Windfoort (town map)

[Tom]

:O Your first digital town map?? I'm very jealous of your skills, and drooling over this map.

I really want to try to make a map like this now, any pointers or tips about your techniques?

Reminds me a lot of J. Edward's style, which I assume you got inspiration from, yet with your own style to it. I absolutely love it!! The side view of the town is awesome too.

Out of curiosity how long did this take you?

I'm going to be drooling over this for a while.

Thank you very much Josiah!!

I worked on this in the past 2 months, about 50 hours on concept+draw (the concept phase was very long, because when I try something new I'm always undecided about the style)
basically like this:

Concept --> sketch --> draw --> realizing that I'm getting nowhere close to the initial idea --> curse words --> more draw --> stuck --> more curse words --> panic attack --> more draw and fix --> work completed

This is just gorgeous Tom! The layout, line-work, colors and texture all are superb. In fact I think this may be one of my favorite of your pieces. Kudos.

EDIT: sadly I cannot rep you for this beauty.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thanks arsheesh!!

Awesome looking map! The font you used fits well, the details outside the actual town are just as nice, and the overall layout looks very cool. I wish my GM in my current game would have given me a map like this when we just arrived at a new town. Great job!

Thank you Tonnichiwa! the font I used is the one I created for my "graenlandir" map, but in all honesty, I'm not so happy about the "Windfoort" title, maybe it could be bettered, but I was tired..

I love your map! I especially like how the lines are almost but not straight, gives it a living touch, and not a computer cold geometrical touch.
Awesome also the cobblestone roads!

Thanks! yes I did the lines manually, but just because I had no time problem, for bigger city maps the use of peen tool or similar is mandatory to speed up the process
About the cobblestone, I was about to discard that idea, but my girlfriend convinced me that was a too nice texture to discard!

Wow, really nice!

Thanks!

Wonderful map!

Thank you!

Lovely! Wonderful colors, great lines, really nice side view.

Thanks! The side view was really tricky to do, and in fact (shhh keep the secret!) I forgot to add the chimneys..

Beautiful work!

Thanks!

Wow, I like this so much. To me those red buildings make a great boost for the town feel. The grass is well textured! Good work.

Thank you very much!

[J.Edward]

Looks great Tom.
I like the little area map in the top right.
That adds value in there.

[snodsy]

Sorry Tom, cann't rep you so soon again, beautiful map, love lots about it, the boardwalk around the wall, the tents had some personal charm, linework on the roofs, really nice job.

[Bogie]

Great map. This may be my favorite town map ever.

One minor grammar error. The last sentence ends with "and the greedy of men". Two better options would be "and the greediness of men" or "and the greed of men". Either one works well. I try not to be the Grammar Police, but I assume English is not your first language so I thought I would help.

[fol2dol]

Wow, wonderful map!! Nice work.

[Ilanthar]

Splendid map, Tom! Lots of details, excellent light, good colors... And all the things around the map (side view, shield,...) adds a lot.

[Tom]

Looks great Tom.
I like the little area map in the top right.
That adds value in there.

Thank you J.

Sorry Tom, cann't rep you so soon again, beautiful map, love lots about it, the boardwalk around the wall, the tents had some personal charm, linework on the roofs, really nice job.

Thanks snodsy! but I didn't draw a boardwalk round the walls.. those are the walls itself, the brown one instead are the walls walkways.

Great map. This may be my favorite town map ever.

One minor grammar error. The last sentence ends with "and the greedy of men". Two better options would be "and the greediness of men" or "and the greed of men". Either one works well. I try not to be the Grammar Police, but I assume English is not your first language so I thought I would help.

Thank you Bogie!! No problem at all, you really helped! I totally missed that, as you say I'm not Eng. native speaker, so often I made mistakes I'm gonna change it right now

Wow, wonderful map!! Nice work.

Thanks fol2dol!

Splendid map, Tom! Lots of details, excellent light, good colors... And all the things around the map (side view, shield,...) adds a lot.

Thank you Ilanthar! my point was to make a map as comprehensive as possible.

[tilt]

really like this, both the colors and the linework, and the small extras all around - consider yourself repped

[Carnifex]

This is probably one of my all time favourite town maps. Really like the style!

[Abu Lafia]

It's always wonderful too see new stuff from you Tom! Much has been said already by others i can only agree with. As alway, i'm a big admirer of your colorwork. Also the roof textures look splendid (two name just two of the many outstanding things on this map in my view). Have some rep! (Edit;: Damn i can't rep you again ... well, i'm sure there'll be a next time )