The Five Kingdoms

[Straf]

I found a tutorial on my hard drive that comes from here. I followed it to produce the following map. Yes, the image size is very small as I used the 700 x 700 pixel size as suggested in the tutorial. I just wanted to see what it could produce. I'm happy enough to post what I did in Finished Maps.

Five Kingdoms.jpg

It was quite good fun to follow. The 'links' in the pdf aren't links - I think it might have been a word document printed as a pdf. I see in the original thread that many have asked for the grunge brushes made to make the mountains. I don't know if it's the same set but I found the second brush in this set did the job. I think I set it around 10% of the actual size - 48 pixels.

I did consider putting a parchment texture with this and I may do so in the future but I'm quite please for an evening's work. Things I would definitely change next time, though, are the settlements and the names - it's very crowded, so I'd space them out a lot more. Then again I'd probably do this on a much larger canvas, possibly 6000 x 6000 pixels, so there may be a bit more space between the places.

Anyway thanks to Candacis for the tutorial

[Kellerica]

A really cool style, I'll have to check the tutorial out at some point. I think it could benefit from a parchment texture (but then again, I can't be happy with a map unless I stuff 10 of them in there, so I might be a tad biased on this point). The only thing that kinda distracts me are the rivers, they are looking a bit blurred compared to the crisp coastlines and waves.

Glad to see you've found your way into making maps again!

[- JO -]

Nice evening work ! Congratulations !
And also glad you had fun with mapping !
I concur with Kelleri on the rivers, but it’s a good map !

[Straf]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

I applied a parchment layer to it to see how it would look. Unfortunately for the rivers I think I applied a blur, forgot and then applied it again then didn't have the undo feature because I did something else. This is probably why it's important to duplicate layers.

Five Kingdoms.jpg

[Voolf]

Great little map Straf. It is small though.. i feel like i want to zoom it more but i can't

[Straf]

Thanks Voolf. The tutorial was based on a 700 x 700 image. I used that to understand what was happening. This was more of an exercise in learning a new style. I'll most likely use some of the tricks in future maps.

[ThomasR]

Nice one straf, very "old school book".

[DanielHasenbos]

Sweet map Straf! Just like those old-school text book maps (:

[Straf]

Thanks. I've been trying some other things out:

Five Kingdoms aged.jpg

[- JO -]

That’s nice too !
A bit strange, but nice...