It's looking very nice! And the names sounds like "South West of France".
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Sample map highlighting my latest free brush set. I wanted to give an example of how sets like this can be used to tell a story. I stare at many old maps, and many of them were designed to support a narrative, and it's something I wanted to take a crack at but add a modern spin while still making it look dated. I'm pretty happy with the result.
- Base town/unit/flora signs come from de Fer Battlefield
- Landforms and water features are hand-drawn by me, trying to mimick a similar 17th-century style—I did okay. I could have gone up a point or two in the brush size.
- Fonts from Three Isle Press.
- Arrows and such are done in Illustrator, then I process them with tools from TrueGrit which I highly recommend.
In my brain, this would accompany (surprise, surprise) a book, and each spot was a Chapter following the progress of the villain with the blue sections being Interludes of a sort telling the hero's side of the story.
Last edited by KMAlexander; 03-11-2022 at 05:22 PM. Reason: adding some context
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
Would someone do that? Just go grab names from the south west of France?
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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
Very Nice!
oh thats a fun map,