Earen - A Work In Progress

[megrim]

unfortunately there isn't, when i started the map the size seemed ideal, small enough to hide any inperfections and big enough to allow it appreciate a certain degree of detail... i guess i was wrong, but i will keep this in mind for future maps, ill keep posting as i advance with the map and the story for my book.

[megrim]

ok guys last night iwas sleepless so i decided to expand earen, as i was writing i noticed that the map is short and it lack fantastic places, since i am basing things from many cultures (greek- (special interest in the maenads who will be female "warriors" who channel the energy of spirits (called sylphs in most of earen) of chaos, that estimulates beyond belief their basic instincts and their lust for violance among other things . Scandinavian and all those Nordic tales about fairies and elves and so on...

anyways here is a draft of the expansion.... any suggestions?

[Ascension]

I only have one suggestion...git crackin! This looks like it could be epic and would surely earn you a nice shiny "Cartographer's Choice" badge. With all of that epicness the cities are gonna have to be larger, though, so that they don't get lost. Don't worry if they don't fit the overall scale of the map, mine never do and most never do. A big ole city lookin thing is there to tell people that there is a city somewhere around there, not its actual size according to the rest of the terrain. Good luck man.

[megrim]

I only have one suggestion...git crackin! This looks like it could be epic and would surely earn you a nice shiny "Cartographer's Choice" badge. With all of that epicness the cities are gonna have to be larger, though, so that they don't get lost. Don't worry if they don't fit the overall scale of the map, mine never do and most never do. A big ole city lookin thing is there to tell people that there is a city somewhere around there, not its actual size according to the rest of the terrain. Good luck man.

hows the ones on the top? if that doesn't work ill go with a warcraft feel if that doesn't work ill just put dots.

[Ascension]

Well if you want to go that warcraft way then I'd say that it's a pretty popular way to go for a parchment map. The two buildings that are above the words "Old Keep" are perfect so I'd stay with that painterly style. The round keep with turret just under said text is just a tad small...just a tad. The cities are just too small to make out any detail as to what they are.

[megrim]

Well if you want to go that warcraft way then I'd say that it's a pretty popular way to go for a parchment map. The two buildings that are above the words "Old Keep" are perfect so I'd stay with that painterly style. The round keep with turret just under said text is just a tad small...just a tad. The cities are just too small to make out any detail as to what they are.

updated version... the forest has been extended... in Galeah (the central kingdom of my story) they call it the endless forest since no one has ever made it back once the enter. Only record of people ever coming back to the north was once and it was a caravan over 40 years ago.

[Steel General]

Coming along nicely...

[Alecthar]

I assume it's the texture you're using as the parchment base, but whatever texture it is that's on most of the empty landmass space is tiling pretty poorly. You can see the seams, particularly on the bottom edge of each tiled piece. It's less obvious where land features cover it up, but there are still a few spots where you can see it.

I hope that doesn't seem nitpicky, it's just one of things I tend to see, because I've had similar problems in the past (and no doubt will continue to have them in the future).

[megrim]

I assume it's the texture you're using as the parchment base, but whatever texture it is that's on most of the empty landmass space is tiling pretty poorly. You can see the seams, particularly on the bottom edge of each tiled piece. It's less obvious where land features cover it up, but there are still a few spots where you can see it.

I hope that doesn't seem nitpicky, it's just one of things I tend to see, because I've had similar problems in the past (and no doubt will continue to have them in the future).

every time you nitpick god kills a cartographer, i see your point but i like some things faulty


updated version i am not sure about the shape of the mountains at the bottom of the endless forest...

[megrim]

any input on the last update for some reason i am starting to like less and less the bottom part... any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!