Hi folks (again),

Sorry for the back to back post but I've had little time to post at the Guild lately, don't have much these days but I've managed to take some to post it.

A month ago, I was commissioned to draw this A3 map for a private RPG party. The theme was Russian/Balkanian 16th-17th century and the Tabula Russiae map was given to me for the general mood, minus the illustrations and city map.

I was instantly seduced by the swirling sketch of the client and I tried to magnify it in the map. It was also an opportunity to play with the compass with one inspired by an old Turkish map of Venice for which I changed the colors to match the cultural background (if I can say so). It was also an opportunity to match it with the border and to replace my usual rhumbs with a graticule (that kind of matches the one from the reference map).

The client had an unusual way of describing biomes that I found very clever : he embedded his sketch in a google earth capture and added satellite images to give exemples of each biome. Efficient, quick and elegant.

Working on the map was really pleasant and I'm pretty proud of the end result.

Here it is !

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I hope you like it and I'd love to hear your comments and, as I really like it, your critics

Cheers !

Thomas