Commission at work

[ThomasR]

I'm taking the map in another direction as Adam changed his mind about the see and compass. Out deep blue sea and metal rendered compass, we're going with a more hand drawn style. Still undecided on the compass final look but it's gonna be decided after a few test. The metal rendered compass won't be lost, I'll use it on another piece (learning how to do those rendering is pretty fun). Here's the new WIP with more mountains, hills and rivers plus a lil' crater lake.

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[swiss]

Coming along nicely although I'm not sure about the river color on this land color. It's kind of hard to see

[ThomasR]

Coming along nicely although I'm not sure about the river color on this land color. It's kind of hard to see

Thanks The rivers are still a WIP and the color was the one I used on the reference map the client pointed me to. He had the same issue so I made them more visible for now. Their final look will depend on the other colors.

Here's another update with forests mostly done (I still need to cover those rivers) and an experimentation I'm not sure about. I've added lonely trees like J.Edward and Voolf do to ease the transition between plain and forest but I'll need some input from you folks on this topic :

1- I'm not sure about the size of said trees (there is no size variation as smaller is not feasible and bigger might clash with the smaller mountains).
2- Perhaps they're not well enough placed.
3- Perhaps it just doesn't look good.

Here's the image.

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[swiss]

Much clearer! I like it