This is nice...a real painterly look. More rep comin yer way. All I can really think of is maybe tighten up the brush strokes in the icy part to resemble the mountains a bit more. The big bold strokes kind of clash with the detail of the forests...an interesting idea to be sure and I commend ya for the thought, but maybe a wee bit more detail in those empty areas. I'd have to see it though, it might not work out so well and I could be barking up the wrong tree
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That last map is gorgeous!! Have some rep
I love the double meteor craters. It brings sooo many possibilities to mind
Good work
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I like the fact that your map looks like it was really handpainted. I also find myself a crater fan.
That's a striking style. Great job!
More Details to the Home Country
Folks may remember that I put a link to the map of Istarnia which i have at my Obsidian Portal site...
...that was just done quickly so I could get the game going. This big bad boy of a map is supposed to be my serious map for the world...
so i had done almost no work on the small portion of the map that is Istarnia.
Now I have started to flesh out the details of the places the PC's have been.
The Dwarf, Dulkas, is from the Thundercap Mountains. Glawen the Elf is from the Spearwoods. Chen and Bronwyn are from Braefield. And the mysterious Coryn is from the Eladrin city of Solaerithus.
You can see Athendirth, the canyon formed in an ancient battle between Corellon and Tiamat. Pelor's wall, the Towers of the Sun, and the plateau of the High Country are coming along. Mere Illestra and the Isle of Tears are not labeled, but you can see them.
I'd say it is coming along, but we shall see what the resolution looks like when I load this close up shot.
Phil
Wow.
Great maps. It is fun to see a unique yet cohesive style.
Some minor preferences/comments from a noob:
-I personally like the original paint swirls in the ocean from the first map or two. They very effectively suggested currents, but consistently so within your style.
- LOVE the old-school hex grid! It brings me back to Krynn, circa 1998
- Attractive mountains, too.
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2 things: awesome colors, great painted feel, wonderful to look at but...there seems to be some sort of pattern throwing my eyes all akimbo. Do more please
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.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
If I understand correctly Ascension doesn't really like the pattern though.
Anyway, I like the map. And I don't see a nipple in the Shadowlands. Maybe your girlfriend got issues?
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Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Road Map
I have started to work on roads... putting them mostly into the valleys of the land...
I will later decide which are major roads and which are more foot trails - because this seems like a lot of roads to me so far...
i am focussing on the area just east of the craters, as that will be where i am starting a children's series of fantasy novels - while i am running at D&D game in the same world....
should be fun
phil
This is very nice, it even reminds me of soft watercolor illustrations you could find in a children's book.
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