@Ravs: blobby? ...need to add that to the WIKI for geographic terms
Seriously tho, I agree with Ravells, love the style...not so hot on the islands being so uniform in shape. If you're stuck on what to do for the archipelago's look at some real world ones, the Philippines is a great example. Might stir up some ideas.
...and congrats on getting married!
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Yes, I realized that as I created them, and have tried to do some things to correct for that, but I thought not enough.Originally Posted by ravells
The source of the uniformly round and blobbiness is the method I used to sketch in the initial basic outlines: I used a round brush with a medium jitter setting. Bigger brush for bigger islands smaller brush for smaller islands. In some cases it worked, in many others it did not--particularly the large islands. I'll have to go back and rework some of them.
Any particular suggestions on where on the map this is most offensive (i.e. areas you think I should focus on first)?
I'll take a look, thanks.@Ravs: blobby? ...need to add that to the WIKI for geographic terms
Seriously tho, I agree with Ravells, love the style...not so hot on the islands being so uniform in shape. If you're stuck on what to do for the archipelago's look at some real world ones, the Philippines is a great example. Might stir up some ideas.
...and congrats on getting married!
And thanks! It's been a very exciting time for me... the only drawback being I don't get to work on these things like my maps quite so much.
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Pimping my worldmap here. Still WIP... long way to go, but I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far...
Okay... tried to fancy up the islands and whatnot. Most of the major landmasses retain their shapes as-is. I also added a series of tiny islands along the southern edge of the map. There are no major land-masses (at least nothing of a size worth mapping) beneath the polar caps, but these islands stand as the southern sentinels of the arctic ice.
Unfortunately... my time is so thin these days, that I've made only minor progress.
Here is a black-and-white of what I've done so far. Black ocean, white land. I'll be colorizing this and making it look like what I've posted before as I get time, which will probably be taking place over the next tree or four weeks.
I already have my first midterms of grad school in about three weeks, so we'll see what that does to my time.
P.S., this is still only at 75% of actual size, due to my having trouble uploading anything larger--although the full-size file is well under the 4MB size limit, I still get errors when I try to upload. I think my connection is just so slow that it's timing out before finishing the upload, but it could be something else.
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Holy smokes that looks good. I'd lose my mind putting in all of those rivers. Nice job.
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Thanks... I'm not sure, but I may have lost mine. Of course that's only the major rivers showing (small rivers, streams, and wadis aren't going to show on a world-map), and they're not to scale (with the full-size image being 7300 pixels wide, there's a little over 3-miles per pixel, making some of those rivers appear to be something on the order of 50-70 miles across at their widest points).
What was frustrating was that I had drawn in the major rivers of the continent of primary interest to me (the north-western one) before I discovered a slightly better and easier method that produced somewhat nicer-looking results.
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Looking forward to see where this goes Karro.
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Wow!
I have looked at all your pictures.
This is really great!
I just downloaded GIMP. Didn't know you could make something so amazing!
Wow, thanks. I guess you mean me, and not something RobA did? (Because, of course, he is pretty amazing.)
This is still an ongoing project - it isn't abandonned, just slow going. I've made progress in the last few months, but nothing worth showing off, yet. Between work and grad school eating my life, especially this semester, I'm just completely sacked for time.
If you've downloaded GIMP, make sure and check out RobA's tutorial to learn a lot of great techniques (I think he links it in his sig above). The basic style I'm using is derived from that tutorial, though I'm making a few modifications to hopefully make it my own, as it were (though, since this is for my personal use, and I have no mapping industry aspirations, developing my own style is of a secondary concern).
Good luck on learning GIMP!
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What I would like to see on this map, is an outer glow that isn't just pure white. Maybe starting from sand color and then transferring to light blue, and eventually darker blue. Try playing around with different kind of settings and maybe the results will give extra looks to your map. (There must be some tutorials that deal with gradient glows).
At the scale you are working in, some of my first few attempts at overhead mountain fields would probably look pretty good. Once you get into it, get up with me if you want to try those and run into trouble.
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