Dark text with a glow/stroke?
Or white text with a dark glow/stroke
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Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Cool map, it looks great. But I don't get an overriding feeling that its placed inside the whale. And I don't have any ideas about how to make it more so. Its been a topic that's come up several times for a challenge to make a map inside a big creature but that's the basic problem is that its had to make it look like its inside.
Well in any case, it looks great and is going to do well in voting for sure.
Need more slime and mucus. Of course I've never drawn slime or mucus so I wouldn't know how to go about making it look good
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RobA, is that Steven punching his way out ?
Here's the latest iteration with a bit of labeling and overall color adjustments, etc. This will most likely be the entry, unless I get a lightening strike of inspiration in the next few days.
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Short of RobA's genius isometric cutaway idea, I can't think of much of anything at this point either that would help reinforce the location. All I can think of would be to do some kind of larger scale image with an inset of some kind. Or... could go a completely other direction with it - stop shooting for pseudo-realism with all the textures and effects and make up something that looks like it theoretically could've been drawn on a filthy scrap of sail canvas with a broken pencil stub by a man with a LOT of time on his hands.
I'm pretty happy with how this map developed so far. And again, thanks to all for the kind words, critique, suggestions, and inspiration.
The DM in me looks at this map and wants to start populating it with sightless albino ship rats and thirty-foot flatworms in the intestines. Clustered ramshackle huts on the spongy beaches where survivors huddle around smoky campfires of damp wood. Men hunting the rats with broken oars and harpoons, dragging nets through the upper stomach for the rare live fish or sunken barrel of fresh water or wine.
Could be a fun setting to use at some point in the future.
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Ok, thats bloody brilliant!!
And I love the names too. The GM in me so wants to punish.. err i mean.. run some players through this. it's great!
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Neat stuff here, about the only thing I think it may need is some softening of the shadows and transitions between 'terrain types'. They seem a little hard-edged.
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They're both really nice...not sure which version I like more though!
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