November/December 2013 Lite Challenge: Give Me Liberty

[arsheesh]

This is looking nice. However, is there a reason why the border is lacking in the parchment texture of the rest of the map? Seems a little incongruous to my eyes. Otherwise nice job.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Azélor]

The parchment texture and the coastlines really look good.

[fabio p]

@ Psylence, Arsheesh and Azelor: Thank you. And border problem fixed.

So, I "whitened" a little (very little) the light side of the mountains, added some other river, a bit of forest, filled the box and added a compass.

For a few days I will not be able to work on the map, but as usual I will gather suggestions for the next update.
I think there will be other forests, settlements placement and, alas, the labeling.

###LATEST WIP###
dammi la libertà wip 4.jpg

[Psylence]

Looking good! Just a little nitpick, but you might want to clean your lines when they reach the border. Your rivers run into the green-border area. =)

[arsheesh]

Much better.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[fabio p]

Update:
I corrected overflowing rivers, added a little labeling, and a bit of content (nothing new: a little more than what was already present before).
Now I would like to add some eye candies, while I'm unsure whether to add other more substantial changes, possibly also changing the key / explanation. I would say I'm more oriented to leave things like that, because at the moment everything seems (to me) quite balanced.

Let me know if you have ideas, suggestions, critiques! Few days are left, but i'll try doing my best.

###LATEST WIP###
dammi la libertà wip 5.jpg

[WillyWombat]

I dig the style. It's so... clean.

[Lingon]

The orc huts are a little big huge Otherwise, it's looking really great. You'll have a vote from me for sure. It's pretty much finished now, right?

[fabio p]

@ WillyWombat and Lingon: Thank you!

So, considered the opinion of Lingon, I resized a little the orc tepees. Just a little, however, because each tepee represents an orc settlement of substantial proportions. Then I added a few names here and there, I added a bit of (wikimedia commons) local wildlife as eye candy; I forgot to mention, in the previous post, that "Northwestern Adrusia" became "Northeastern Adrusia". I think I finished unless there are new suggestions/critiques and time to make new changes.

### Winner ###

dammi la libertà wip 6.jpg

[- Max -]

Sorry to be late on this one but you would have want to use path tool to curve your labels instead of curved text effect that create bad distorsion on fonts. Maybe on your next map?