Transceiver Tower Guidebook

[jshoer]

On the extrasolar colony planet Mondvert, Transceiver Tower is an independent city-state at the site of the original colonists' communications tower. This is meant to be the map in a tourist guidebook put out by the Transceiver Tower civic authorities:

TransceiverTowerGuidebook.jpg

The culture on this planet started with 8000 people on an ark ship, and this map is from ~300 years after the original landing, at which point this city-state has a population of about 10,000.

It's all with Copic Multiliners and a Pigma brush pen in my sketchbook. I decided to lean into the black-and-white-bars from my original Mondvert maps (links above) - which were of course inspired by US National Park maps. It was good practice for lettering and plotting out how I was going to distinguish different kinds of information in just black and white. Also, I think this might be my first real city map on the Guild?!

I could spend some extra work smoothing out the black shading, but I know I'm never going to get to it. So, you all get to enjoy my map now!

[Redrobes]

Thats nice and like how you can have a sketchbook for your world. If it were digital then you could have just used the colour range clamp curve thing and got the computer to clamp all the black to a solid colour. But the pen effect is nice.

[Arimel]

That looks great! I like how you did not need to draw in the roads as the houses form the framework for them. It allows the map to stay really clean. Excellent!

[jshoer]

Thanks!

Arimel, that was kind of a serendipitous discovery as I went - I started laying out all the blocks and buildings to figure out where to draw the roads, and then realized that I didn't need to add anything. It fits nicely with the minimal style (and meant I didn't have to come up with yet another style of black line).