Henderson Guthrie's Geographical Map of Tir Tairngire

[Jalyha]

I'm with - Max - on this. It fits the style. And it doesn't have to scream "forest" to you. You're in uncharted territory here. If that's how your people charted forests on their maps, it would scream "forest" to *them*. For me, it adds to the realism, a bit. Secondly.... if all forests are faerie lands.... you don't need to indicate FOREST, you need to indicate *borders* for the faerie lands. Which you've done

[HereBeLions]

Having stared at it for a bit I'm not so averse to the halftone now - those were good points y'all made. I took Max's advice and gave the map a bit of breathing room, plus started laying down the text.

[Jalyha]

Oh, that looks much better!


It really is a nice little map, you know. I can't wait to see it finished!

[arsheesh]

Great job so far HBL!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Diamond]

Oh wow, that halftone might be the answer - it looks fantastic, actually.

If I was to look at it with a super SUPER critical eye, I'd say the only thing that I don't 100% like is that in the key, the faerie lands boundary dots are much bigger than they are on the actual map, giving a sort of disconnect there. But that's a super anal-retentive criticism.

[Nathan]

Indeed. Looks good ! Keep going.

[HereBeLions]

Thanks, everybody! I think I'm somewhere in the region of finished, but feedback and suggestions are still very much welcome at this point.

[Jalyha]

I'm trying to find something to suggest but I can't

Also, I kind of want that notice as my signature like... everywhere:

"Remember: All woods are Faerie woods until proven otherwise!"


*giggle*

But seriously... the map looks wonderful, and I really want it to be a book so I can read it

[HereBeLions]

Thanks Jalyha! This is actually for a webcomic I have planned, though it's still in the scripting/worldbuilding stage right now.

[- Max -]

The curved labels for cities don't make really no sense for me since you have room to put straight labels. Great job overall.