I already like it, just based on the land shapes. Has anyone ever told you that you give good landshape, Max?
Love your work and all your different styles. Can't wait to see how this develops!
I second what Diamond said...your landshapes have a good flow.
It will be interesting to see where you go with this. A new style in development?
I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
I used to try a texture on text to give it a subtle distressed texture but most of the time I wasnt really satisfied with it. I tried something different (more efficient and easier to do) here, an inner glow:
Obviously, size of the inner glow has to be set according to size text. Also the text opacity is 90%.
It works also on other elements, I used a similar effect on the border lines (mostly visible on the larger ones). Some pics for the comparison (without and with the effect) :
Yeah, I do that too, when it's not worth it to get out the ink and lettering pen. But I do an inner glow AND a texture overlay using a paper texture, both just low opacity... 12 and 7%... or about there. There's a mixture of digital and hand-inked lettering in both the Wyn and Callis maps... can't remember all of which was which.
You seem fluent in English. But a video tutorial wouldn't require audio comments... you can add them with text at the point of reference. Just saying. Though I shouldn't talk. I still can't seem to get a video from a raw state to edited and saved properly for upload.
Sorry to put you in the firing zone... except not really... You post such excellent maps on a regular basis... you had it coming.
I love it already !
Your borders are just the kind I like : not to complex/present and pretty nevertheless. I got to say that I'm impress of the way you do your coastlines.
Does the heptarchy cover the north and south bank, as a nation built around a trading sea?