The Waste Land

[Diamond]

Another map started months ago and finished recently. This started out as a commission, which went uncompleted for a long time after the client decided he couldn't afford the agreed-upon price. Eventually I went back and added my own cultures and nations (with a lot of name-recycling, as per usual for me). I'd envisioned this as a barren land, possibly Mars or another planet where the terraforming is failing, leaving behind vast deserts and dying seas.

Credits:
Background parchment: Torstan
City Icons: national symbols from the game Total War. (Obviously not wanted by the client originally, but I wanted something fancy.)
Fonts: Optimus Princeps (title), SPQR (nation names), Kaligraf Latin (natural features, seas), and Roman Antique (city names)

Note: The original of this is huge (2 feet by 1.5 feet). I couldn't upload it at full size; this is about 25% of normal. I've included a 50% size piece below so you can see the coastlines and mountains a little better.

WasteLandPiece.png

[Bogie]

Sorry to hear your client backed out on you. The map came out great, love the colors.

You could still post a much higher resolution than this. It is only 1.1 MB. Just guessing, but I think you could get the full 2 ft x 1.5 ft at 200 dpi and come in under the 4 MB limit. 150 dpi would make it for sure. Especially if you use a jpg compression between medium and high.

[- Max -]

Sorry to hear your client backed out on you.

Same here.

The map looks great. Like Bogie said, the color scheme looks very nice and I especially like the reliefs and the colored icons.

[Ilanthar]

Great map anyway, the mountains are truly awesome! I'm glad you finished it. And as you know, I'm quite fond of your good old names .

[Eilathen]

As always with D's maps, i like it a lot. Colors, landshapes, mountains...all to my liking. If i can Rep. you, i will.

Sorry to hear that this is a commission gone wrong

[Veldehar]

I flat out love that map. I'm not in love with the icons, but everything else is excellent. Might have to contact you about what you charge for maps, LOL.

[Shadow Knight]

Rough that the client backed out, but an excellent map. Top notch work.

[arsheesh]

Sorry to here about your client. I've had one or two of those myself, but unlike you I tend to lose motivation to finish the piece afterwards. The map is lovely though! Well turns out that after months of inactivity I still can't rep you, yet.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Diamond]

Thanks for the compliments and rep, guys. I appreciate it.