My first Try: Tamriel in Forgotten Realms-Style

[Styescape]

Hi all,

this is my first day at the guild and I was looking through many of your great tutorials, ideas and tools! So I just used my holiday from work to try a little mapping project by myself:

I used the map of Tamriel (from "The Elder Scrolls") to start with an already given geography. To challenge myself a bit, I want try to map Tamriel in the great D&D ForgottenRealms Mapstyle.

Here is, what I could manage so far:

Tamriel_STYE.jpg

I'm pretty happy with things working till this point and using some of your brushes, some Photoshop filtering/blending and some handpainting, it took not as long as I had imagined. But now the harder parts will follow I think. Does anyone have a good idea for filling that mountains in an appropriate style? The only chance of something possibly fitting I could think of, is drawing by hand. But maybe someone has a brush/pattern idea for that?

I'm looking forward to some ideas, comments and critiques and I will keep you up to date with further progress of the map.

Your
Styescape

[Domino44]

First off welcome to the Guild! It's awesome that you jumped right in with a map! I always prefer hand drawn for this map it definitely seems like a top down perspective so make sure you keep it in that perspective. I also noticed that you don't have any rivers and they would help fill in some spaces and make it more interesting. Best of luck on this!

[Styescape]

Thank you, for your comments on my first try!

Yes rivers are missing so far, because I first have to find a Tamriel map were rivers are drawn to locate them. It is not going to be a very exact map, but I wanted to place the locations at least roughly in the right place. But I will fight with that now.

BTW, I was stalking your maps at your homepage and I really like your stuff, especially your Black&White style! And of course I like you quoted Firefly