J's Inkman Experiment thread

[Chashio]

Stylized waves and sea creatures, mainly, but I haven't made any elements yet. Though I have done some rough degenerate sketches in varying degrees of interest and thought about it a lot... I'll probably get around to actually doing it sometime soon, haha.

[Sapiento]

Beautiful designs, John!

[ChickPea]

I absolutely love your iso icons! Too bad you're not eligible for the current Lite Challenge, because I think you would have walked it with these.

Fantastic and inspriational work, as always, J.

Can I ask what you font you use. Is it one of the Fell typefaces? You used the same one on some of your LotR maps, I believe.

[Meriba]

A really great bunch of ideas nicely done. Congratulations J., spectacular!

[J.Edward]

Thank you Sap.
Thanks as well ChickPea.
I miss doing the lite challenges. They were fun.
I thought about putting something in anyway, even though I couldn't win.

The font in the LotR maps was 1550, which is totally free to use.
It's a great font but the uppercase J and U were problematic. The J looked more like an I and the U was a V.
I had a project for a client that needed those uppercase letters so I went to MyFont.com and finally bought some new fonts.

The one used here is called 1651 Alchemy by GLC. They do a number of great historic fonts.
The license wasn't costly - $22.50. Some are as low as $10. Others are high - $66 for the Garibaldi family of fonts [which was at a discount and still a bargain].
It's worth it sometimes to just go buy good fonts when you need them. Well, if you're doing commercial work it is.

[J.Edward]

Thanks Meriba. You slipped past me while i was writing that last post.

[ChickPea]

Thanks for the info on the fonts. I do love a classic distressed serif font, you know, something that looks like it could come from Shakespeare's era. GLC have some really gorgeous fonts (I wasn't familiar with them before now). I have to admit I've only purchased fonts once in my life, and even then it was a whole family and it was discounted to a ridiculously cheap price. However, I'm strictly an amateur and don't need to worry about usage rights, so I tend to make do with the free stuff.

I have to stop looking at MyFonts now before I'm tempted to break out my debit card ....

[J.Edward]

I have to stop looking at MyFonts now before I'm tempted to break out my debit card ....

I know, right.
I had to seriously reduce what I was going to get.
I love fonts and lettering so I had a hard time not getting more than I did.

[Ilanthar]

Fantastic work... And thanks a lot for sharing those!

[J.Edward]

Thanks Ilanthar.