Thread: This is my first attempt at a map of any kind. Any feedback would be lovely (:

Atarius Couple of things I noticed, take this with a grain of salt as I'm a beginner, can the straight lines of the lakes. This is probably PS forcing the lines along the pixels as you draw, well that has happened to me. Also make the road / pathways a little more random, such as following around mountain bases. If the dark green / brown area are the mountains some of the roads take the most difficult route, roads will more or less follow the path of least resistance. Check out the tutorial section and I think it will help you out. Good start

I like the overall shape of your land mass, and the big wide river flowing into the middle in particular. Nice addition of small islands as well. Since you are using photoshop, may I humbly suggest checking out the Saderan tutorial (by Tear, found here). It is relatively simple to follow, as long as you take your time, and gets some pretty stunning results, even on your first try. I'm currently working on my second Saderan based map, and loving it so far.

Keep working on this one though, maybe trying to redo it using the Saderan techniques. Very nice work!

Originally Posted by Thrum

I like the overall shape of your land mass, and the big wide river flowing into the middle in particular. Nice addition of small islands as well. Since you are using photoshop, may I humbly suggest checking out the Saderan tutorial (by Tear, found here). It is relatively simple to follow, as long as you take your time, and gets some pretty stunning results, even on your first try. I'm currently working on my second Saderan based map, and loving it so far.

Keep working on this one though, maybe trying to redo it using the Saderan techniques. Very nice work!

Thank you kindly for your feedback, I will check the tutorial out and see where it takes me!

Cheers Vellum, got some stuff to be working on now!