Shadow of What was Lost, map for the novel.

[TimPaul]

Here a map I did for a novel to be released soon. The Shadow of What Was Lost, By James Islington. Orbit books.

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Again, I did the map in color even though its going to be printed in black and white.

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Here's the rough I received from the author as my guide. Thought it would be interesting to for people to see what kind of brief I get from the client.

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the publisher wanted a two page spread for the map. The red lines shows where the gutter would be, where no text can land. So I worked with the author to figure out how to tweak the map to fill the spread. If I had drawn his world exactly like he had, there would have been a lot of blank space on both sides.

I also had to tweak the locations of things, so they didn't fall right in the gutter. Which always seems to happen with the most important locations on the map.