I love the vintage look. You pulled off the aged parchment look to perfection. Love the wax seal, it was a very nice touch!

Quote Originally Posted by a2area View Post
I decided that this map deserves a thread of its own.

This was inspired by the recent Schwari map style at this thread which some of you probably already saw here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...HWARI-Maloumba.

After seeing the Schwari scroll next to the blue national map (below left) it was obvious to me it needed some attention. I tried to give it an old style but unlike the hand-drawn scroll this map would have been printed and then colored by hand. Don't pay much heed to the blue map it's there for before & after comparison using the same data and putting it through "the treatment" in photoshop.