Aernemergenland - My first black-and-white regional fantasy map!

[Wired]

I've started with the forests. Still trying to refine the outline, though.



By the way, does anyone know a good way to depict wooded hills? The area between the mountain range should consist of rolling hills, many of them quite high and steep, but I'm not certain how to best draw this. A bit like this.

[J.Edward]

Hey wired. The link you posted comes up with an error. No image to see.
As for the forests/hills, sapiento's hyboria map has forests that convey as hilly.
Maybe you could try something like that though showing that in black and white could be tricky.
Here's a link - http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...049#post266049

[Wired]

Strange. It should show this image:


And thanks for the link for Sapiento's map. I don't think I can replicate that with a B&W map, though.

[Wired]

I'll just go with hills drawn inside the forests without any great bells and whistles.

I also refined my approach to drawing forests a bit.



On the left you should be able to see my old forest, which I drew by creating the semi-circle brush first and using that to block in the woods, after which I drew the outline over it with a simple hard brush. Looks decent-ish enough from a distance, but wasn't what I wanted. With the forest on the right side I did it the other way around: draw the outline first, duplicate it, then give the duplicate a 3px center stroke. After that I move the duplicate downwards a few clicks and erased the northwards-facing parts, thereby creating a simple depth effect that I'm quite happy with.

[Wired]

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Newest version. I'll add two or three smaller forests, then I'll do some rocky cliffs and shores.

[Chick]

I think your hills look fine in the forests. They are as tree-covered as most of the space around them It's clear what you are conveying, and that is the most important thing

[ChimeraArtz]

Looks awesome! I love the mountains. I tried drawing my own but they looked like crap lol.

[Wired]

Thank you, chick!

And Chimera, don't worry. I had to try more than once to get them to look the way they do now. It's all trial and error and patience. Might be easiest, though, to try and follow this short tutorial.

[Wired]

Okay, I still haven't done the cliffs or the location symbols, but I did add a large swamp region and a beaches/marshes layer at the coast, which I then nibbled to death with an irregularly shaped brush. Ah, yes, and the remaining forests and the gras have been added.



Enjoy!

[arsheesh]

This is coming along quite nicely Wired! Great work so far.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh