Well, since no one likes my hills, I revised them and put the revised picture in my album here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...chmentid=69908
Still not sure what is wrong with the coastline? Are you talking about ripples in the shallow waters, or something on the land side?
Good job on the hills. They're really good.
For the coastline, I mean the landward side. Perhaps a bit of a colour adjustment towards yellow/brown, or some hatching. Some cliffs can help break up the shoreline, and suit the other elements stylistically.
THW
Formerly TheHoarseWhisperer
Like you Chick, I cannot draw, actually, you draw better than I do. So, I seldom give advice on this type of map. I will say that I like the new hills, they have more detail and so they are more interesting. Well done.
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
YES! Much better. Now your hills are same style like your mountains. Perhaps just a point - hills are either foothills or remains of very old eroded mountains.Originally Posted by chick
If the former then they are near mountains and if the latter then they are located where mountains would be and look like a low, round mountain range.
A special admiration from my part on your labels. You are a natural for labels. I may perhaps know how to draw but I always struggle with labels. Font choice, color and size choice. Location choice.
Really excellent what you did here.
There are lots of reasons for hills, although what you describe is the most common large ones. Glacier retreats leave great mounds of loess or glacial till that become covered with vegetation eventually to make another kind of hill (drumlins, moraines, etc). Low pressure tectonics can raise hills in new areas, and converging tectonics in general cause land to buckle upward into what will eventually become mountains. Iowa is a great example of several kinds of "rolling hills" terrain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Iowa
Thank you for the kind words on labeling! For some good ideas on label positioning, you might like to read this: http://www.mapgraphics.net/downloads...es_on_Maps.pdf
Cheers,
Cornelia
You know, chick, those are actually some really nice hills (the revised ones). If you can draw hills like that, how can you say you cannot draw?Next time you should try doing your own mountains, as well as forests in the same hand-drawn style.
Well, um, thank you for the compliment, but that is the problem. The revised hills are some photoshop brushes I was trying to avoid using. I didn't like the heavy crosshatched shading on them and wanted to do the shading myself. However, when I tried to draw some in the same shapes without the crosshatching, they sucked, and so I revised the image to use the brushes after all.
I am starting a new map and I may try again, as well as try drawing the outlines for carpet forests, but I don't expect I'll ever be able to draw like most people here can. I think perhaps those of you who can draw well simply cannot understand why someone can't. Practice can help (I did finally get some decent mountains in the Freehand Mountains thread a month ago, with a lot of help from others), but there is also a talent to it that I simply don't have.
Anyway, those new revised hills are brushes, but I appreciate the compliment and encouragement!
Hehe, well they are nice all the same. Consider them well used in this map, then.
I personally can't draw for the life of me. Never could. However, I do think it's something anyone can learn and become good at, you just need to practice a lot.
Congrats on the commission, looks lovely Cornelia!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
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