The Golden Sands, Redux!

[msa]

Best of luck with that, dude. I'm in the midst of revamping/updating my portfolio site and beginning the job hunt myself. Layoffs suck!

Good luck to you too. One down, two to go. Next two days are going to be very busy.

[Diamond]

Good luck on your interviews, guys. Getting ready to start a new job myself tomorrow after a nice little five-day break.

R.E. the map: Is this going to be strictly B&W, or do you plan to color it?

[msa]

Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 years since I last posted on this!

I made a few updates to this map that I wanted to share. First, I colored it--I'd like to convey a watercolor + line drawing feel to it (although I'm not sure yet how to do the watercolor look). I'm trying to make fairly subtle use of color here, with dark, unsaturated colors for the lines and light, washed out colors for everything else. Second, I incorporated the suggestion to start using the forests to help define the edges of the land and water to clean up the map a little bit. You can see this now in the interior of the southwest island, and since I like it I'll probably start trying to apply this to the shoreline too.

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