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    Guild Artisan Hoel's Avatar
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    Beautiful!
    Are you hand drawing or is it vector (CC)?
    I like the coloring and the coastlines, but your rivers need some work to fit with the rest. I'll keep a look out for the finished map!

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    This looks really nice and it also appears that that I gotta break out my grunge brushes and dirty up my tutorial map.
    If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hoel View Post
    Beautiful!
    Are you hand drawing or is it vector (CC)?
    It's Mostly Raster, but some elements (i.e. rivers) will be done with Vectors.

    Currently I'm still trying to figure out the best way to draw the Rivers. I think that best will be creating them just by stroking a very thin, black line (just like they're shown examples). How do You think? Maybe You got a better idea?

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    Ok. After a short break, another WIP of my works.
    For this moment I've completely stopped improving rivers and mountains, and I've put some emphasis at the 'political' side of my project. Currently, I'm developing the political borders.

    Country names are based on quasi-russian ones,
    the map legend - both flags are made (and 'invented') completely by myself, the text means:
    Panstwo = State (a big totalitarian confederation of smaller Provinces - at map - all countries signed with 'yellow')
    Cesarstwo Poludniowe - South Empire - the last existing remnant of enormous empire, that was in lead of those terrains in past (after the secession, the North Empire completely subdivided and disappeared).
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