Motherland and Island group

[Sirith]

Thanks for the welcome and the comments, I'm glad you like my maps

pyrandon > I hope to learn a whole lot here, as well. It's nice to have a place devoted to mapmaking, I have been looking around here for a while and some maps are just inspirational and plain awesome.
What exactly do you mean with minimalist style? I'm not really sure I understand what you mean..

ravells > Thanks for the comment, the most useful ones are those where people tell you what they see and feel when looking at a piece (be it art or maps or whatever) IMHO. So, thank you

Also, I could make a walkthrough of sorts. I usually make a whole lot of wip-saves, because Painter is not always 100% stable (and you'll always see that when you decide that it's not going to happen anyway, that the program freezes and the save is corrupted ). So I could put something together. I'll take a look at it

[ravells]

I'd love to see a walkthough Sirith, I have painter but I very rarely use it which is a real shame.

[pyrandon]

What I mean by "minimalist" is that your lines are fairly clean and separated, and the coloring is basic. These are not "busy" maps with two million symbols and color changes and such, and so they could fall into the "plain" category (or worse yet, "boring"), but they do not: they maintain interest and pleasure in their basic, good cartography!

Hey: if you did a walk-thru in Painter that would be awesome! We have nothing in the Guild to my knowledge using Painter, and I'm sure others would really appreciate that software's presence (and even if not, people like me who just plain old love tutorials would like to see you "at work"!)

[Sirith]

Ah, that makes sense . I'm glad I found the balance in these maps between being simple yet maintaining interest, I hope I can retain and push this aspect.

I'll gladly make a walkthrough, I know I always love seeing tutorials and walkthroughs by other people

Also, mind if I add you to my friends list on DA?

[pyrandon]

(I know I'm gonna feel real stupid for asking this when I see the response, but --gulp--what's DA?..)

[Yandor]

I think hes talking about DeviantArt.com.... I could be wrong but that seems to be the abbrievation of DA that I know of

[Sirith]

Yeah, I indeed mean DeviantArt

Oh, pssht, I'm a she

[Yandor]

ahh Sorry! haha I tend to phrase my words so I use generic phrases, and terms so I don't get in trouble like that haha, guess I can't do it all the time

[pyrandon]

(Lol--at the "she" mix-up)

Sure, Sirith, I'd love you to add me to your friends over at DeviantArt! Especially if you have some art I can peruse (and maybe even copy...) as well!

Take care!
Don (and yes, I'm a "he")