Masterful usage of your brush pack ! I also love the color scheme here, pretty dreamy![]()
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I have a much larger version (4000x5000) over on my blog.
This is the sample map I made using my latest free brush set, Moronobu Mokuhanga. Really wanted to push myself a bit out of my comfort zone with this one. Pretty happy with the results.
I am being a bit cheeky here since this set is based on one of Hishikawa Moronobu's ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Ukiyo-e translates as "picture[s] of the floating world," which was the term used to describe this hedonistic lifestyle of the rising chōnin class during the Tokugawa shogunate. I decided to be less poetic and went more literal and made a map of islands and ships drifting among the clouds.
Landmasses were hand drawn by me in Photoshop. The font is Nazare, which I licensed through Adobe Fonts. All the names come from ukiyo-e artists throughout history. I use Kyle’s Watercolor Brushes for the color effects. The paper texture is from True Grit Texture Supply’s Infinite Pulp, and they’re also where I got Atomica, which gives me ink-like effects for the text and borders.
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Masterful usage of your brush pack ! I also love the color scheme here, pretty dreamy![]()
Thank you! I was really pushing myself outside of my comfort zone with the color scheme. Glad the dreamy quality came through!
Writer & Designer - kmalexander.com
My FREE historical cartography brushes: Hogenburg, Kensett, Zuodong, Ishikawa, Hyacinth, Ende, Homann, Zatta, Janssonius, Vischer, Braun, Ogilby, Van der Aa, Gomboust, Harrewyn, Popple , Donia, Bleau, Aubers, L'Isle, Widman, Walser, Lumbia, Lehmann, and Moronobu Gansai, Mokuhanga, also de Fer Cartography, Battlefield, Settlement
As already said, this map turned out really well. And the brushes are really nice
This is just a fantastic piece of art. I love it! Agree with Thomas that it has a beautiful dreamy feel. Congrats again on a wonderful new set of brushes.
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