City of Four Strong (Beaufort, South Carolina)

[Gamerprinter]

Here's a hand-drawn isometric map I just completed for a first time publisher from Beaufort, South Carolina. The significance of the location is this is an alternate community of English settlers inter-married with the indigenous population, and the surrounding terrain (islands, rivers, near the sea) is accurate to the real Beaufort, South Carolina - with an alternate community at it's place called the City of Four Strong. Fort Strong acts as the local defenses, and the shipping villages of Sea Green and Driftwood. I used a 3D program to create the communities to accurately depict the perspective view. Of course I use Xara Desiger Pro x11, and hand-drawn work to create this map.

GP

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[Voolf]

Very nice drawing GP. It is nice to see hand draw map from you for a change .
I guess you used bevel on the forest with Xara? I would rather see a subtle shade and light draw by hand. This bevel gives the forest a little strange look. Especially the upper light part. Other than that, great map.

[ace.lo]

I've always liked the idea of using 3D modeling to set up buildings, and it it looks great here! I'll second the beveling on the forest looking a little strange -- sort of plasticy. It looks like you used bevel to much less jarring effect elsewhere, so potentially the forest could be no more weird with some settings tweak. I think the white shine is what's getting me. Trees aren't usually that shiny.

Which isn't to say I don't like this overall. I especially like the line quality.

[Ilanthar]

Nice map GP, I particularly like the city!

[Gamerprinter]

Really my large format scanner that is connected to my large format inkjet printer had a mechanical problem and I spent over $1000 getting it repaired - now I have a scanner to use, so I've finally created a hand-drawn map of this scale again. There are things I can do to lessen the shine in my beveled shapes, but the publisher loved it and asked for no changes, so this is the final version.