Working on my next map - Kingdom of Gibeon

[Hyptosis]

Gorgeous, for lack of a better word. Love the shape and planning.

[landorl]

I have done some more work on this map. I have added a little more depth of color to the highlands, and have added the city names. For this map, I don't plan on naming the smaller towns because there are so many, but I still wanted to show them based on their populations.

I need to add a few more river names, and special locations, but this map is almost completed.

[landorl]

Ok, after a little debate with myself, I decided to include the whole kingdom on one map. I had originally split the eastern portion of the map off to save on the size of the file, but I decided that I wanted the whole thing on this one map, so here it is.

I still am doing some work on this. One thing that I want to do is to do some kind of "fog of war" over the lands of Elyon, as no outsiders have ever been allowed in that realm, so, other than the coastlines, no maps exist.

[pyrandon]

This is really nice, landorl. I like it!

If you're creating this in GIMP or Photoshop, it would be easy to just keep Elyon hidden by "blocking out" that fog on a new top layer; that way you'd know what's in there but no one else would. Just an idea--or maybe that's what you planned all along?

[Eilathen]

I really like the "all in one map". The added parts give it an interesting shape...looks really good... . I love the style of your maps (I know i am repeating myself, but it's true ). Did you ever do a tutorial on how to do a map that looks like this? I'd be very interested... (and most probably way too ambitious ).

[landorl]

If you're creating this in GIMP or Photoshop, it would be easy to just keep Elyon hidden by "blocking out" that fog on a new top layer; that way you'd know what's in there but no one else would. Just an idea--or maybe that's what you planned all along?

That was what I am planning. I am just not sure how to do it artistically. I think what I might do is to find a cloudlike pattern, and then color in everything beyond the coastline using a new top layer.

I will also be doing a map for Elyon itself, but the people of Gibeon are not aware of what is there.

[landorl]

I can easily do a tutorial for this. I have created a template in Photoshop which makes it pretty easy (though still time consuming!) I have created several different layers and then set the colors and effects that I use within that layer. That way all of the maps that I do like this will end up looking the same, so if I want, I can later stitch them together for one massive map.

As I start to work on the next map, I will do a tutorial for it, and post it here.

[Eilathen]

That way all of the maps that I do like this will end up looking the same, so if I want, I can later stitch them together for one massive map.

That would be awesome. I'd really like to see the resulting map.

As I start to work on the next map, I will do a tutorial for it, and post it here.

Great! Thanks in advance, landorl.