Imperial Worldmap of Arden by Schwarzkreuz

[RobA]

Map


Created in: Photoshop

Review
A recent member to the Guild, Schwarzkreuz has come on strong with his first sharing...The Imperial Worldmap of Arden is an extremely large effort (figuratively and literally) weighing in at a full poster sized 90x120 cm. The elements are primarily hand drawn and scanned, then composited together or turned into brushes for use in Photoshop. As commented in the WIP, this map is staggering! It is so darn big, we've only provided a scaled version here, so check out the full thread for a better view! (And if we ask nice, we might be able to get a full size map an admin could host here...)

Hey guys,
...my first map ever in this digital style. I have done some textures on handdrawn stuff before, but never something in this scale... It was always a dream of mine to really bring all the maps of Arden together to form this map. I started playing RPGs more than 20 Years ago and this world was there from the first day and walked along my side for the most part of my life. In the progress I have learned a lot about patient, ok I admit it, also about frustration. I have always be a person who cant wait to finish up things, but this map sure needed its time. I am very grateful to all those excellent Map tutorials and inspirations.

Original threads
Click here to view the Finished Map thread.
Click here to view the WIP thread.

[Clercon]

Congratulations and well deserved! Your map is absolutely amazing.

[Schwarzkreuz]

Oh, this is realy a great Honor. I didnt imagine my first steps here would bring me such an award. Its all thanks to this wonderful community that I could do this map. Long have this lands floating in my head but now they finally took form. My thank to all Cartographersguildmembers who makes this place what it is.

[Utoadpia]

Very nice.

[Lukc]

Congratulations Schwarzkreuz and very well done!

[sharkycharger]

This is an amazingly well-crafted map. Congratulations!!!

[arsheesh]

Wonderful! Congratulations.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[monks]

Beautiful! Reminds me of my Grandad's Times World Map he used to have on his living room wall. He was a 100 a day man so it turned sepia coloured over the years- no bad thing in my opinion.

monks

[eddypo]

That is an amazing map. Great job.

[Merkenau]

Beautiful map. But shouldn't it be called "Fürstentümer Xellen" rather than "Fürstantümer Xellen"?