! The font you used fits well, the details outside the actual town are just as nice, and the overall layout looks very cool. I wish my GM in my current game would have given me a map like this when we just arrived at a new town. Great job!

Thank you Tonnichiwa! the font I used is the one I created for my "graenlandir" map, but in all honesty, I'm not so happy about the "Windfoort" title, maybe it could be bettered, but I was tired..

I love your map! I especially like how the lines are almost but not straight, gives it a living touch, and not a computer cold geometrical touch.
Awesome also the cobblestone roads!

Thanks! yes I did the lines manually, but just because I had no time problem, for bigger city maps the use of peen tool or similar is mandatory to speed up the process
About the cobblestone, I was about to discard that idea, but my girlfriend convinced me that was a too nice texture to discard!

Wow, really nice!

Thanks!

Wonderful map!

Thank you!

Lovely! Wonderful colors, great lines, really nice side view.

Thanks! The side view was really tricky to do, and in fact (shhh keep the secret!) I forgot to add the chimneys..

Beautiful work!

Thanks!

Wow, I like this so much. To me those red buildings make a great boost for the town feel. The grass is well textured! Good work.

Thank you very much!