March 2017 Challenge: A Sailor's Journal

[Ilanthar]

Great idea, Hustle ! I'm looking forward to see your next "ant" steps on this.

[Diamond]

Yes, much better on the grass; it looks pretty convincing now. I await your next steps with ant-icipation.

[Hustle]

Thank you guys for the feedback. I would really appreciate any critique as well.

As for now, I only have one or two small additions before I'd consider the post "finished". I don't like saying that, because I'm not a huge fan of the way it looks, but on the other hand, I'm far too amateur to make it look any better! Regardless, it'll be something to use as a base on which to build some skills in drawing and rendering.

I'll try to get a few more things done to polish it a bit.

[Mouse]

Hey Hustle

I think it's a great idea, and it looks pretty good. Are you going to colour the drawing?

[Hustle]

Thanks Mouse! I suppose I should at least give it a shot. I'll play around with coloring it to see how it looks.

[Mouse]

A few labels, and maybe a few routes across the water?

How about a scale of some kind?

Just a couple of ideas

There's always room for a sense of humour when naming things as well

[Hustle]

Ah, of course! Thanks again, that's good advice.

[Diamond]

Yep, labels and maybe some indication of the vessel's route would help flesh things out nicely. Maybe show the locations of the various colonies that are being traded with?

[Hustle]

Alrighty. I wasn't able to get any decent coloring done on the map, so instead, I opted for an aged look to make it our current protagonist's family heirloom, passed down from his father and grandfather. An ancient sailing map across a backyard. Heh.

Anyway, here is what I'll be calling my "Finished" Map, partially for sake of time, and partially because I think I've exhausted my shallow bucket of GIMP know-how. I'm labeling this "Latest WIP" so that the thumbnail will show up in the group.

Should I do anything special to move it to a finished map?

### Latest WIP ###March 2017 Challenge A Sailor's Journal.png

[Mouse]

Great work there, Hustle

I love the labels and the raggedy look of the map - like its been used a lot. The map has a story now.

Nicely aged

EDIT: Oh yes (sorry got carried away looking at the map) All you have to do is add the Latest WIP, which you have already done.

Generally we create a finished map thread once the Challenge is done with and the compass awarded. You can link back to this challenge thread as the WIP for your finished map.