Yep, they do fit much better...in fact I'd say that they fit perfectly. I'm wondering about the colors from underneath showing through and thinking that maybe you need a layer just underneath the mountain lines so that the mountains can have their own colors apart from the land/grass. Just wondering, might not work, shrug.
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Well, what's going to happen next (just finished the forests) is that I'm going to go through and work up the text, mountains, and forests so they get the same kind of effect as the characters on the border.
Once that happens, i'll decide on whether I'm keeping it, modifying the ocean again, or scrapping the idea and going down a different route entirely.
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And.. here's the test. Definitely changing the font, this one gets the idea across but I need something thicker to look just right.
gotta play around with the forests and mountains a bit.
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Can you just 'bold' the font? Or maybe duplicate the layer and offset one of them a few pixels.
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Yeah, that works.
I did both, actuallyFaux Bold, then copied and transposed 1 px down and left.
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And after a lot of fighting with the oceans again, I finally decided to let the ocean locations blend in instead of doing the blood text there. I jsut gouldn't get it to look right and still match the land based text.
I'll probably go around and curve some or all of the water locations. It may also seem odd that there is a lack of rivers, but those are not a focus for this map.
I think it's starting to approach finished, yay
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Cool beans, I actually had an idea that worked!
One thing I noticed is just of the Stormlands you have the "Sea of ??", just wanted to point it out in case you overlooked it.
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Yep, there's a few water locations that are yet to be named.
Just waiting for input from those involved directly in the process
And while I do that, I can get back to the lego map
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
I think you're puffy trees might be a lil big...sitting right next to the mountains makes em look huge.
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how the heck did I not see that.
Blah! Well, at least the forests weren't has hard to do as I expected. 100% manually placed, but I found a few ways to make it seem less tedious (plus I have about a dozen of each type of tree to spread around, woot.)
Thanks for pointing that out.
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Yeah, I agree with Ascension. Trees should be a bit smaller...
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