Greater Sept

[Zenka]

Sept is the lands where my D&D campaigns take place. I had never drawn the land in full before and only roughly. At one point I had enough of my crappy charts and decided to spend the time necessary to do one proper.
I lot of inspiration from various postings here. So I thought it would be nice to add the result.
A lot of the style came from the tutorials over at Fantastic Maps. Doing things 1 bit has been my thing though. (1 bit as in: no gray tones, just solid lines)

The coastlines, roads, icons and border was Illustrator work, the rest is drawn with a tablet in Photoshop.
The illustrative dragons are redrawn from the D&D 3.5 books. (I lack the creativity to design my own)



Because it was to be a D&D prop I had to think about how to bring it into the real world. Since the effort was already taken, I took an extra step and printed it on cloth and stitched (by hand *cry*) it onto leather.
map.jpg
closeup.jpg
Excuses for the noise photo's. But you get the impression.

Needless to say: the party members were pleasantly surprised.

[Bogie]

Wicked Cool!

[eViLe_eAgLe]

While the map is solid and has a great composition, that cloth map is absolutely amazing, not to undersell your digital one, but I dare say your cloth map looks twice as good

[Ghostman]

Quite a bit of name-stealing there. Aside from that it's a pretty map.

[arsheesh]

Whoa! I wanna be in your D&D campaign. This is really fantastic. Great work on the illustrations. Kudos.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Chick]

Very nice work! Excellent job for your first posted map

[Zenka]

Thank you all.

Yeah, I 'borrowed' a lot of names from various places. I wouldn't have done that if it was for anything other than personal use. But since it is, it makes for a laugh and I was having a hard time thinking of new ones.

Next project will be the capital city. Lots to learn.

[Eilathen]

I'm going to echo arsheesh. This is a very pleasing work. And a very own style. Well done! Have some Rep.!
I hope to see more of your maps in the future.

Care to share some info about the setting? As a fellow rpg-er i am always curious about fictional worlds of other gamers

[Chick]

Yeah, I 'borrowed' a lot of names from various places. I wouldn't have done that if it was for anything other than personal use. But since it is, it makes for a laugh and I was having a hard time thinking of new ones.

http://www.namegenerator.biz/place-name-generator.php

[Domino44]

Fantastic way to start off with your first post! The map is beautiful, even though there is always room for improvement. That cloth map is simply stunning! I can relate with you about stitching with leather, it is a pain although I'm glad that it all came together so well.