I'll add my welcome here as well! Will you do some extraordinary work. I love the clay maps that you produce. That is an entirely unrepresented medium here and I have to say one that really stands out. Beautiful work!
I'll add my welcome here as well! Will you do some extraordinary work. I love the clay maps that you produce. That is an entirely unrepresented medium here and I have to say one that really stands out. Beautiful work!
FROZEN BITTEN INTERIOR OF BC!
Come now, ain't that cold in Kamloops right now! I'm originally from Prince George and I think it gets colder there!
But welcome to the Boards! I live in the Sunny Lower Mainland now myself!
Glad to have you aboard!
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
Will--It's great to have you here. I came across your old site some time ago and yoinked oh, about a dozen or more of your works to place in my "awesome references" folder. (In fact, last May I posted you here at the Guild as a "recommended resource"; see http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=538)
So glad you're here--and your enthusiasm for both the genre and this site thrills me. Welcome!
Don
My gallery is here
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"Keep your mind in hell, but despair not." --Saint Silouan [1866-1938]
Thank you for the warmest welcome I’ve ever had on a forum! I’ll certainly have to let fellow artists and some of my client publishers about this joint. Meanwhile I am going to spend a few hours checking out all the amazing maps your members have created. Truly a renaissance in cartography has emerged here.
I have a bunch of maps that I didn’t get to add to my site, due to time constraints and ongoing work on them, but seeing what’s been going on here, I think I will revisit that section of my portfolio. Map illustration makes up about a quarter of all the work I do for RPG companies.
I wonder, does anyone here do maps for novels? You know, those little ink things in the front of most fantasy books.
Anyhow, thanks again for the reception, now, to cruise about the site...
Regards,
Will
PS. No, it’s not that frosty in Kamloops just yet, but we live in the mountains outside and the frost has killed most of our garden so far this year. Prince George, B.C., which is considerably further north, gets more severe winters for sure.
William McAusland aka Mutant Lord
Author, Artist and Publisher
web site http://www.mutantepoch.com
"The Mutant Epoch is about humankind's attempt to reclaim some semblance of civilization, calling upon its best and boldest to uncover the lost knowledge and power of the old ones."
There is huge room for improvement for many of the maps typically found in the flysheet of novels. One gets the impression that they are usually afterthoughts or drawn by the writer.
I'll chime in with a welcome as well, Will!
And I agree with Ravs that many of those flysheets come across as afterthoughts. I think that in come cases a novels is written without map in mind, then one is scribbled at the last moment because it is expected
And I must say, your clay (polymer clay?) maps (or more correctly, landscapes?) make beautiful textures (especially the mountains) that I have yet to seen well done in a 2D graphic package
Care to mention your setup for photographing them?
-Rob A>
For the big 3d hand crafted maps I used to get a photographer friend to shoot them with his Nikon D70, with just one light source so that the cast shadows from hills and mountains are more authentic. Although... if a planet was in a binary star system, I guess setting up two lights, near each other, would be correct.
I now have a D70 SLR digital camera and have tried my own photography, but my lighting system indoors is inadequate so I shoot outside in the early evening, around 7pm in the summer, to get a natural, warm light.
Once I get the map into Photoshop I clean up any errors in the painting process (I use acrylics), tweak rivers, and whatnot.
I think the next time I do one of these sculpted maps I will photograph all the steps and materials and post it here someplace to show how I do it. producing them is one of my favorite creative endeavors and I hope I get some more assignments for them soon.
Thanks everybody for the kind words and welcome.
I've contact my friend at The Geek Gazette to check this site out for a potential article. Check them out at: http://geekgazette.tripod.com/ ... drop them a line and tell them Will sent you.
William McAusland aka Mutant Lord
Author, Artist and Publisher
web site http://www.mutantepoch.com
"The Mutant Epoch is about humankind's attempt to reclaim some semblance of civilization, calling upon its best and boldest to uncover the lost knowledge and power of the old ones."