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Really like the mood and style. Good job so far
Elmsriggen WiP
So I took my experiences from my previous experiments and tried them out in a complete regional map. Workname: The County of Elmsriggen
Major cartographic elements should be done now, some typographical mistakes to be edited (or not... see if you can find them
Then some aging, colouring... still a lot to be done.
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Really like the mood and style. Good job so far
Veeery nice. This is a very good approximation of that good old 16th/17th century style, if you ask me. I especially like the towns, did you do them yourself? Also, the font is perfect. Which one did you use?
The hills and rivers are hand-drawn, right? What program are using?
Also - I claim the village of Obereck in the name of the Lords Overcorner from Neugereuth.
Last edited by Lukc; 10-28-2011 at 02:30 PM.
I like the black-on-white look of it already. It will be interesting to see what it might look like with some coloration, too.
I used GIMP for the drawing... every single little pixel drawn by hand (and mouse). I started of with broad river shapes that were selected and stroked... but it didn't just come out as I wanted to. So I traced every river's brink by hand to get it right. Hills and cities are also handdrawn and shaded.
Text was placed in Inkscape with the "Roman Antique" font... but I found that, as I don't use curves or fancy angles, GIMP does the job quite well, if a little more awkward when I need to reposition names.... which I had to do in the version you see posted.
Right now I am trying to draw the cartouches, but I am not quite pleased with the results yet. I am trying to reproduce the crosshatching technique that is used for shading in engravings... and it seems I must do that by hand also.
Last edited by Freodin; 10-31-2011 at 04:24 AM.
That's pretty awesome handwork. I especially like the wavy pattern filling the rivers.
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Freodin, kudos.
Now I'm even more interested to see how this turns out!
Coming along quite nicely.
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That's just, wow! It appears every city icon, and even every tree was drawn separately.... No stamping/cloning?!Originally Posted by Freodin
And can I interpret your comment to mean no tablet either? If so... wow!
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That really is amazing.
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