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Great, now I have map envy! Great job Rob!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Fantastic!!
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Great, now I have map envy! Great job Rob!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Indeed.Originally Posted by arsheesh
I think the best thing about this map is the sheer amount of detail and text you crammed in, and yet it's still completely neat and legible. Kudos!!
Ha, and here's me thinking that I'm actually holding back on adding detail. I guess I'm addicted to detail.
That's actually one of the goals of this project, is to try not to add so much. I got bogged down with Sorol because every map required hundreds of new names, and it was exhausting after a while. So I wanted this world to be 1) smaller (success! The total land area is quite a bit less than on Sorol) and 2) less detailed (jury's still out I guess!).
New question: Should I retain this map style for other maps in the series, or should I come up with variations depending on the character of the region being mapped? I think I'd like to retain certain elements of the style but alter others... although I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble.
I, myself, would try to make the maps look like they had different authors so if you're doing one kingdom then alter the style slightly for another kingdom. Fonts and colors (or lack of colors) are the easiest way to alter things but also line weight, hatching or cross-hatching or shading, style and detail of the inset images, etc. You probably have this figured out but if not I just gave ya some ideas
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I guess it all depends on what the client wants, what the reasons are for the variations and whether the variations would take too much time.
The map is beautiful, btw.
That map is incredible! I have map envy too. >_>
BTW, I downloaded Bodoni for free from Urban Fonts.
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Nicely done dude...
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Well the client is me, so I guess it depends on what I want.
I'm thinking that I'll retain the style of everything except the title text, which I'll vary from map to map. For example, the steampunk title style I used here would not be appropriate at all on the map of the Sabo Jungles, so I'll need to come up with a Darkest Africa-style title for that map. I like the other elements too much to use them on just one map, however.
This is really, really excellent. The names are just perfectly Britoid, and the style feels authentish. What did you use for the paper texture, I can see "postmark" there.Bodoni and Didot are excellent stereotypically 19th century fonts, and yes, Winkel isn't exactly the most 19th century of world map projections (but I myself used it for MINE anyway. Winkel II and Winkel triple are from the late 1910s/1920s so it's not that far-fetched
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