Hi all, wanted to show off work I've been doing for historical fiction the last couple years. The first is for the book A Man of Honor, or Horatio’s Confessions by J.A. Nelson:
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Then from Genesis Awakens by AK Howard:
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Basically used the roughen filter in illustrator turned to the lowest setting, and a great font from GLC.
Not all illustrations lend themselves to this technique: you need to have a low number of points labeled, and be able to keep text off of coastlines where possible. But I've enjoyed the results...