Unnamed Regional Map (WIP) - Concept Test

[Wired]

Looks very promising; keep 'em coming! All those layers you talk about, are they already visible in the map? Because I'm having trouble finding evidence of the ice sheet,

Take a look at the northern edge of the map, just along the coast, the jagged sections in the ocean. I might extend them further westwards later, though.

and the beaches seem to be just the coastline atm (which are supposed to be on the coastal layer).

If you check out the actual coastline, there are little squiggly and scratchy lines along the land side of it. Problem is the image you have now is only 50% the resolution of my working image, so it#s easy to miss them...

[Caenwyr]

Take a look at the northern edge of the map, just along the coast, the jagged sections in the ocean. I might extend them further westwards later, though. If you check out the actual coastline, there are little squiggly and scratchy lines along the land side of it. Problem is the image you have now is only 50% the resolution of my working image, so it#s easy to miss them...

I need to stop making comments through the Tapatalk app. It's impossible to show the images at full resolution, so that's probably why I missed the little details you refer to... My bad!

Also, I love the idea of timing your work!

The hills are a nice addition. You put them in interesting places! 90 Minutes for some bumps that are essentially curly lines and little hatches... it's baffling. I'm sure I'm not doing it any faster, it's just... thinking about it this way is humbling. Great work!

[Wired]

I need to stop making comments through the Tapatalk app. It's impossible to show the images at full resolution, so that's probably why I missed the little details you refer to... My bad!

No problem. Looking at large images on small screens always is a bit problematic.

Also, I love the idea of timing your work!

I need to establish a solid idea with regards to how long a sort of standard task takes me because I usually have a somewhat lousy attention span. If, in the future, I can say with a good degree of certainty that Task X takes me around YZ hours that'll make it so much easier for me to schedule things.

The hills are a nice addition. You put them in interesting places! 90 Minutes for some bumps that are essentially curly lines and little hatches... it's baffling. I'm sure I'm not doing it any faster, it's just... thinking about it this way is humbling. Great work!

I'm certain they can be done faster, and there are faster cartographers here who still deliver, in my opinion, superior results *looks into Max's general direction*. One problem I encountered was that, unlike with the mountain linework, I had to constantly zoom in and out again while doing the hills. Using a tablet and a stylus, Photoshop has this weird problem that occasionally you'll get the program drawing full-size, full pressure lines even if you just tip the tablet lightly while using a hard round pressure size brush. But only when you're zoomed out!? It's weird. So I had to jump around between the different zoom ratios just for the linework. Let's say that it should be possible, with keeping these problems in mind, to do the same work steps in about 60 minutes or so.

[- Max -]

If you check out the actual coastline, there are little squiggly and scratchy lines along the land side of it. Problem is the image you have now is only 50% the resolution of my working image, so it#s easy to miss them...

You might want to think about it. Assuming you work at 300dpi, if you can't see stuff at 50% resolution, you won't it at print size neither.

[Wired]

You might want to think about it. Assuming you work at 300dpi, if you can't see stuff at 50% resolution, you won't it at print size neither.

Hmmm, that's true...