I quite like that first one, nice job.
I quite like that first one, nice job.
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)
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re: In need of criticism
Ok. Your feet are too big and I think you better wash your hands.
Why don't you tell us what you were trying to achieve with the maps. I like them but I don't really know what you were aiming at. Are they supposed to be aged and battered?
The look a little like they are each two layers - a cleaner paper landmass on a grunge background. I think they'd be cool as a sculpture of balsa\parchment on dirty blue metal.
Sigurd
PS. I dont know about your feet but I think we all should wash our hands.
Last edited by Sigurd; 11-20-2009 at 10:51 PM.
Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.
--- Sigurd
I like the style, and the very saturated blue. The black level of the mountains appears to be a little darker than the trees; I think it would look better if the mountains were lightened just a little bit.
The compass rose doesn't really match the rest of the map. Also, I'm not sure about orienting the directions as you did adds anything to the map. It's confusing and doesn't convey any additional information, so I'd leave all the letters upright.
Be careful that your labels don't intersect with other lines of similar color, as that reduces legibility.
Nice work, I hope you keep at it!
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
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