Kingdom of Braegor

[landorl]

I used a lot of layers. Each different color is on its own layer, and stacked on top of each other. I did this to make it somewhat easier to edit.

My basic process was to draw the map and then scan it. I only drew the coastline, hills, mountains and ridges. The woodlands and rivers were added in photoshop. I scanned it and then converted it to a b/w drawing.(I guess you could scan as b/w also)

After I scanned it, I used the magic eraser tool to remove all of the "white" area leaving only the drawings. I then duplicated the layer 2x. One I named "coastline" and the other I called "mountains outlines". On the Coastline layer I deleted all of the mountains, and on the "Mountains Outline" layer I deleted the coastline. I also added a color overlay to each layer to change the color to what I wanted them to be.

I then started adding all of my background colors and shading. My trees are a brush shape that I use, and I rather like the output.

I am zipping the template and brushes and attaching here. I have all of my layers set with the effects that I use for each one. The font that I used was Sherwood which comes with either Windows or Word (Can't remember which)

[pyrandon]

Wow--very generous response, landorl! Repped.

[HandsomeRob]

I love it. I always like seeing maps with a lot of detail, and this one seems very realistic and believable. I would like to see more!

-Rob

[RPMiller]

Wow--very generous response, landorl! Repped.

Agreed. Have some more rep.

[landorl]

Wow! Thanks guys. I have my second and third map underway. The second one (Kingdom of Gibeon) is nearly complete, and the third (Kingdom of Isara) is drawn and scanned, but is still being worked on. Isara is directly north of this map on the mainland, and Gibeon borders Isara to the west. Both of those maps are a little larger than this.

I have a post of Gibeon in the WIP area, and I will post Isara as soon as I make some more progress.

[Sigurd]

Such a generous response deserves more than 5 downloads

And some more rep. Let me see how this works


-sigurd