Results 1 to 10 of 10

Thread: Mercavur

  1. #1
    Guild Novice Pyro_Spyder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    Somewhere NOT over the Rainbow
    Posts
    9

    Map Mercavur

    I am absolutely delighted to be here, and thought I'd start by showing what I'd done!

    I recently rediscovered the guild, and found several wonderful tutorials that I am absolutely in love with! So, I followed a few, namely Jezelf and Ascension's, and I was amazed at how easy (once I got a few bugs worked out ) it was to create such lively and beautiful maps! So many thanks to Jez and Ascension for their tutorials, and here's my own version of Ascension's Atlas style!

    As I was following the tutorial I figured out a few tricks here and there, and as I always do, started making up stories to go with all the names, places, and geographic features. I decided that this continent has been at war for many years, with a recent peace coming to the lands of the continent of Mercavur. It has been a full century since the last war, and so I decided that I wanted a worn looking map, and here's my aged map of the continent of Mercavur!

    Mercavur Atlas.jpg
    ~Its only a fall from grace if you don't enjoy it~

    Pyro Spyder My Deviantart

  2. #2
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Ascension's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    St. Charles, Missouri, United States
    Posts
    8,392

    Default

    Looks great, man. That's what I like about mapping, too...once you put yourself on the ground of this newly-created world and start coming up with names then ideas just seem to come out of nowhere and suddenly the world seems alive and you feel a bit like god and storyteller at the same time.
    If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
    -J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)


    My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps

  3. #3

    Default

    very nice, always a pleasure when more talented people come on board, which seems like about 2-3 every week. Thanks for sharing your work.

  4. #4
    Guild Journeyer Avengeil's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2010
    Location
    Greece
    Posts
    231

    Default

    Really nice!Waiting to see more...

  5. #5
    Guild Novice Pyro_Spyder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    Somewhere NOT over the Rainbow
    Posts
    9

    Default

    Thanks for taking a look! (and the compliments too of course!)

    @Ascension: Yes, it really does. I can't tell you how many stories I've half-written in my head just from doodling! I love coming up with all the details of the history, mythology, religion and such of places like this. I imagine what these cities and towns look like, what their language might sound like, how their culture functions day to day, and who lives there. Its certainly an opening of the creative floodgates for me!
    ~Its only a fall from grace if you don't enjoy it~

    Pyro Spyder My Deviantart

  6. #6
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Steel General's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Ft. Wayne, IN
    Posts
    9,530

    Default

    Nicely done!
    My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...

    Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.



  7. #7
    Guild Master Facebook Connected jtougas's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    Wales Massachusetts
    Posts
    2,813
    Blog Entries
    27

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Pyro_Spyder View Post
    Thanks for taking a look! (and the compliments too of course!)

    @Ascension: Yes, it really does. I can't tell you how many stories I've half-written in my head just from doodling! I love coming up with all the details of the history, mythology, religion and such of places like this. I imagine what these cities and towns look like, what their language might sound like, how their culture functions day to day, and who lives there. Its certainly an opening of the creative floodgates for me!
    Great Map !! and The above is SO true.
    I am the breath of Dragons...The Song of Mountains...The Stories of Rivers....The Heart of Cities.... I am A Cartographer....

    Finished Maps
    Kingdom Of Shendenflar Campaign Setting (WIP)

    Everything I post is free for use and redistribution under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence, except where noted otherwise in the thread.

  8. #8
    Guild Apprentice thomryng's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Tacoma, WA
    Posts
    39

    Default

    Very nice. I particularly like the semi-translucent Frozen Wastes. Gonna steal that.
    Thom Ryng

    Cruenti Dei Line Editor
    Sardarthion Press

    "The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)

  9. #9
    Guild Artisan Facebook Connected Rythal's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario
    Posts
    555

    Default

    Yup, looks like a good start. A few things that stand out to me, mostly from an Aesthetic point of view:

    - The continental shelf: seems very out of place with the rest of the ocean. I think if you blended the edge of the shelf with the sea, it would flow a bit better (no pun intended)

    -Mountains : could do with some more definition, particularly the peaks

  10. #10
    Guild Novice Pyro_Spyder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    Somewhere NOT over the Rainbow
    Posts
    9

    Default

    @Rythal: I usually would have more definition in the mountains, but I decided to soften them up while I was doing the 'aging' of the map in hopes that it looked like it has been on the wall of some guild or magistrate's office and has seen some better years. And I agree on the shelf. My original intention was for it to pop the continent off the page a little more, but I do think in retrospect that it is a little too harsh on the edges.
    ~Its only a fall from grace if you don't enjoy it~

    Pyro Spyder My Deviantart

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •