Hannibals March

[snodsy]

Interesting subject (as usual) and a good map so far. I like the coastlines and color choices. I agree about the way/trail (I suppose?) being a little too large, I like the effect though.
My brother lives near Briançon. There's as often, a lot of claims about where exactly Hannibal crossed the alps .

Thanks for the comments guys and the typos. Ilanthar, I've found about 6 versions of the path Hannibal took, recently the Southern routes are thought to be the more probable. Some old elephant dung is now being looked at to see if they can get any evidence from that? That is the path I am showing - Possible elephant dung and all.

Here's an update, not sure of anything really? Still playing with type color/effects. I wanted a deeper blue water and I've put in a Blue gradient from the top that fades out to the background, but not sure if it's working, trying to get a Colder feel, I'm sure I'll be trying a few different things here. Comments welcome.

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[snodsy]

New Update, not overly happy with icons, some good parts, some not so good. Comments welcome
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[zhar2]

the only glaring thing I see is the coast lines, they are too sharp, they need a bit of antialiasing.

[Greg]

I agree about the zhar about the coastal lines needing some tweaking, but that should be easy to fix.

I really like the icons. The ones in the border work well, but the ones in the circle are very nice indeed. As others have said before, you've really made your own distinct and lovely style, snodsy!

The only things I see that obviously need tweaking are that in the bottom illustration, the people look slightly wrong. I think it's less to do with how you drew them though and more to do with their positions. Maybe try it without them, or tweaking each one slightly to make them in slightly different poses, ir maybe see how it looks without. Don't spend ages fussing over it though as it's only small and may just be me.

The other thing is in no. 6, you put "Calvary" instead of "Cavalry"

Otherwise, fantastic work snodsy and I look forwards to the next update!

[ChickPea]

Will you be adding any texture to the sea? I like the strong blue colour you've used, and it contrasts perfectly with the land colours, yet I feel it might look better with a little texture or shading of some sort. Your land is beautifully shaded and it makes sea look a teeny bit flat in comparison.