is there any particular reason the British isles are in that map?
is there any particular reason the British isles are in that map?
It's in the explanatory notes (not shown) - just a visual idea of comparative scale.
Man, this map is awesome! This is some quality, professional work. Repped.
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Very nice Ravs, love the color scheme.
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This is a really lovely map. You certainly deserve good things to come from it.
Thanks guys, it's a funny thing but when I look at my own stuff, i don't think it holds a candle to the kinds of maps that say, Torstan and Ascension produce (amongst many others). I guess we're always our own worst critics!
Well, I guess it's a question of styles. I can't put together a map in your style or Ascensions or many others that is half as good as what you have achieved here. I really need to take a shot at these textured maps because the look really lovely. I have to say that your mountains are certainly noteworthy - given the amount of discussion they tend to attract you seemed to have really nailed them here.
It's a matter of aesthetics (beauty), information (detail), and cleanliness (legibility) that I can never fully achieve. You have got all three working on this one and that's what makes it superb. I tried to rep ya but I gotta spread some around. Hope ya do more like this.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
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Now, i wanted to look up my thread and ask for your map, ravs...and here it is already ^^
Great map, i really hope you win this! And thanks for the map, now I have one when i continue the book(did i mention that i hate it when books feature no map?!
I remember a discussion on here about books and maps and the quality of the maps in fantasy books...then i saw this contest in a Gollancz Newsletter...this was the reason for this thread in the first place...so again, good luck for you, ravs *keeping my fingers crossed*
As a sidenote...i hope they will put up some of the map-entries on a site somewhere...i'd be really interested to see how readers interpreted the world...i'm sure it'd be an interesting endeavour.
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