Vehlymahr

[J.Edward]

The painting of the texture.

THW

The texture is painted in photoshop. Most of it is done with a basic hard round brush and then blended with a blender brush.
I use a multiply layer for dark features and a softlight layer for highlight features.
I have a texture brush i made for getting just a bit of rougher unevenness in there.

Yeah, I totally dig this map. I really love that you've asked this map to answer questions beyond, "What are the geospatial relationships?" Though it's not always necessary, I always appreciate a map that feels like it came out of the world it is depicting a part of, and answers things like, who made it, and what was it used for.

Annotated maps for the win!

cheers,
Meshon

Thanks Meshon
I am trying to do more maps that have the feel of being 'from' the world not just about the world.
I do think the annotations help a lot in getting that feel.