Umbraland Map
Warning: Major, MAJOR, MAJOR Work in Progress
Umbraland is a fantasy setting I'm always working on. Some time ago, I posted to WIP maps of the entire continent, but as of late have settled on a particular region to focus on.
Now, I'm working on a map done in the old-paper, hand-drawn style. It's full size is 40" x 30" at 300dpi, so the one you see here is at about a 25%.
And just in case any one wants a scale reference before the scale gets put up, the border-boxes are equal to 10 leagues, or 30 miles.
There's a ton of work to be done here, so I'll try and give a rough outline of what I'm looking to do:
I. Map Design
1. Mountains & Hills (Trying to find a style I like)
2. Rivers
3. City & Town Icons
4. Land, Sea, & Desert textures (maybe, maybe not)
II. Map Elements
5. Typography for Settlements, Minor & Major Geographic features
6. Legend
7. Nation Icons (Planning on psuedo-arms & other crests)
8. Border (since the "Lunar Web" is a big part of the world, I want to use a spider-web themed design on the border)
III. Finishing Details
9. Distorting (Need to run some displacement filters to keep the straight edges from looking too straight)
10. Fading & Aging (giving the text some wear & tear)
11. Paper Texture (what I've got right now is just a merged together layer on 80% overlay. I plan on going back and tweaking it)
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