Thread: March Challenge Entry: Iwaizumi

Hmmmm... I just saw the thumbnails and noticed Gamer's Map!! Firstly it looks freakin' awesome and secondly has already used some of the styles I was planning to use. So back to the drawing board on my buildings, bridge and trees.

Will post something up when I come up with something else.

Feel free to keep going on this, I'd be interested in your take of the style elements I used in your own style. Don't let any a comparable style stop you! I certainly don't "own the style" I use.

GP

PS: thanks for the REP!

Thanks GP. There are already two maps using ISO style representations of the area. I will keep going with what I had planned and will most likely submit a variation for my final entry. Will see how I go.

Generally I prefer not to use line work in my maps I work more with light and shade. The ISO drawing will be my first attempt a merging the light and shade terrain with some line work to defint structures and key featrues.

Good fun nonetheless!

Here is my latest WIP on Iwaizumi.

As usual I work up my terrain before adding the Map features.

I have coloured the landscape and worked up the water. I have also added the trees to test my tree pipeline. At the moment they are the only things with Snow the rest will come later. I have also played around with the finishing effect I plan to use which merges the colour world into a map drawing/painting.

I am still debating over the style to work my buildings up in.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance.

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I have been procrastinating over the buildings and the style to use. So in the mean time I thought I might work on the finishings of the map.

All that is really left is the buildings and snow fall. Maybe a little turblence on the river but then maybe it is running slower at the moment because the mountain snow feeding the rivers have not yet thawed¿

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Terrain and trees look good - I look forward to see how you do the buildings and village layout!

GP

That is an awesome map border - especially like those little pictures at the corners

Finding time to work on this has been a little difficult. I have done a bit of work on the buildings and inset and thought I might put up a post to show at least some movement on this entry. I have oversized the buildings on purpose and have made to more important ones larger.

Shrine, Graveyard, Square, Roads and snow to come tomorrow hopefully!

Anyways let me know what you all think. Feel free to pick it to peices!

Thanks a bunch

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One thing.... Tanneries invariably produce huge amounts of toxic waste in the form of acidic washes of ash or urine, pollutants such as fecal matter used to produce soft buckskins, and rancid fats. Pretty much anything nasty that is a byproduct of other things is a valued agent used in tanning skins. That means that a) tanneries are always on a river so that their waste will be carried away; b) tanneries are always DOWN river; c) tanners are not terribly popular at highschool pep rallies; and d) tanneries tend to be well away from the rest of the village and always down the prevailing winds.

Just something to consider.