Very nice, forge22! =) I'm blown away by the positive feedback here. I saw that you have used low-opacity wall-hatching, personally I'd use this pure black. Personal preference I guess. Yeah, the furniture is always a chore, but it adds much to the overall believability of the map. I had a pattern for stones, grass, etc. too, but I always was refining this and it was more work erasing and getting it right rather than draw it completely new each time. For big forests I find myself re-using some pattern I made, but beside than not much.
Thanks so much for sharing your map based on this! =)
Vielen Dank! [without the 'e' btw. and capital 'D']
Steffen
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Jeez, I could do 100 updates to fix the description so this will be the last one. I'm not 100% sure everything if this is 100% correct, but the German version I was going for is. Since the English version is a bonus anyway i'll leave it at that. =) Some small fixes here:
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Nothing really sticks out to me except the trophy corridor which would be a gallery, long gallery or [adjective] gallery (such as marble gallery or... trophy gallery!)
Thanks for providing a translated version!
Forge22: I really like the way your interpretation turned out too though I'm not sure if I prefer the lower opacity hatching or the solid black hatching. I actually like adding all the little details such as the furniture - I find it fun.
Looks beautiful! Thanks so much!
--Eric
There were some really good threads created of people who wanted to try working this way. I already mentioned:
Well... would you guys be interested in a downloadable tutorial-PDF with some more comments and thoughts or is this here enough? It wouldn't be a problem. It'll be my first tutorial I'd ever make and I'm not sure if it will be perfect, but I could give it a shot =)This is insane! I'm blown away by the feedback and all the love this style suddenly gets and what this thread sparked. Thanks so much guys, you are awesome! =)
Best wishes, keep being as inspiring as you all are,
Steffen
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Great work! I love looking at old castle maps like this, real or imagined.
Hilded
Thanks, Hilded! =)
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I love the graphics, but wonder about the Font.
It isn't a bad font, in fact it is quite pretty ... but it clearly looks like a lead typeset font on a map with such an amazing 'hand-drawn' style.
Perhaps a more 'calligraphic pen' type of font would match the graphics more perfectly.
(not a flowery script, just something with less mechanical serifs)
Atpollard, you are probably right. In hindsight I would use another font, thank you very much for pointing this out and making me rethink this =)
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