Oct / Nov '17 Lite Challenge: Salvayke

[jshoer]

Thanks for the tips! Here is one of Barek's textures underlying the thing. I've also added rivers, and have been fooling around with a couple different styles for adding trees to the landscape. I've really wanted to do some pencil-sketch icon drawings on a map, but I don't they are really a good fit for the "clay" look. I'll have to consider an alternative.

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[jshoer]

Aha! Spent an hour looking through the Finished Maps gallery for inspiration, and I think I have a forest style to build from:

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What do you think? I'm still considering color here, and thinking about what to do where the forest intersects the topo relief caterpillars. (Should I make the relief caterpillar lines shorter?)

[Warlin]

Great shading work there Jshoer ! And I love caterpillar . For the forest, I have the same problem. If you look at old map, you'll find some possibilities : here. I try to find other today. Cheers.
Édit : there or there.

[industrygothica]

I think I'm going to steal this entire map style when you're finished! Looks fantastic.

[jshoer]

Oh, geez, this deadline is sneaking up on me! Fortunately, I had a flight today that gave me an excuse to get in a couple solid hours of cartography on the run:

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Thanks for the suggestions and compliments, all! I will try to incorporate what I can.

[Mouse]

Looking really great, jshoer

You still have 4 days? 5 days?

[Bogie]

Late Tuesday night, about midnight East Coast time ( between 10 & 11 for you.)

[jshoer]

Haha, yeah, no kidding! My day job won't get in the way of that at all.

Here are some initial stabs at making labels and provincial boundaries:

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I want to add roads and labels to the towns before this is all over. I think I need a better font for that...

[Kier]

Nice. She is coming together now. I saw the trees and thought, lets see where this goes, but with the town labels and the borders that really brought it together. I am liking it.

[Bogie]

Yes, it is all coming together nicely!