Mar / April '18 Lite Challenge: Mus Murinae

[aeshnidae]

This probably needs to be final, as the job, wife, and dogs all have needs that will keep me away from Photoshop. I'm re-posting the basic info about the map so that there's no need for anyone to scroll back through this thread.


This is the first time that what I saw in my mind's eye when I started the map matched up with the final version almost perfectly. It's also my first sci-fi map, which is totally outside of my comfort zone but it was really fun to work on. This is also the first time I didn't start a map with pencil and paper. However, everything except the galaxy (which came from NASA's public images) and the beginning on the moon (which started as a photo of a slice of Swiss cheese) was first drawn by hand using a Wacom Intuos tablet, then manipulated further in Photoshop. The font is Montalban, available from dafont.com.

Most of the text on the left side is a nod to the Guild's website, including the number of Guild members (shown as the number of settlements), website menus, and the names of site leaders. The area and population are from the Donjon demographic generator that Diamond linked to for the April 2018 challenge. I included as many Guild member names as I could without making the maps too busy; the flat world map has more names than the planet view, with some others scattered throughout the non-map areas.

### Latest WIP ###
Guildworld Mockup v10 (FINAL)(sm).jpg

[bkh1914]

The font is Montalban, available from dafont.com.

I like the font and I was going to ask what it was.

Just downloaded it and the font has been 'improved'.
It now has lower case characters instead of small caps.
Darn, I really liked those small caps.