Reply With QuoteDude, this is your best one yet, in my opinion, because it looks like something that is in fact 500 years old. Well done, bro.
Mark Handall
For this map I tried to catch the style of existing medieval and renaissance maps.
Hand drawn (70 minutes), scanned, textured and labelled.
Dude, this is your best one yet, in my opinion, because it looks like something that is in fact 500 years old. Well done, bro.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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I second that opinion and rep thee, Sap.
As a constructive point, i'll mention something that I got reminded of recently while working with a similar style - At least in the case of the Blaeu maps, the shading lines tend to follow the shape of the hill contours. I tend to do mine horizontal too, so you're not aloneI think it would be easier (digitally) with an app that will let you rotate the canvas (photoshop cs4 won't work for me, argh), I have yet to try my hand at doing this on paper.
Hrm. maybe that's a good excuse for me to clear off the table and break out my pens!
Still nice work.
My finished maps
"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Thank you guys!
@CM: Indeed, Blaeu followed the shape. But I've seen other maps, where the lines were made more or less straight, either diagonal or horizontal. So I think it was not a big issue. And take your pens!
hmm.. are you practicing for a speed challenge? *lol* ... looks really good, the only thing out of "context" I would say is the compass - a handdrawn would have been better
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No training, really!Just to measure how long I need for a certain result.
The comment about the compass has some weight. Have to consider it for the next map.
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