Feedback needed on Regional Map First Draft - Shattered (Extremely Novice WIP)

[Becka S]

So after running through RobA's Gimp Tutorial with one of my other maps I've decided to make a colour version of this one as my drawing skills weren't up to it.

So far I've done the first part to randomise the coastline. I'm attaching it before I move to the colorising steps to see what people think as Alait's coastline ended up a bit smooth.

Please tell me what you think.


shattered map.png

[Becka S]

Roughed up the coastline a bit more. Hopefully i haven't overdone it. Then I worked through the tutorial to the end of the second pdf so now we have the base land and sea colour. As always feedback would be appreciated. shattered map 02.png

[Josiah VE]

I don't have too much to say yet, a good start. The coastline has a good amount of detail I think. Looking forward to it develop.

[ChickPea]

Coastlines look much better. Good job!

[Becka S]

This evening I've been working on the mountains and I'm not very good at mountains. I've done 3 versions and I don't think any of them work. Any advice on shaping mountain ranges would be welcome. Here are the three versions below so you can see the problems.

Thanks,
Becka

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[Josiah VE]

I'm afraid the attachments aren't working for me.

If it isn't just my computer you could try to re upload them. When it starts working I'm looking forward to seeing them.

[Becka S]

Not sure if it's just for you or not so I'll post them again.

shattered map ver 2 mountains 1.pngshattered map ver 2 mountains 2.pngshattered map ver 2 mountains 3.png

[Becka S]

This evening I did a bit more work on the mountains. I'm still not happy with them but I think they are getting better. I could also do with working out how to do hilly rather than mountainous terrain as some of the land that looks flat is actually somewhat hilly.

Of course one of the nice things about working in layers is I can always redo them later, so I've moved on and worked on the forests because I don't want to get so caught up in what's wrong that I stop work.

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[Josiah VE]

Hmm... that new attachment isn't working, but of the repost of the other ones I like the middle one definitely.

[Becka S]

I wonder why this keeps happening? :/ Let's try again.

shattered map with forests.png