In Hraminas

[Voolf]

This looks almost like your other PS maps. Af course it's great, but too bad you did not have time to do colour it in Paintstorm. Wonder what the effect would be.
The software itself looks quite nice and it is not that expensive for a lifetime license with all updates. I have to try it out someday too.

[J.Edward]

Lovely piece John! I always enjoy your worldbuilding around even the smallest works you do, so evocative and inspiring indeed. The mountains give a strong east asian cartographic vibe to the map although they look pretty similar to your usual regional/local scale mountain style (maybe it's the dark green tone in contrast to the rest?). The type is great and i love the little variations in the wave linework...just spectacular!

Thanks Abu Nice to see you back around.
They were supposed to be of a more asian feel.
I'm trying to get used to not overdoing the detail in every area of a map. ;P
This was sort of an attempt to focus on less, like just the mountains. Or the waves.

I completely agree and I think it's because there are no hard edges to the mountains. Spectacular work and, what an awesome script !

Thanks Thomas
The script was fun to work on.

This looks almost like your other PS maps. Af course it's great, but too bad you did not have time to do colour it in Paintstorm. Wonder what the effect would be.
The software itself looks quite nice and it is not that expensive for a lifetime license with all updates. I have to try it out someday too.

The upside, for me at least, was that I was able to do all the linework quickly without dealing with that stupid PS/wacom pressure drop issue, which is what motivates me to try apps other than PS.
The problem with working in other apps isn't usually the linework phase.
Most other apps are actually better with line work than PS is.
But the texture part...

In PS, I have created a number of brushes for different things.
Some few apps can import PS brushes, but often they really don't work out the same.
Paintstorm can import them i think, but doesn't rtetain all the features.
So I will have to take more time to work through those.
Then there's the issue of the blending brush.
I'm not sure if other apps blending brushes are going to work well for me.
It will take a lot of trial and testing, and I just didn't have the time right now.
Hopefully I will.

That said, Paintstorm has no text tool, so I would be back in PS anyways, for now.

[Voolf]

That said, Paintstorm has no text tool, so I would be back in PS anyways, for now.

Oh wow, that is a big drawback. Well the text tool in Krita is not great either so i have to use Inkscape or Affinity Photo for more sophisticated text edit :/
Anyway, still worth to try it out i guess.

[Fryke]

I love how you did the water texture. That combined with the text along the bottom really makes it feel like a document someone put together by hand.