Yeah. These are sharp. The town layouts look very plausible. Have some rep.
I've had some success bringing my scans into Photoshop and placing them on top of the layer stack with a blend mode of Multiply. I've also found that it helps to save some selections to confine my painting (land, water, buildings, forest, whatever).
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Here's another. I changed the style a bit to speed up the drawing process; for a finished product I like to keep the individual-tree style but these sketches don't merit it. I purposefully left this one unlabeled so I can play with it in Inkscape. Enjoy!
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"Good teachers love inquisitive students."
"Great societies demand quality conversation."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
Btw... I forgot to say in my last post... really wonderful maps you are posting here.
I'd love to have a crack at a city map and I'm sure I will do soon as soon as I get past the irrational fear of doing one. Hehe.
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My Cartographer's Guild maps: Finished Maps
More maps viewable at my DeviantArt page: Ramah-Palmer DeviantArt
OK, so this one isn't a town-city map, but it does belong to this series. This is a quick inked map of the region the settlements come from.
Last edited by psyekl; 11-16-2009 at 04:15 PM.
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"Good teachers love inquisitive students."
"Great societies demand quality conversation."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
Well it seems that after all when you got imagination and an nicely worked setting going on, all you need is a pencil and a paper!
Very nice maps. If all DMs could come up with something like this in mere minutes...Well, life would be easier!
Excellent!
The area map was created in a few hours, but I've had the region that it represents mapped out on 17"X22" vellum for years; I simply referenced it to free-hand the smaller version.
What enables me to whip out the settlement maps so fast is the availability of my older work to use as reference. I never throw out any of my older sketches (well not any that were good enough to be used), and the past designs provide excellent inspiration. You'd be amazed what new maps you can come up with just by changing the orientation of the compass and shifting a road here and a building there
Check out my works and download free samples at https://www.patreon.com/ierdesign
"Good teachers love inquisitive students."
"Great societies demand quality conversation."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
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