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    Quote Originally Posted by torstan View Post
    Be a little careful about elements going vertically in the isometric view. Those elements tend to break the illusion of 3D in an isometric view. The river at the top would tend to wander more left and right than go straight up.

    For the swamp, broken horizontal lines with tufts of grass are traditional.

    Just small comments really - it looks great!

    I'd certainly suggest moving this over to a digital map. If you don't have one, invest in a tablet. You're pencil work certainly suggests you'd get a lot out of it.
    I have a nice Tablet - I use it constantly instead of a mouse, though people struggle to use my computer because of it.

    I'll have a look at that Northern part of the river as I am not happy with it.
    The main features have been exaggerated in size.

    I am going to try a few techniques on the swamp.

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    Sounds good, I'll be interested to see what you come up with.

    With the river, when it's going straight up, there's no way to show the foreshortening that you'd expect in an isometric view. As soon as you introduce bends in the river, make sure that the deviations left to right are larger than the vertical deviations. This will pound home the illusion of a 3D view.

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    As others have said, your iso map is quite fantastic!
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    This map is definitely one of the more amazing ones I've seen on this website. I can't wait to see more!

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    Wow! That hand-drawn map is gorgeous. And I know it isn't polite to stare, but . . . but . . . okay, fine, have some rep!

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    Sweet bit of art Darran!

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    Wow. I think I'll try something similar... but it'll take a while, and again, yours is just amazing.


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    I have done some work on this map having done the western hills and finished off the mountains.
    I am working on a few samples of the swamp that I'll post up soon.


    Dragon Lands of Glorantha - isometric sketch-02

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    The smaller tributaries in the top need to have a few curves added. The straight line is jarring.

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