Reply With QuoteDesert done! Scale and compass rose placed, overlays finalized, going to add borders next, just need to play around with it a bit.
Almost done! Now I just need to find out what else is needed, and make sure I'm not missing anything
Nearly there! Farmlands are marked out, woohoo, and I just have to add in an oasis or 3 and set up the delta for the desert river.
Then I can start on the fun stuff - but I've already started on that. I tested some overlay ideas to smooth the palette out a bit. I'll likely change the pattern itself (use one of my scanned parchments - right now i'm using some of my satellite desert and scrub textures) but I'm likeing the direction it's going.
I'll probably desaturate the fields a bit too, the hue got intensified by the overlay.
Also I'm on a new course of meds for my back now, so if anything seems way off and I don't seem to notice, feel free to let me know
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Desert done! Scale and compass rose placed, overlays finalized, going to add borders next, just need to play around with it a bit.
Almost done! Now I just need to find out what else is needed, and make sure I'm not missing anything
Last edited by Coyotemax; 03-04-2010 at 10:53 PM.
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Well then, it feels good to look at something and say I'm ready to call it complete.
Pending further requests from the client, here goes nothing.
I'm posting a 50% sized version on here for perusal. It can be seen in it's full glory on my deviantart page in the scrapbook section.
I know a map is a map, but once I put the border on, it slapped me upside the head
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Wow, that's gorgeous.
My one note is that the lettering on the scale bar is a little tricky to read. Perhaps a little black in there would help.
I love the flourishes. Did you create the dragon and the compass from scratch? I'd love to know how you did those. Is it vector work?
Really really great, and 10 out of 10 for patience. It really shows.
Edit: You're going to hate me, but I have an issue with your farmland (/ducks). It's top down at the moment, with equal spacing top to bottom as right to left. That jars with your mountain, hill and tree styles which is beautifully isometric. To fit the farmland in you need to shrink it vertically by around 57%. That will make it iso.
Last edited by torstan; 03-05-2010 at 02:07 PM.
Nice work C-Max!
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You're right, I do hate you!Originally Posted by torstan
Seriously though, thanks for pointing it out, there was something bothering me and I couldn't place it, the farmlands were it. Won't be too hard to update, actually, I just have to add 2 more steps to the process and redo it, might take an hour including all the experimenting I'll be likely to do.
I'm still not sure on wether I want the scale marker placed where it is, I thought it would be a neat idea to use the empty spaces in th border, but I think I'll move it up a bit into the central portion, that'll give me more room to work with.
The compass was pieced together from a few separate bits, those and the critter and border are all from the same place, actually. It was a bit of a blast from the past.. I'd gone through my cd collection looking for a few things, found some vector clipart cd's i'd procured back in the day and what do you know, I actually have a use for some of the stuff on them
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
I was about to say - those bits of work looked suspiciously like days worth of work. I always do my borders and compass last and I'm never quite happy with them. These are a great example of what happens when you get them right.
Actually I streamlined the process for the fields quite a bit, suddenly they're just a layer on their own, and I did some transforms on the layer and masked everything off. And zomg thank you torstan for pointing it out - it was **just** what needed to happen.
*rep*
Anyhow, here's the final version, assuming the client doesn't hate it, or I missed something big and terrible
As before, uploading a detail crop of fullsize to show off the new fields, a 50% version for the site here, and a 100% version on deviantart (just re-uploading over the previous, people have already gone and favourited it and added it to collections, argh it wasn't finished! lol)
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Fabulous and beautiful!! I can't rep you. Apparently I rep you too much :p
That "lion rampant" is awesome. Or is it "stag rampant"?
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