A tentative attempt at hemispherical map

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Thanks Ascension. It took a lot of time playing with making tiled patterns and then using those with brushes. I'd never made a pattern before so it was somewhat frustrating getting it to look descent.

Once I had the pattern and a descent brush, applying the woodcut effect was only a matter of painting it on to a layer below the land. Tedious but not difficult.

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Also, a minor update, now with preliminary mountains and major rivers. The mountains were drawn in photoshop, then made into a brush and played with to get their current shape and size.

I'll probably re do them (adding more mountain icon variants and so on), and the rivers are really just place holders till I try to draw them in with the aid of a tablet. But, all things considered, I'm pretty happy with the way this version is shaping up

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Update to the woodcut draft maps. Now with light politics!

I think I might need to reduce the opacity of the mountains for this, but this is more of a style test than a final map.