Hey there. It's looking very nice for starters.
Check the Tutorials/How-tosection. There are a lot of stuff you will find useful...
Hey there. It's looking very nice for starters.
Check the Tutorials/How-tosection. There are a lot of stuff you will find useful...
Good burn in and horizontal paper texture. It has a nice natural feel to it. I like the frame. The lighting affect clearly shows the map's focus in the center of the page.
Sigurd
Last edited by Sigurd; 06-13-2008 at 01:57 AM.
For some reason, I immediately thought of Helium3's map of Heva. The colors are radically different, but I'm thinking the line style might be a good fit.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
Very classy look. I would reconsider the woodcut style on the oceans, though. Doesn't seem (at least to me) to be jiving with the rest of the style.
I have to both agree and disagree. It might be a bit dark, but I like the effect from a conceptual level. Perhaps you could space the lines out just a bit more to lighten it up a hair.
I love the border. It goes very well with the color palette you are using.
As for mountains, there are quite a few tutorials for mountains, but I would say a hand drawn style would work very well for this map as long as you pick the right colors. And of course, hand drawn mountains means hand drawn forests with trees tops AND tree trunks to me...
Joe
My Finished Maps
Works in Progress(or abandoned tests)
My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
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Thanks for all the C&C. I have always liked to have new eyes on a project. The insights are very helpful.
I agree with the mountains and forest being hand drawn. I may go back and look at the inspiration to see how they did it.