WIP - Mutant Chronicles - Mars

[Obbehobbe]

I've started to draw Mars in the Mutant Chronicles setting. Mars is terraformed and huge canals irrigate the northern hemisphere. Capitol dominate the world and several landmarks will be added later. I think I shall use some small descriptive icons (like the pipeline) to clarify the landmarks. Do anyone have some advice how to draw polar/ice?

The textures I use to far is some kind of high-res leather texture, and a real vague mars texture. I will make it more red later, but it's kinda hypnotic to the eyes to work with that.

[johnvanvliet]

remap into polar projection
for the northpole and southpole
add a cap

here are the real mars Northpole and Southpole ice caps
North

South



gimp has a nice Distort filter
that remaps a Simple Cylindrical 2 x 1 proportion (ie. 8192x4096) to polar stereographic
used that on the above 23,040 x 11,520 map and cropped

( 2048x1024 resize of the Simple Cylindrical map)

-- this is close to the real color of mars --

[Obbehobbe]

Thanks Johnvanvliet!

I think I got exactly the right feel for the Mars map now, changing the color and making the pencil more vague/smooth.

[Ilanthar]

Yep, colors are fine. What's the more orange/red zone at the equator?

[Obbehobbe]

Thanks Ilanthar! It's the "Great Rust Desert". I'm probably going to label some of the landmarks later in the process.

[Meriba]

Fantastic and useful projections. What misteries are hidden there?

[Obbehobbe]

Another update! I still need to add a border and eventually some minor stuff.



[Some of the icons are made by TheRedEpic]

[Obbehobbe]

Getting slowly there. Left to do is the border. The asteroids on the left and right are Phobos and Deimos, and I will add them into the border later.

[Abu Lafia]

Man, your series of Mutant Chronicles maps is getting better and better. Great work so far. Great idea with the asteroids in the border