[Illustrator] Randland

[torstan]

Looks great so far.

[Midgardsormr]

A simple rose created for this map. This image is licensed CC SA.

By the way, the map as a whole (when finished) is available for personal use only, due to the copyrights held by the Robert Jordan estate and Tor Books.

[Midgardsormr]

The elevations are all done. I've turned off the mountains I made earlier because they don't quite match the elevation details at the moment. I think I've taken care off all the discontinuities in the contours and made sure all the rivers are running downhill and crossing the contour lines at right-angles.

Of course, you probably wouldn't be able to see any of those things at this resolution, but the finished map will be poster-sized. The neatline is actually smaller than it appears here. I forgot to fix the stroke widths when I resized.

Next step: more city icons. When I'm all done, I'll post up my symbol library and png versions of the icons.

Once again, criticism and suggestions are welcome.

[Ruedy]

Sehr schön, great map!
I like this wonderfull border.

[Midgardsormr]

Well, I wish I could take credit for the border, but in truth, it's just a pattern brush that comes standard with Illustrator.

I haven't really explored the creation of pattern brushes yet, but some of the ones that come packaged with CS3 look quite useful for mapping. For instance, it's got railroad tracks--lay down a path, stroke it with the brush, and you've got an instant railroad. It gets a little funky if you're not careful with your curves, but for the most part it looks great. There's also a banner pattern that would be nice for a simple cartouche. And, of course, the border patterns are useful, as can be seen here.

In any case, thank you for the compliment. There will be another update later today, I'm sure.

[Midgardsormr]

As promised, here's the latest update, and my city symbol library, which is in Adobe Illustrator format. I'll get the individual symbols done up in png later on.

This should be a much larger image, so you can see all those icons--they're rather tiny.

[Midgardsormr]

This it the almost finished product. The only things I have left on my list are the scale bar and a little bit of padding for the text.

If I get really brave, I might add some ornamentation, redo those shaded relief mountains (currently removed), and put on a graticule.

So, what needs improvement? Be nit-picky; this is going in my portfolio, so I want it to be as impressive as possible.