The world of Etrakien

[Clercon]

I think the hills look great, and the green border outlining the land works quite well.

And I'm stunned that you drew all those mountains by hand. Very impressive.

Thanks for the nice words. I actually tried to do a pattern for the mountains at first but it was hard to get them the way I wanted. So I realized that there is no shortcut to good looking mountains so I did them all by hand. But it doesn't take that much time to do. For every mountain range I did the time to do it decreased a lot. And it was actually fun to see the ranges develop and the carachter of the land take shape.

Ditto. The hills look very nice. Did you do those with a tablet or mouse?

I did them using a tablet. Without a tablet I never could have done this map.

it looks good, I love to see more people using hand drawn mountain ranges.

The only issue that sticks out to my eyes would be the river on the south-west, I would expect a river that started on the western edge of a mountain to drain to the western coast, not switch around to the east.

In my opinion hand drawn mountains look better and are more fun to do then patterns. Yes it takes a lot more time but the result really pays off.

About the river....well in fantasy worlds the rivers don't always behave the way you expect ;-) Honestly I didn't think about....but for now I think I stick with the abswer above.

[Clercon]

So I decided to remake the hills. It was something that was missing....couldn't put the finger on what but I tried something else. Here is the result. In my opinion it feels more in line with the rest of the map.

[jfrazierjr]

I like both. Can't make up my mind which I like more...

Joe

[Clercon]

So my litle map is one step closer to the finishline. All terrain is done. So what's left is to put in all the cities and countries.

cheers

[ravells]

This looks utterly beautiful, Clercon - great work. It's a very artistic and individual map.

[Karro]

This looks utterly beautiful, Clercon - great work. It's a very artistic and individual map.

Seconded. The system tells me that I need more than that one word to post a message, so I'll add "looks great!"

[Badger]

That is an awesome map you got there... beautiful work

[Will Phillips]

So my litle map is one step closer to the finishline. All terrain is done. So what's left is to put in all the cities and countries.

cheers

This is a fantastic piece of work you've got going so far, Clercon. The map's looking good, and I'm always stoked to see thought going into the world it represents! Nicely done!

Have you considered making the mountains a dark shade of brown instead of straight black? Being the only black on the map, it stands out a whole lot.

Great work so far man - I'm looking forward to how this progresses.

[Clercon]

Not many updates lately, but you don't get that much time in front of the computer during summer. Anyway here's a small update. I decided to expand the map a bit in the south. No countries or towns yet. I'm coming to that.

:-)