Voradin WIP

[Tom_Cardin]

Another forest cleanup pass. Adjusted some colors in the forest and changed the river bevel a bit.

[Ramah]

Loving the shadowing on the forest. You can really sense the elevation changes under those trees. No more sandy patches so that's great.

Rivers look good but I liked them before anyway.

[Gandwarf]

The forests have improved A LOT!
Looking much better now and I already liked the trees very much.

[Steel General]

I like the overall map, but the forest colors just don't work for me. When I think evergreen forests I picture deeper, darker greens - these seem to have a bit to much blue/aqua in them.

[LonewandererD]

The cleanup on the mountains was great but i do agree with Steel General in that there seems a bit too much blue in their colour. Also, on some of the mountains you have painted small strips of forests but they're too blurred and so they don't really look like trees, but the could just be me.

Great work.

-D-

[Tom_Cardin]

Ramah - Thank you! Still lots more clean up to do on the forest edges, but I am getting happy with the look.

Gandwarf - Thank you! I did some research when I recolored my trees this time to be sure they were closer to the type of forest I was imagining.

Steel General - There are a lot of colors in forests out there. I researched thru pictures till I found a sample that I thought served my forests well. I wasn't able to copy the shade 100% due to the overlay nature of how I applied the forest so that the elevations of the mountains would show thru, but I think I got close to my reference.

LonewandererD - Still more cleanup to do but for the blue in the forest I picked a reference from real life. I found this picture that had the type of trees I wanted and had an atmospheric quality that I felt suited my world well. So yeah there are a bunch of possible colors of forest, even the same forest at different seasons is colored vastly different.

My reference for color:

[Ramah]

That photo at full size looks kinda old and faded. Depending on film stock and developing procedures etc. that still may not be a true representation of how that forest really looked.

Still, I don't mind the colour anyway. I know you don't like it when I say this, but I still see it as kinda cartoony and part of that is down to the colour.

[Tom_Cardin]

Ramah - thats quite all right =) I am still trying to find my way to the look I want. This may be a WIP for a looong while hehe.

[Tom_Cardin]

finally a new update. lots and lots of little tweaks to things. Cities and roads added. About all that is left is labelling and borders...whew. I have already put in about 3 times the amount of time in this that I did with my Wilderlands of Lords map.

[Jaelyn]

I really like the mountains and the forest texture. I don't mean to nitpick, but I noticed that the climate changes seem to indicate that this region lies in the northern hemisphere, which would seem to indicate that your western river should drain to the south, not north. Just saying... :) It looks awesome though, I hope I develop that kind of skill. I'm barely working on my first digital map, so feel free to ignore me completely lol.