These are both really beautiful! Great work and really nice expression in the lines. This is exactly the sort of thing that is very hard to do on a computer!
Hi everyone!
After a long time without mapping, two new maps...
I'm trying my hand to nib pen drawing. I made two maps in two different styles, the first one is a part of my fantasy world, Omyar, the second is a map of Gondor, inspired by the one found in the very nice "Atlas of Middle Earth" of Karen Wynn Fonstad. It's mainly a mean of practicing and trying new styles... so comments are welcome (and requested)!
Last edited by Eochaid; 09-10-2012 at 04:25 AM.
These are both really beautiful! Great work and really nice expression in the lines. This is exactly the sort of thing that is very hard to do on a computer!
Very nice!
Karen Wynn Fonstad lives?!
Somewhere she is smiling at your mimicry. Well done. I love the font too!
Question for the River Police: The Entwade River as it approaches it's confluence with the Anduin River splits into several other rivers, is this possible? Or did Tolkien make a Physical Geographical impossibility? I was always curious about this and wondering if the River Police could weigh in on it.
Very nice lines. I like how you interpret the original styles into your own maps. Its interesting to see how people adapt things.
These look very nice indeed.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Thanks everyone for your kind words...
Galendae: regarding to the confluence Entwade/Anduin, my guess is that it is some sort of marshy confluence, like a delta but into the Anduin. Anduin is sure large enough, and the land at that location very flat, so I don't think it is completely impossible. The scale seems a bit too much though. I guess a little marsh-texture like in the Nindalf would be good to add.
Very nice, hand drawn is right up my alley.
The font looks great.
Nice work! Those are beautiful maps.
I never took the scale of the Entwade/Anduin confluence too literally. And I agree that it's probably meant to be more of a marshy confluence than a series of established channels. Maybe even an Alaskan-style braided river?