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great color scheme on this one. I haven't had time to look at it very closely though, but I am loving the tone on tone color scheme
I don't read most of the story stuff...I'm not a writer and I'd probably get off topic more than I normally do. I'm sure that a fair number of members read those things tho. If there is something in the story that helps explain certain features in the map then include some sort of description. As for that nameplate thingie, it's called a cartouche (proper term) but call it whatever you like (I call it a headboard 'cause that's what they remind me of). Most of us make our own but there's tons of clipart and a whole smorgasbord of things in books to scan.
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great color scheme on this one. I haven't had time to look at it very closely though, but I am loving the tone on tone color scheme
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Here's the next version.
Added some more mountains, fiddled with the background a bit and started on some placenames.
NOTE: while the font is final, the appearance is not. I"ll be adding some glow or somesuch to make it stand out, but I'd rather do that to all the text at once instead of every little label that pops up
What I'll mostly be working on is some more terrain, like forests and deserts and the like, as well as more places since they're as important as anything else in this world. The last 10 days will probably be spent fiddling with the cartouche and the scale.
More nice improvements...
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I like The Velvet Sea, for some reason it really seems to fit the ocean color/texture. I wish I could come up with something like that, very nice and probably just an afterthought but I'll fixate on it anyway
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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There is a nice fuzziness and blur to your coastlines but the symbols that you have created for the mountains are a bit crisp in comparison. At the moment it makes me feel like the map almost has two authors. Also, watch the labels breaking the borders of the places they are labelling.
I love where this is going
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This is the latest WIP. I'm mostly just doing everything all at once now, terrain, names, little tweaks and so on.
I'm not happy with the trees. Think it would look better as individual trees?
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Last edited by Rahva; 01-18-2009 at 05:35 AM.
At this scale, I don't think so. You could try adding a bit more texture to the interior though.Originally Posted by Rahva
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Good map, Rahva.
My only criticism is that the labels on the mountains are a little difficult to read.
Thanks
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As it stands now I've just removed the forests entirely. I think the map is crowded enough without them.
