First Pass at a Political Map in CC3

[deanatglobe]

Here is a political map in handrawn style. I am still not happy with the text and am looking for the handrawn compase rose and legend I could have sworn I had .

Any suggestions on text placement would be welcome. Should I curve the text?



Thanks

[Patrakis]

Hello Deanatglobe,

That's a nice map. Very clean and crisp. I wouldn't go with curved text but i would center the names on their polygons.

Nice work

Pat

[RPMiller]

If you can find a rough texture and apply it to the political border polys it might give it a more colored pencil look which would be less jarring to the overall handdrawn style of the map.

[deanatglobe]

Okay, I did some tweaking of colors, I threw a texture on the border sheet. but am not seeing too big of difference.

I changed a few of the names to make thier style match better.




Here is the map without the effects on, someone was asking about the edge fade effect.

[RPMiller]

I can't see either of the pics. Must be that Firefox problem again.

[RPMiller]

Ok, I switched to IE and was able to view them. I like the look better. It gives an almost water painted look to the polys.

[Talamar]

Hey,

well, I like that map a lot. It is pretty clean and straight forward and tells just the facts it needs to tell.
I love the second version most since the colors are not so "bright" in that.
Very well done

[bblackmoor]

I see the original map with the colored edges, but the two most recent maps display as broken image links.

[deanatglobe]

Strange, firefox says the PNG's are broken image

[Robbie]

I'm using firefox and it seems to handle it fine.