May 2014 Entry - The Sahuagin point of view

[Francissimo]

I love the ocean currents. I just recently came across these Marshall Islands stick charts which are much less about representing precise geography, and all about representing movement. It makes perfect sense that the Sahuagin would want to know that sort of thing.

Also the underwater topography looks great, it's very detailed and much like what I would expect the very intelligent Sahuagin to produce.

cheers,
Meshon

Thanks Meshon! The fact sahuagins are very intelligent was an important factor for the theme of the map, as it allows me to make a detailed map credible for such an evolved civilisation. the idea to represent oceanic curent came to me because the map was badly empty without roads
I've add a subtle wave effect on oceans, a north trident and a scale bar. Not sure but that's probably the final version
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Working with a map where noticable elements are all supposed to be underwater was quite challenging and fun. I needed to work only with shade of blue, and the texture work to represent the water had to be subtle, i did my best to find the balance between a texture on ocean that suggest water and waves and at the same time don't reduce too much the visibility of buildings, sea weed and oceanic curent.