"World Map" of Suróthill

[Ilgoth]

Just finished the first map for my own fantasy world Suróthill. It’s illustrated through human society that is located in the continent of Tahl-Ulrun. Humans know about the two neighboring continents, but haven’t explored them properly due their hostile creatures and I tried to integrate that to those two. For example Ifris is depicted as long mountain range covering it shoreline and the other side has “endless” forest spanning through the land, even though this isn't actually true.

It is my first completed digital map, as before this I’ve only done pen&paper maps. Throughout the work, I was looking and searching my own suitable style and this brought me with smallish perspective error with forests. I decided to leave it like that and learn from the error, hopefully to avoid it with my next map.

Two days ago I finished the black & white version, and today I finished the colored version, which I originally didn’t plan to do… guess motivation fairy visited my house. ^^ I like clean and simple styles, so I didn’t do too much of color blending and texturing.



Feedback is always welcome. Next map will be more in-detail map of Tahl-Ulrun.  I myself find a lot of space for improvement in typography and could always aim for fancier frames.

EDIT// Done in the newest version of Adobe Photoshop