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Really nice map! Love how you have done the mountains.
Thanks a bunch, GLS!Originally Posted by GLS
Fantastic piece and a joy to watch the creation of!Great work, Caenwyr!
They do look a bit like Arabic, don't they? It's actually a script I invented myself (I'm a real freak when it comes to that!), but I can't deny a swish or two from Arabic slipped in. I studied the language for a while and just love both it and its script.Wonderful work Caenwyr! The splendid shading/coloring lets the fantastic linework shine even more. Btw., are these some twisted arabic letters on the frame there? Keep up the great work and have some well deserved rep!
No worries Eilathen, I'm glad you like it, that's what counts!As promised in the WIP, here's your Rep. for this wonderful piece. I love it! Too bad i will not be able to read your novel.
Looking forward to more projects from your digital pen.
Edit: WHAT, i can't rep. you?!??That's weird. Well, i will be back
I'm glad you like it Ilanthar! I spent quite some time thinking how I could add the essentials without covering too much of the map itself. Glad it payed off!
Thanks Josiah! I tried to make it look both informative and ... well, pretty. I hope I succeeded in both departments!
Thanks a bunch Chickpea. I've done some hard thinking on the labels. In short: I hate them! Why spend all that time detailing the terrain and the vegetation, just to cover it in stupid letters afterwards? I initially wanted to indicate the duchies as well but decided against it to keep the map look as clean as possible. Even now it looks a bit cluttered to me, but maybe I'm just a sucker for empty mapsGorgeous work, Caenwyr! Your shading and mountains are beautiful, and I love the border and general framing of the map. My only nitpick would be with some of the labelling for the larger areas (like Ilan). The letters seem so spread out as to be almost dissociated from each other. You have the borders clearly marked and you've used typography to designate a hierarchy, so I feel the region names don't need to stretch over the entire area. For what it's worth, I'd have shrunk the space between letters and made them a slightly different colour too (maybe a pale shade of red), just to boost them from the background a little more. However, this is really nitpicking over little details. The map is itself gorgeous! Have some rep.
Me too Matt! However, I just got a new commission, which will obviously get priority over my personal work. So it might take a while before I can go back to this one - I prefer to postpone it a little over rushing it and doing a bad job!Goed zo! Looks really amazingI'm looking forward to seeing the grayscale version.
We'll see about that in a bit I assume. Thanks a lot for your kind words Daniel!
And that's exactly what I was aiming for! Thanks a lot mat_r!This is great! I love how clear and readable it is without sacrificing its artistic quality
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Really nice map! Love how you have done the mountains.
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Allow me to echo the others: this is a fantastic map, Caenwyr. Well done.
I have one nitpick: the country borders. As others have said, they are very crisp and clean, which is good; I'm not a huge fan of the dashed line though. I think maybe a coloured line would be better, so the shape of the countries is more easily discerned (especially when zoomed out).
But that's a minor nitpick; besides that, the map looks amazing--I love the strong colours
THW
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Wow, you really outdid yourself with this one. The colors are beautiful, and the whole thing has a look of softness to it that I absolutely adore. Really, really great!
