Beautiful work xpian, love how you did your forests.
A couple comments on the type - I think the Sea Labels are a little large compared to the rest of the labels. I think the compass is a little large or black maybe tone it down a tad?
Also one of the rules in typography is not to letterspace upper and lower case letter too much. I don't think you have here, but you are at, what I would consider, the maximum that you would want to letterspace. All caps and small caps can be letterspaced as much as you like. Beautiful job.
@snodsy -
Thanks for the feedback!
I'll keep adjusting the size of the labels until they look right. Luckily, I use Styles in Photoshop to control them, so they're easy to change all at once.
I also think the compass might be a little large...I've been wondering exactly how I want to handle it.
Interesting note about the letterspacing...I'll look into that. Thanks for the advice.
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Update.
Finished putting shading and highlights on all the mountains.
Finished putting text labels on sites, and adjusted some text sizes and positions.
Working on filling in more forests and ground texture, but now switching primary focus to smaller map.
Starting to fill in coloring on smaller map...will add shrubberies and better ground coloring, as well as more ink details to buildings and such.
Will add key and labels to small map, and scale to both maps.
Whipped up an animated GIF to show the maps stacked on top of each other and one fading into the other.
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Man, the .gif is the icing on the cake of two awesome maps!I absolutely admire your line(dot-)work and could drool over it for hours. Keep up the great work!
@Abu Lafia - thanks!
I forgot to mention that you can now see that the volcano in the smaller map lines up with the volcanic caldera lake in the larger map.
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Update.
Getting more detail and shading on the smaller map.
Getting a Key, with locations of interest, on the smaller map, as well as creating a scale for both maps.
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This is absolutely fabulous work xpian. I'm sorry I couldn't complete your challenge.
@chashio - It happens, I know. Life is demanding. I do hope you got some good skill practice out of it! Better luck next challenge.
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Final Update.
Added all the stuffs.
Specifically, some forest on the bigger island.
Also tons of shading on the smaller island. Shadows galore. And lots more details.
Created another animated transition GIF.
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Really nice finish, love the elements you added especially Skull Keeps Ruins, nice job, love the animated gif and the compass moving.
