The Garnok region of Baldimar

[torstan]

Glad to be of use. I like the way these hammers are coming along.

The forest is a bit heavily saturated compared to the rest of the map. Also it's a little odd to have the connifers individually depicted, but the deciduous tres all in one large clump. Perhaps it's worth looking at a style that has a coniferous forest as one large object? I'd also suggest fading out the white snow area to the north or smudging the edge. At the moment it looks a little bit obvious as a large spraypainted area of white. Perhaps either make it a hard edge and give it a clear reason - an ice shelf for example?

Just some thoughts. All the elements are starting to come together really well. I like the style you've got coming on here.

[Steel General]

...and if you wanted to be silly you could give the leader of the region the title High/Grand Expansipoobahmator

[Robbie]

What happened with this guy? Ya gonna finish it? Those mountains look too good to shelve the project...plus I'd like to see what happens with that forest.

[torstan]

I agree! Definitely continue this.

[jfrazierjr]

What happened with this guy? Ya gonna finish it? Those mountains look too good to shelve the project...plus I'd like to see what happens with that forest.

I took a break to do a few mountain symbols, but I will come back to this. In fact, I played around just the other day and updated it with a tree trunk brush I made. My ADD tends to keep me bouncing from one thing to another, and frankly, I am kind of blocked on how to represent my coniferous forest up north in a style that does not clash with the existing forests. I know I will be using a darker green color for the fill, but the shape and interior "texture" is what is giving me fits.

I also have not had a chance to really sit down and think about locations for the various ruins since this is going to be part of a new campaign and since I am a slacker and it's 2 months off.... I just have not been motivated to get that part done. If nothing else, I will play around with changing the existing short cliff to a nice ice shelf cliff face in the next few days.

[Karro]

My ADD tends to keep me bouncing from one thing to another, and frankly, I am kind of blocked on how to represent my coniferous forest up north in a style that does not clash with the existing forests. I know I will be using a darker green color for the fill, but the shape and interior "texture" is what is giving me fits.

I have a thought on that, though not being near something I can draw with at the moment, I can only offer a description of my suggestion.

Try doing an outline, as you did with the larger forest, but instead of giving the forest outline a smooth and rounded appearance, make it angular and jagged - specifically, with triangular jaggies around the edges that rise to northward-pointing tips, and a series of triangular tips across the northward sides of the forest. Then, on the southward sides, as you do here, paint in a bunch of varied-length tree trunks.

For the interior noise of the forest, go again for a triangular (or inverted-v) motif.

Did any of that make sense?

[jfrazierjr]

I have a thought on that, though not being near something I can draw with at the moment, I can only offer a description of my suggestion.

Try doing an outline, as you did with the larger forest, but instead of giving the forest outline a smooth and rounded appearance, make it angular and jagged - specifically, with triangular jaggies around the edges that rise to northward-pointing tips, and a series of triangular tips across the northward sides of the forest. Then, on the southward sides, as you do here, paint in a bunch of varied-length tree trunks.

For the interior noise of the forest, go again for a triangular (or inverted-v) motif.

Did any of that make sense?

I tried that the other night(just in a like 5 minutes), just that outline part and honestly did not like the way it looked. I will get back to it before to long....

[Karro]

Ah, well, if it doesn't work it doesn't work; but in my mind's eye it looks good enough to give it a full-on treatment before scrapping it. Well... other than that, I'd have to ruminate to think of an alternative.

I don't think the "individual tree" effect, though, will work well with the large forest field clump that you have going here. Good luck on making something work, either way!

[RPMiller]

See Joe... I told you that is what you should do.

[Steel General]

I think your conifer forest is great, even better than the deciduous (sp?) you originally did. Would it be worth it to try and create a similar brush for it?