Well, everyone else has already said everything so I'll just chime in to say I like the way you did this piece and to say congratulations on the completed commission work.
Thank you!
Thanks, I drew inspiration from the forests on some of his work, so he deserves credit here.
Thanks Max. Yeah I agree. I'll spend a bit more time on the coast lines in my next map.
Thank you!
Thank you kindly. Yes the client did come up with the names (in fact he's a linguist by trade). Oops, that was a typo, thanks for catching it. I'll have to send my client an amended version.
Thanks.
I'm glad to here it.
Thanks. Yeah I too felt that there were large expanses of emptiness that could have had more detail added. I asked my client about this and whether there were any other terrain features he wanted added, but he didn't mention any so I just kept the expanse empty.
Thanks for the advice and encouragement everyone!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Well, everyone else has already said everything so I'll just chime in to say I like the way you did this piece and to say congratulations on the completed commission work.
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Absolutely gorgeous work, Arsheesh. I rather like the empty spaces. They work well with the cool colour palette and give the impression of wild unpopulated lands, ready for adventure!![]()
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Fantastic piece, Arsheesh! The subtle color palette and shadings is gorgeous. I'm a bit bothered by the coasts : I mean, I love the shadings but it's a bit strong for a map of this scale I think (like if there was cliffs a bit everywhere).
A very fine map!
Awesome map! The forests & mountains are really cool!
While i really dig the style (very good mountains, good forests as well), it looks too empty to me. It looks like an unfinished map. Now i admit, all that might be intentional (Edit: and it seems it is)
Do we even know if it is supposed to be bleak, cold and windswept plains?![]()
And now i am wondering what kind of rpg that is/will be![]()
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A bit late to the party here, but a solid looking map here Arsheesh!
In some ways the less detailed coastlines just add to how sparse the land is and have a strange jarring affect. (Though I'd still prefer more detailed ones I think)
The map makes me shiver though, not just at how cold it looks, but also at those creepy, deformed feet-like shapes you have for the islands in the top right!They do look great though!
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Thanks very much!
Glad to here it ChickPea.
You have a point Ilanthar. This was a latter addition because the map felt a little flat and two dimensional. The coastlines was a bit of experimentation to try to give it more depth. I'll have to play around with this a bit more and see if I can figure out a way give future maps more depth while simultaneously keeping them more true to scale.
Thanks so much Sapiento.
Thank you.
I don't know a whole lot about the RPG myself. In this part of the world though the coastline surrounding the Me Mievnoke Sea is the cradle of civilization. There are a handful of smaller towns and settlements spread out along the river-ways, and a few up in the Northlands as well. However from what I gathered the rest of the a land seems to be wilderness.
Thanks GLS!
Thanks again everyone for all the encouragement and advice.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Wow ! A wonderful work. I especially love the long shadows cast by the hills on the plains. It's almost as if the sun was forever setting, some sort of arctic eternal twilight. I really love it !