After another short work session I started to add some colors, but they don't feel right. The maps I have seen were usually colored by continent, and there are no continents here really. Maybe no color on the islands?
After another short work session I started to add some colors, but they don't feel right. The maps I have seen were usually colored by continent, and there are no continents here really. Maybe no color on the islands?
Colour on the islands definitely adds to the appeal. Just pick out a scheme, or maybe use only one.
Love the look of the map here. Looks like something you'd find in an old book. I actually used to run the Nostalgia section in the book store where I work, and from time to time I'd come across old atlases. (Nothing ancient. Oldest stuff I ever got in was from around 1820.) Point being, you have a really good thing here. I guess my two cents on the aging would be don't discount they "ugly" marks that'd be in a book. Nice to have your typical aging/ foxing/ chipping- but think about spotting and stains. The things I always found most remarkable in the older books were inscriptions and stuff folks left behind. Really put it in perspective. =) I'm no expert by any means though, especially for older stuff- I'm sure other folks here have a better working knowledge of that sort of stuff.
I think the grey outlineshade of the land clashes with the colored political borders, which could be a bit more saturated and overlayed with slight texture.
I finally had some time to work on the map. I drew the cartouche and saturated the political borders a bit more. Naming everything has been a pain, and there is little space left inside the islands. But I guess that's ok. Old maps are very cluttered with text. Maybe I'll finish the text this weekend, and then I just have to add some ornaments and I'm done.
How did you draw that cartouche? I've always wanted to know how to do one
I found one I liked, and then used illustrator to redraw the linework (pen tool, pathfinder effect etc.) Then I imported into PS, I drew the colors and shadows, then distressed the lines a bit. SimpleOriginally Posted by NedS298
This is a personal project, so it sort of just fades away when I'm swamped with work. But I finally managed to find some time yesterday and did some work on the corners and ornaments. I'm just playing around with the layout and colors a bit before I do the weathering. What do you guys think?
I'm thinking "I wish I knew how to make something great as that.". What projection technique are you using?
Last edited by Iggy; 07-05-2014 at 01:21 PM.
I think the projection is called the Wulff net. If you're asking how I did it: I used autoCAD to make the lines of the globe structure and then exported to Illustrator, fixed it up a bit and added text. Then I exported to Photoshop. The rest was done in Photoshop.
The bottom corner drawings might be a little sketchy. I didn't have a graphics tablet, so I made the lines with just the mouse.
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