Thaene

Maps from an original fantasy setting I'm working on.
  1. 3d Globe 1
  2. When I joined this forum, I was looking for techniques to help me expand my understanding of this world through mapping.  
 
I found the answer to my...
  3. Since creating the map, I have tweaked the underlying painted landforms file at large scale, adding some vegetational texture hinting, micro...
  4. Here's a slight variation which in retrospect also looks nice to me.
  5. OK, now I'm back to the "earth atlas cloner" approach. Here I re-traced a raster version of the hex map in illustrator by hand (to add precision at a...
  6. Here's a different take on the hex map idea. My hope is to eventually do a large print, then work in vellum above it with pencil and ink to redraw...
  7. A hex map of the new projection with exploratory place names.
  8. At this point, the map underwent a long arduous process of conversion to a different projection. I didn't have anything in the way of sophisticated...
  9. After a quick re-trace and some photoshop work, I began painting sections using the cloning tool with an maps from an old (Earth) World Atlas.
  10. Here is a sketch I did in pencil on tracing paper.
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