Welcome to The Guild; hope you like it here.
Hello, I'm here, following a link from a small cartography discussion over at ConceptArt.org. Somebody recommended the Cartographer's guild, and I popped over to see the site.
I've been a map junkie for a good long time, drawing my own since I was about eight or nineish. I even have a cartographer for a hero in one of my as-yet-unpublished fantasy novellas.
I was actually inspired to write a small post in my art blog about my map fetish, and I posted links and small versions of a couple of wonderful maps I saw highlighted here. You can also see some photos of maps I've done there as well. (I have a lot more but they're mostly packed up at the moment.)
Anyway, I feel inspired by seeing some of the work here. Hopefully, I'll be able to tackle my own maps again--I'm wanting to do an extensive paintover. It's good to see so many other people who are interested in mapmaking. I can't think why it hadn't ever occured to me to see if there were groups for this sort of thing, but I'm glad to have stumbled on y'all.
EDITED TO ADD: As for personal style: I tend to like a mixture of the realistic and the illustrative.
Last edited by PixelFish; 05-22-2009 at 09:42 PM.
Welcome to The Guild; hope you like it here.
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
Thanks. I've already had a blast poking through people's WIPs and seeing what folks have done.
Welcome, PixelFish! I am also a newbie - I look forward to newbing it up with you all!
Regards,
RK
Welcome Aboard!
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
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Belated welcome, pixelfish and glad to see you getting stuck into the forums!
Welcome to the Guild!
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
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MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave