Very nice work
Very nice work
This is completely amazing!
Thank you!Originally Posted by Cyrus Deshahl
This is beautiful work with so many little details to pore over. I love the colours and I rather like the striking contrast of the dark mountains. They really 'pop' off the page. The city icons are fab too. My only nitpick would be with the pine forest at the top. I like the look of it very much, but it's got something of that 'repeating pattern' vibe. It works beautiful for smaller clumps of trees, but in the larger area you can pick out horizontal lines, and that pulls me out of the fantasy somewhat.
I liked the original black & white map very much, but this is a huge step up, so congrats on that! Will rep if I can.
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
Great map Wired, i watched you make it and it gave me some ideas how to make new things in my maps too.
Thank you.This is beautiful work with so many little details to pore over. I love the colours and I rather like the striking contrast of the dark mountains. They really 'pop' off the page. The city icons are fab too. My only nitpick would be with the pine forest at the top. I like the look of it very much, but it's got something of that 'repeating pattern' vibe. It works beautiful for smaller clumps of trees, but in the larger area you can pick out horizontal lines, and that pulls me out of the fantasy somewhat.
I liked the original black & white map very much, but this is a huge step up, so congrats on that! Will rep if I can.
Glad you like it.
Wired, this is the first post I'm making on this forum. This map is pretty outstanding. The way you weave the water is so natural it almost disappears altogether. It's the same with the mountains. They just rise and fall with total ease. I always struggle making my "zones" feel different, and you do so in a way that makes each one unique while contributing to a consistent, seemless, whole. Well done.
Thank you for the high praise.
Now this is what I call an update! While the original is a good map on its own right, I do feel that this version really makes the world come alive. I'm very partial about b/w maps like the original in general - for some reason I always have a hard time making them out, they seem to become a blur in my eyes. So for that reason alone I'm thrilled to see a updated, full-color version!
I really adore the shorelines, and the ocean texture in general. It works very harmonically with the color of the landmass. I think my favorite thing about this map is still the Quiet Marshes area. It looks fantastic. The Sentinel Stones look great as well. The only thing I'm not a fan of are the pine trees. Aside from the pattern issue ChickPea already pointed out, I just don't think they quite fit in with the other elements, even if they do look good.
Anyhow, a fantastic re-doing of an older map. I can't seem to rep you at the moment, sadly.
The backstory sounds interesting as well. Have you done any other work on this world? Stories, RP or the like, I mean.
No, not yet. What I've written and created so far came during the creation process of the map. The more I draw, the more the setting becomes alive. I'll start a local map this week, and I've got half a dozen other maps already planned for the setting. No stories exist as of this moment, except in my mind. Which is rather ironic, seeing how I came to the field of cartography as a means of cutting costs on my own writing projects. That is, I used to be a writer trying to do cartography, now I'm a cartographer with no time to do any writing. *sighs*
Depending on how much time and effort I'm going to put into the project I could see myself trying to adapt it to D&D 5e.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
