Guild City District 11

[J.Edward]

You made a splendid map even better JO

[- JO -]

That is pretty magnificent. I think that's gotta go in my 2017 Atlas nominations folder...

Wow ! Thanks Diamond ! Your compliment made me happy !

[- JO -]

Awesome Jo, this turned out really well, and I like that you added the tower on the side, nice job.

Great looking map Jo!

Beautiful work JO!

Awesome map Joel and a great use of space to focus on the tower

Thanks a lot ! I did spend a lot of time trying to find the best way to put all the elements together... I'm not sure I found the best solution, but it seemed all right like this, so as not to draw too much attention to one element more than another, while remaining readable.

[- JO -]

This is an incredible map JO! Well done!
The amount of detail you put in this map is fantastic.
The tower illustration is oustanding!
I wasn't following the WIP as much as I would have liked to, why is there a flag with Redrobes' avatar on it??

Thanks Josiah !
The signal tower works like a complicated semaphore : At the top, there is a flag, which indicates to whom the message is addressed (in this case, Red Robe). Below are a series of panels that can either indicate a letter of the alphabet, or a word or concept (in this case, the letters of the alphabet indicate "guild cit" - lack of room to show the "y"), then underneath, the larger panels stands for a verb or an action (here, it's "being large" and "being beautifus"). The position of the signs indicates whether it is in the past, present or future (here, it is in the future.) The lighthouse can illuminate the Panels from the top at night, or to draw attention to the presence of a message ... or else to serve as a landmark in the city. So here we have the sentence: "Redrobe, Guild city is going to be beautiful and great "

[- JO -]

Wow, awesome job! I have no critiques at all, this is just absolutely stunning!

Thanks a lot Matthew !

[- JO -]

Beautiful job, love the layout and illustration, nice touch. The flags seem a little "bright" to me though and distract from the more beautiful map/illustration. Maybe also scale them down some?

Great job.

Thank you for your comments!
You are absolutely right: it also appeared to me when I posted the map and I saw it in small: the panels are too flashy and far too present. I'll remove some saturation. I also saw afterwards that I had forgotten some shadows ... I hope to be able to correct these elements this weekend.

[- JO -]

You made a splendid map even better JO

Thanks so much J.
I hope you're not offended by your statue in the middle of the plaza...

[ChickPea]

Fantastic work on this, Jo. I love the illustration. It compliments the map beautifully.

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I'm not sure it's a good thing to do that post a second finished map in this thread, but I think I rushed a little to post the first finished map. I should have posted it in the guild city thread, with a WIP marker ... but I still wanted to correct and complete this map, following some of your advice ..

So this should be the last version of this map : I dialed down the colors of the pannels, I completed the shadows of the building sitting left of the tower, I added a large window on this building and added chains on the main tower.

District 11 JO Tower plan final.jpg

Thanks to the administrators for telling me if I need to delete the first finished map or if I can leave this thread like that ...

[- JO -]

Fantastic work on this, Jo. I love the illustration. It compliments the map beautifully.

Thanks a lot chickpea !