45-Degree Japanese City Map

[Tiana]

I like that concept for a title box.

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Here it is, the final piece.

Any suggestions before I finalize it?

San Vey 4.Jpg

[Adfor]

Superb! I love how the larger buildings are elevated upon pyramid style structures, and your pencil work is great! Are you going to color this beauty?

Cheers!

IR

[Tiana]

I like the addition of the flag.

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Thank you, Adfor.
I borrowed the idea of the elevated palaces, from the reference images of the Himeji Castle. It seem most of the Japanese castles were on tall brick foundations.
Like this one:
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As for coloring, I probably should. I fear it because my color pencil skills are lacking, and it takes me too long when using GIMP.
It seems, leastwise to me, that the most attractive and engaging maps are normally colored. So that should be my next goal... wish my luck!

Tiana,
Originally, I was going to merge the flag and the title-box. But the flag would have to be huge to fit the text in, plus it would obscure the design of the flag. So I separated them.

Sincerely,
Josiah

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Finita!
Here is the color and grey-scaled versions of my map. Technically, colorizing it wasn't near so hard, as I thought. I did learn that, I had to spray a fixative on it, otherwise the color pencils worked like a blender and smeared the graphite.

Yani, The Capital of San Vey - Color.jpg

Yani, The Capital of San Vey - Grey.jpg

Thank all of you for your co-operation, encouragement, and suggestions.

And thank you, Tiana, for the reputation. I just saw the notification a few days ago.

Sincerely,
Josiah Yarbrough