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  1. 05-02-2011, 10:15 PM #1
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    Default May 2011 Challenge Entry - Empire

    Not quite sure what this is going to be named yet, but I'll be going for some sort of norse inspired empire spanning many islands and continents. The style will be an evolution of my Celinir map.
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    wow.. that already looks great. Looking forward to seeing more! Love the colors.
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    Looks good. There's some clear directional ridging that looks like a bump map artifact on the NW side of a couple of the mountains that might be worth breaking up a little.

    Love the colours - but at the moment they're not making me think Norse. The warm colour palette speaks more of a Mediterranean map to me. Love the broken coastline and islands - good stuff!
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    Thanks for the suggestions.

    updated the colours and also layed out the extent of territories. Subject to Change.

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    That looks great. Congrats on 500 as well.

    Even if I am correct, I would still advise you to follow your heart. This whole Cartographers Guild thing, it seems to me, is more about passion and skill and learning new techniques than it is about definitions and rules.
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    That's looking really nice.
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    thanks for the encouragement all!

    update.

    ###LATEST WIP###
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    Really nice clean feel to this map...I really like it too.
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    Latest....

    not sure about the mountains, feels like they dont fit or something. will probably change in a later version

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  10. 05-23-2011, 09:03 PM #10
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    Quick update

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