Fjorheim - Back to mapping again

After taking an almost 2 year long break from mapping due to working on a BA in PR and media, as well as some organizational work, I have finaly dusted of my copy of CC3 and decided to reawaken my old hobby..

First thing I noticed. It was not like riding a bike.. I basically had to re-learn a lot of stuff, but I get that good old feeling of creativity back :)

Anyhow, the reason of posting this map is partly to "force" myself to follow trough on more maps(as I have plenty of started maps), and get some tips along the way :)


So please fire away :D

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Here is a more updated map.. quite a lot to work on still, but I thik the coastline kinda works better with these effects.
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Looks like a good beginning. You are right about the rivers, I think they should meander more. They look too straight to me. I also do not especially like the mountain range packed with symbols, it seems too thick. It might be because I prefer longer mountain ranges (so don't take it too seriously if you've made it look like this on purpose ^^). If I were you, I would use less symbols perhaps - what you have there is very repetitive. Hope I helped you. I'm glad you reawakened your creativity and got back to mapping. I myself suffer from a lack of time and miss mapping - it's always such fun. :)

Thanks for the feedback :)
Sad to hear about your lack of time :(
The mountain range was done like that on purpose to test out the look, and up close it looked decent enough, but zoomed out it does clutter up I feel they are looking a bit to small, so Ill probably redo them. Make them more massive probably.. but then I have to take into account wind direction and such... I should probably roam around the forum looking for some info on that :)
Edit: Totally reworked the map style, and cut out all the rivers for now, until I get them right. I am more happy with this style, even if there is quite a lot of work left to do.
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What can I say? This style is so awesome that there is little you can screw up while working with it.^^ Your map is looking great already.

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Sad to hear about your lack of time :(

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Thanks for sympathy. My holidays are coming, so hopefully I will get back to mapping real soon. :)

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Originally Posted by Lyandra

What can I say? This style is so awesome that there is little you can screw up while working with it.^^ Your map is looking great already.



Thanks for sympathy. My holidays are coming, so hopefully I will get back to mapping real soon. :)

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Yeah, the style is really good, and to top it off it allows me to focus on learning a natural way to place map elements to get a realistic "flow" in a map without spending to much time on "beatifying things" That way I can get the hang of rivers, mountain chains, wind, etc before I dare enter into raster cartography :)

Oh, and hoping to see some maps during your holiday :) I like what i have seen from your style :)

Excellent stuff, very cool style.

The new style looks great!

Here is the results of a bit more work on the map :)
I think I am done tinkering with this for now, since I have some scaling problems that popped up after I snafued something somewhere, but all in all it was a fun exercise to work with :)
Still want some more feedback thou,to bring with me to my nex project, or incase I will go back to tinker with this one :)


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Nice progress. :) The river is meandering nicely this time, though it looks a little too blurry for my taste. Good luck with your next project!

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Oh, and hoping to see some maps during your holiday :) I like what i have seen from your style :)

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Thanks. :) I'm looking forward to trying out digital mapping, till now I mostly doodled on paper in my free time, never truly finishing anything.^^