WIP - Ara World Map

[wynn]

Nailing down some styling with the colors etc. Going to end up shading the mountains/hills and putting small highlights on the trees. And I messed around with the coasts and water.

Oh and I fixed the issue with the river

[wynn]

Wanted to toss up a panned out view of the larger region I plan on working on.

[dangerdog15]

Wow, lookin good Wynn!

[wynn]

Hey everyone, well I've had some more time to work on this. I've refined my style i'm using for my mountains and trees, and here's the latest shot. It's a bit further north than the area I was previously working on. Wanted to use this area to try and refine my technique a bit, without touching the last work area. I think I'm getting to the point where I'm really pleased with the style I have down, and now it's time to propagate it to the rest of the map.

Also, I recorded myself drawing the mountains, here's the link for those interested. I mostly did this so I could remember what I was doing, but if there's interest, I'll do some more, and might even go over some of the techniques I'm using for some other stuff.



-Wynn

[occam99]

Mind. Blown.

Have some rep.

[arsheesh]

Those Mountains look great. I can't wait to see the finished product.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[wynn]

Here's a small update. More to come

ara_1.jpg

[Schwarzkreuz]

Your map is realy realy great. And the idea with the vid is also nice. I like to see how people are working, and your progress is just awesome.

About the font; try looking at the Roman Antique, it have some nice irregularities which would look great on the name-tags of the cities on your map. I dislike to modern lettering on such a map. But well thats only my personal taste.

[wynn]

Is this the font you are referring too? http://www.dafont.com/roman-antique.font

I actually kind of like that. I'm always struggling with which fonts to use for this type of stuff. I think I'll test it out and see how it works on my next pass.

[Larb]

Those mountains look excellent. I look forward to the finished product.

I think I'll grab that font too. I also often have difficulty picking good fonts.