May 2014 Entry - Rudimentary Raiding Map

[Foomandoonian]

Hi all, this is my first post here and my first mapping challenge entry! I don't know if I'll contribute much to these forums, but I thought this challenge looked interesting and wanted to give it a go.

The concept is pretty basic: A primitive tribe of monstrous folk live in the mountains and prey on several surrounding human communities for their food and supplies. They don't have a well developed written language, so they've marked points of interest on their maps using pictograms and other symbols. It's like a hobo code. They're mostly interested in food and threats, so the symbols include bread and livestock (farmers), fish, villages and cities etc. They also mark on weapons to indicate how dangerous the people are in those areas.

It's a small map because they travel by foot and this is basically their whole world and it lacks sophistication because they do.

In the WIP images below there's a photo of my first doodles for this idea, then my Photoshop progress. I'm still adding in all the lines and then I plan to add more painting and shading and other details. There's more work to do on everything actually, but you can see the direction I'm taking it.

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I'd be very interested to hear any constructive feedback.