Reply With Quotelooks really good... be bold - cut wood
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I was getting frustrated with the way my Savage Lands and 4000AD maps were progressing (or weren't progressing), so I decided to redesign a map I did a couple months ago. I have some story ideas percolating for this setting, but they necessitated a change in some of the geography. (Plus, let's face it, it was an excuse to start yet another map.)
This map draws heavily (in its setup anyway) from Ascension's antique maps tut, and I'm also going to be using Arcana's nifty tapered rivers tut. For the mountains, I want to do some kind of semi-grayscale pseudo-topographical look, but I'm still experimenting on how to get the look I want. Ideally I'd like to achieve a look like the mountains on a2area's fantastic maps, but without going through all the terrain generating programs. So some experimentation will be forthcoming.
Here's the first few 'chapters'; continental outline and woodcut done, and some rough layouts for mountain placement. I may lighten the woodcut later on, but I kind of like the boldness of it right now. I guess it'll depend on how the text looks on top of it.
Last edited by Diamond; 03-15-2010 at 02:51 AM.
looks really good... be bold - cut wood
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The one time I tried to cut wood I almost took my damn foot off.Originally Posted by tilt
looks really good... be bold - cut wood
lol... not been doing a lot of it myself either - did have a lot of pallets that I cut with a chainsaw 2 years ago - but thats damn hard work, and murder on the chain, so next time - I'll drive them to the dump instead
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This is more what I wanted; I'm pretty happy with this now. Next will be rivers, experimenting with Arcana's cool-looking tapered rivers tut.
much better... like the look a lot, Im thinking a bit about the lakes though - they are totally wood cut.. and it might be nicer if they were a bit lighter than the ocean?
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Good point, I'll work on that next. Meantime, here's an update with rivers added in.much better... like the look a lot, Im thinking a bit about the lakes though - they are totally wood cut.. and it might be nicer if they were a bit lighter than the ocean?
And another update with borders and a whole lotta text (and a whole lot more to go...)
Another update... Nice thing about having Monday off is I can get all my errands done quick in the morning while everyone else is working, then spend the rest of the day on the map.
Lookin good, man.
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