January/February 2025 Challenge: Land of the Three Sisters

[Turambar]

Starting this thread to hold me to the commitment. I plan on redrawing an old may from my world of Edha stories, which I have been writing on and off for some years. This world is how I got into mapmaking during COVID (for the first time since I was a kid at least) and eventually found the Guild. I haven't mapped anything in this world in at least a couple years, since I wanted to improve my mapmaking skills first. One of my resolutions this year is to start focusing on Edha again, including revamping the world map. But in the meantime, I will be redrawing this small regional map that I did in the early days usig Wonderdraft. I will be drawing this as a parchment in-universe map, since that way it won't matter much if I make changes in the overall world map redo later on (the geography of this region will only change slightly if at all).

Here is the map I will be re-drawing:
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Here is one iteration of the old world map with some info on the world from awhile back (actually done for a challenge in 2022 when I was a new Guild member): https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...highlight=edha

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[Turambar]

Ok, I have a rough sketch of how I want to redraw this. I have not drawn a full map with perspective like this before and I am sure it is imperfect. If anyone ahs recommendations on how to improve before I dive into the lineart it would certainly be appreciated. This is an area largely devoid of trees, so I may not have any forests, except maybe in the right though this area may end up being covered.

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[Simkin]

Hi Turambar, the persoective lloks good to me. Maybe, if the map is of a large area, you can give a little curvature in the background.
Btw, I like your reinterpretation of the map

[- JO -]

A very interesting way of redrawing an old map, but from a different perspective! Very promising

[Bogie]

Cool idea to change perspective like that.

[Diamond]

To my (untrained) eye, the perspective looks good. And like Bogie, I think it's a nifty idea to change up the perspective like this; I admire your ambition.

[Turambar]

Hi Turambar, the persoective lloks good to me. Maybe, if the map is of a large area, you can give a little curvature in the background.
Btw, I like your reinterpretation of the map

Thank you! Great idea on the curvature, I have added this now.

A very interesting way of redrawing an old map, but from a different perspective! Very promising

Thank you JO!

Cool idea to change perspective like that.

Thank you Bogie!

To my (untrained) eye, the perspective looks good. And like Bogie, I think it's a nifty idea to change up the perspective like this; I admire your ambition.

Thanks you! I have decided be even more ambitious try two new things for me on this map, perspective and also a no lines style for the first time... I guess I love to make life difficult for myself, but what better time to try new things than a challenge map.

Here is my initial rough blocking in of the colors based on my sketch. As you can read on the thread i linked at the top, my world is a tidally locked planet around a red dwarf star. This region is one of the closest habitable areas to sun-facing side of the planet.

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Edit: I should acknowledge that this map takes some inspiration from some of Cashio's recent maps though I do a poor imitation of the style.