Old Empire of Lorn - Fantasy world map

[Eilathen]

Great work so far! I think you're quickly becoming one of my favorite artists here.

Wow, high praise indeed.

I have to agree. You are doing some excellent work here, Max. Very nice mountains. Have some rep.! And thanks for sharing!

[- Max -]

Thanks a lot vorropohaiah and Eilathen So, new update: Changed colors of base textures and switch to lighter ones (guess it will make labeling easier), added compass and some subtle waves in sea and worked a bit on the coastlines.

Lorn4.jpg

[- Max -]

Some WIp work on western region (moutains and forests). here's what I've done so far:



Opacity of trees may be increased and I'll redo the three mounts in the forest in the west.

[Wingshaw]

Hi Max, this is looking pretty good. I really like the mountains, and the door in the big mountain nicely fits the style.

I hope I'm right in assuming that you are inviting comments by posting here. If you don't mind me saying, I think the forests look a bit strange. Perhaps if the density of trees changed, so some areas look thicker and others more sparse, and/or if the trees overlapped one another more often. The other comment I have - and you may already be planning to do this yourself - perhaps hide an area of the border where it overlaps the mountains, so it looks like the map is spilling out of the frame.

Otherwise, looking really good - I particularly like the woodcut effect on your coastal waves and the crosshatch near the coasts. Are they done in PS?

THW.

[amberroberts09]

Mountain and the forest are the special things for me.

[- Max -]

I hope I'm right in assuming that you are inviting comments by posting here. If you don't mind me saying, I think the forests look a bit strange. Perhaps if the density of trees changed, so some areas look thicker and others more sparse, and/or if the trees overlapped one another more often. The other comment I have - and you may already be planning to do this yourself - perhaps hide an area of the border where it overlaps the mountains, so it looks like the map is spilling out of the frame.

Otherwise, looking really good - I particularly like the woodcut effect on your coastal waves and the crosshatch near the coasts. Are they done in PS?

THW.

Comments are welcomed THW

What I had in mind for the forests was to choose a non overlapped style that would fit better with Blaeu's mountain's style (like I did on Provinces of Selen map) but maybe it doesn't work that good due to big areas, I don't know. I'm gonna try to increase opacity and/or add engraving lines style on a bottom layer to see if it's better. I'm not really sure to know how overlap good with this style of forests...
At the start I was planning to erase mountains off the border. And yes waves and crosshatch are made with PS ( first is engraving like pattern, second hand-made brush used with dynamic parameters)
Anyway thanks for the comment.

[Xanuri]

Nice Job, I like it

[urxed]

Those mountains are awesome. Just beautiful.

[- Max -]

Thanks xanuri and Urxed. Im very satisfied of how those brushes works

[- Max -]

A few advances and some stones brushes set to use next... I'm still trying to figure how overlap the trees on the forests