Les Basses-Brumes

[Gadiouka]

Hey!

This one only took me a few days, I'm slowly curbing my mapmaking frenzy And I'm starting to get used to the digital tools as well, which is motivating.

The process:

This one is the largest, heaviest map I ever made. It also involved less drawing, and more captioning and layering.

I started by drawing on paper the main shapes and border, and then photographed the whole to process it with Gimp. It was the easiest and most rewarding step, choosing the colors, etc etc.
Then I switched to Inkscape, and... well, I'd better stop ranting about vector graphics and Inkscape UX I'm slowly taming this beast and getting familiar with its commands, so it's a good thing.

I wanted this map to be simple and tried to follow the 17th-18th century style with toned down colors, discrete mountains/forests lay out, italic cursive and simple cartouche.

The story:

I made this map because I needed it in order to carry on with the novel I'm writing. It represents the Basse-Brumes (Lower-Mist?) one of the nine provinces of the Novestat, a kind of federal state. West of it lies the Stasis, sometimes called "the dead province" or "the sleeping one" by the people living next to it. It's a place in which everything is petrified, neither alive or dead. Everything that once lived in this place is now like stone, and everything that enters it suffers the same fate. The reason of this strange curse is unclear, and with time, people just accepted it. Besides, the neighbouring lands are no lords property, everyone may settle there and make a living without being burdened with taxes. The border area is quite populated, until one day the curse starts to spread. And then my story begins

VERSION FINALE TAILLE petite MOYENNE.png


snap1.jpg


snpa2.png


Thanks for your attention!