Looks good... are you inking it by hand with regular pens or rapidograph like pens?
Looks good... are you inking it by hand with regular pens or rapidograph like pens?
I inked it by hand with a technical pen.
Okay, here is the coloured version.
Snag away, and thanks for the help.
Rwaluchow
Thank you,
I think my enthusiasm over my first map on this site led to some hasty inking, but my further posts will surely improve.
As long as I receive this honest and helpful feedback, I'm sure to improve my skills (which IS why I'm here); thank you to everybody who has responded.
Great work! I think this turned out very well. Very, very well.
Are you done with it, or thinking you will tweak and play some more?
Don
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Thanks,
I decided to play around with some layer styles in photoshop (a concept new to me) and this is what I came up with. I think it's a slight improvement.
What do you guys think the population of a settlement like this would be?
You used color ink as well? I know that seems like a stupid question, but I was making sure you didn't photoshop it after you inked it... if so, where do you get your inks for your tech pens? I love the colors
No, the colour was all done in photoshop. I just inked the pencil drawing with a black staedtler pigment liner; nothing fancy.
I think 10,000 might be a little high for the total population. It looks like there are about 400 buildings here. Now some of the smaller buildings outside of the city would be granaries or barns, and some of the ones inside the city would be offices and warehouses, and not dwellings. Of course, within a couple of miles of the city there would be an equal population living in smaller farming villages and homesteads.
I would put the population at about 4-5,000, and as for the military, I would put the garrison at about 200 regular troops with another 200 as town guard/militia, and maybe another 300 that can be called up as auxiliaries.
Realistically, the cost of maintaining a large standing army is quite burdensome, so, unless the city is a fairly important border city (which it doesn't seem to be due to the fact that the walls are in such disrepair)
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