City of Raijuvak

[Sapiento]

The last map so far for the Avalanche project, the city of Raijuvak

Hand drawn (apart of the forests), scanned and processed in PS.

[Clercon]

Really nice! I like it a lot :-)

[Ascension]

I like that color scheme so much better than a true medieval color scheme, very easy on the eyes.

[rdanhenry]

This came out very nice. The tree houses are intriguingly anomalous in this style. Those trees also seem surprisingly large compared to the rest.

[Sapiento]

This came out very nice. The tree houses are intriguingly anomalous in this style. Those trees also seem surprisingly large compared to the rest.

Thank you all.

The trees: it was not unusual on medieval maps that persons or buildings where at a 'false' relation in size. For example here and here. I made the trees especially bigger to emphasize their meaning; you can think of them as a kind of skyscraper.

[ravells]

Really nice modernisation of the medieval style, as Ascension said. Great colours and lovely work!

[Sapiento]

Thanks, ravells.

[Dron]

Did You really draw this by hand? Though the city is small, the work had to be quite tedious. Very nice.

[waldronate]

I like the hand-drawn elements; they give a nice primitive style. Unfortunately, the blackletter font seems jarring to me in that context. It's too regular, too machine-made. A little distortion in shape, possibly just in the baselines of the characters might make a big difference.

[Sapiento]

Did You really draw this by hand? Though the city is small, the work had to be quite tedious. Very nice.

Apart of the surrounding forest everything is handdrawn.

I like the hand-drawn elements; they give a nice primitive style. Unfortunately, the blackletter font seems jarring to me in that context. It's too regular, too machine-made. A little distortion in shape, possibly just in the baselines of the characters might make a big difference.

Good point. But there's still the possibility of printing the letters. Then the map would be hand drawn while the text is the product of a printing press.