nice-looking mountains
Some WIp work on western region (moutains and forests). here's what I've done so far:
Opacity of trees may be increased and I'll redo the three mounts in the forest in the west.
Last edited by - Max -; 07-19-2014 at 08:24 AM.
Hi Max, this is looking pretty good. I really like the mountains, and the door in the big mountain nicely fits the style.
I hope I'm right in assuming that you are inviting comments by posting here. If you don't mind me saying, I think the forests look a bit strange. Perhaps if the density of trees changed, so some areas look thicker and others more sparse, and/or if the trees overlapped one another more often. The other comment I have - and you may already be planning to do this yourself - perhaps hide an area of the border where it overlaps the mountains, so it looks like the map is spilling out of the frame.
Otherwise, looking really good - I particularly like the woodcut effect on your coastal waves and the crosshatch near the coasts. Are they done in PS?
THW.
Comments are welcomed THW
What I had in mind for the forests was to choose a non overlapped style that would fit better with Blaeu's mountain's style (like I did on Provinces of Selen map) but maybe it doesn't work that good due to big areas, I don't know. I'm gonna try to increase opacity and/or add engraving lines style on a bottom layer to see if it's better. I'm not really sure to know how overlap good with this style of forests...
At the start I was planning to erase mountains off the border. And yes waves and crosshatch are made with PS ( first is engraving like pattern, second hand-made brush used with dynamic parameters)
Anyway thanks for the comment.
Last edited by - Max -; 01-09-2013 at 06:47 PM.
Mountain and the forest are the special things for me.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."-Confucius
Old map and Historic map
Those mountains are awesome. Just beautiful.
Thanks xanuri and Urxed. Im very satisfied of how those brushes works
A few advances and some stones brushes set to use next... I'm still trying to figure how overlap the trees on the forests
Last edited by - Max -; 07-19-2014 at 08:25 AM.