Very nice. What is the scale?
Sigurd
Thanks!
The world is 25000 miles circumference. Total land mass is around 35000000 square miles, so close to the size of North America, Asia, and Africa. Land mass is around 15000 miles east to west, 10000 miles north to south including the small islands in the far north.
Craig's Cartography
Campaign Cartographer 3 User
I added a scale bar, though something doesn't seem quite right about it - maybe the style doesn't fit the rest of the map? Anyone have a source for different styles for this map piece?
Also added more place names and refined the Altitude, Climate, Rainfall, and Temperature maps.
Any suggestions for refinement or changes are welcome!
Craig's Cartography
Campaign Cartographer 3 User
The scale bar contains colors that aren't found elsewhere in the image. My suggestion is to export the bar by itself and recolor it in Photoshop or the Gimp. I like to use the simple bar without a cartouche, explode it, and change the colors and font. That doesn't work with the fancier bars, though, since they're not vector objects.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
I really like the names on this map, has a very celtic lilt to it, to me, though I don't know if that is your setting. One thing that jumps out at me is the fact you use a very stylized font on the map itself, which is great, I really like it, but the font for the scale bars is generic, takes a little of the continuity away from the maps flavour. Perhaps a different font would fit better for the scale bars.
All in all I really like it, the names give it, to me, a sense of its culture, even though I have no idea what it is. Really.
SeerBlue
SeerBlue is me, but more importantly the Four Happy Carpet Orcs +2 (FHCO +2) are Lizzy (BumbleMouse, 16), Race (Raith Eliathy, 11), Roy (Ol' Horsehair, 9), and Lena Marie (Lemur, 6) Kimi (Whurm,2), and Sachiko (MoMo,1)
All creative inspiration is theirs, from characters to maps to tells, I only fill in the details.
The names are (very loosely translated) Irish Gaelic. The culture/setting has a slight Celtic feel to it, though my main purpose was just to give the world a consistent feel. I really like the sound of this language, the lilt as you said.
Thanks for the kind words and the suggestion for the font change - I hadn't even recognized that inconsistency.
Craig's Cartography
Campaign Cartographer 3 User
This latest version is quite nice to look at. You did a great job, and I like the naming convention that you used as well as the font.
Perhaps. I was actually looking at the mermaid in the rose and thinking you could try to match some of those colors. It wouldn't take too much tweaking to get close to that salmon color in her hair. A little desaturation, lightening, and perhaps just a touch of noise to match the pastels look.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name