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    Map Mont Verte, a town map.

    Hey everyone,

    Just dropping another map I finished a while ago. this is actually the first map I made when I got a digital tablet, but I just forgot to post it. Just like the last one I posted, there are things I like and things I'll experiment differently on my next map. I know the buildings look a little weird, I'll admit I got lazy when coloring and just made them all blue.

    Again, I'm happy with the result, specially for my first digital hand-drawn map. One thing that helped me was to just go on Google Maps and use historical cities as inspiration, for this map I jumped around France a bit, unfortunately I don't remember the exact names of the places I used.

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    Great map! Hahaha, the one thing I would have pointed out, that could enhance the map, was some color variety on the buildings.

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    Not to fret, my next piece will have a great variety of roof colors

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    Excellent map! I agree that more variety on roof colors would be good, but also not too much variety! It’s actually shocking how uniform roof colors and styles can be in a lot of old cities and towns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daia Maps View Post
    One thing that helped me was to just go on Google Maps and use historical cities as inspiration, for this map I jumped around France a bit, unfortunately I don't remember the exact names of the places I used.
    It looks like Conques in Rouergue, southwestern France.

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    Yes, that was it! This is the town I used as my main reference. It was almost a trace haha, but I wanted to get a better feel for how a town might be organized.

    I'm impressed you managed to recognize it, I feel like most people wouldn't know even their hometown from above, let alone from a drawing.

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    That is a nice map and it is impressive that somebody can recognize it from the top down fantasy plan. Your shadows look pretty good and consistent.

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    Thank you for the compliments. I'll admit that the shadows are just the Photoshop Drop Shadow effect, with a little bit of manual corrections here and there

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